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...hand at diagnosing "trouble" horses. Seven years ago, Arcaro got an SOS call from Ben Jones in Louisville, four days before the Derby. Whirlaway had Ben worried; he wouldn't go around turns. The more other jockeys fought him, the more he drifted wide. Trouble-shooter Arcaro experimented in a workout; he took a long rein and let Whirlaway follow another horse around the turn. It worked so well that Whirlaway (Arcaro up) won the Derby by eight lengths in the fastest time it has ever been...
...Citation, mahogany-colored wonder horse, wanned up for the Kentucky Derby by winning Havre de Grace's $25,000 Chesapeake Stakes. On his back was Eddie Arcaro, the nation's No. 1 jockey, who hoped Citation would be his fourth Derby winner. The others: Lawrin (1938), Whirlaway (1941), Hoop...
...best, Wright has paid as high as $40,000 for a prize brood mare, once laid down $62,500 for a one-fourth interest in the imported stallion Blenheim II (Whirlaway's daddy). But a basic ingredient in the Wright recipe is his trainers, the Jones boys-old Ben and young Jimmy. Rival trainers sometimes suspect the Joneses of getting results by mirrors and magic. But they are willing to pass their secret on to anybody. Says Jimmy: "You figure not only on a horse's speed, stamina and breeding, but on his personality-they're like...
There were two hot horses in the Brooklyn Handicap last week, and if either won, Whirlaway's alltime money-winning record ($561,161) was sure to fall. Texas-born Assault, a chestnut, the swiftest thing on horseshoes in 1947, needed only $22,591 to catch up with Whirlaway. Stymie, another Texas horse -who usually does better when Assault is not around-needed even less...
Oldtimers could properly say that Assault had overtaken the great Whirlaway with inflated money, for Whirlaway had run in a day when purses were much skimpier than Assault's. But Assault, winner of the Big Three in 1946 (Kentucky Derby, Preakness, Belmont Stakes) and of every race he had entered this year, was still a horse with a future: he is only a four-year-old, and full of run. Before he is retired to stud next year on Robert Kleberg's King Ranch nursery at Lexington, Ky., he may well have earned more than...