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...four-year-old Ack Ack was fully developed enough to attempt the longer distances, but Whittingham refused to push him. Gradually building the horse's stamina, he ran him in only five races in 1970. All were short distances, and though Ack Ack won four of his five starts, his winnings for the year totaled a meager $59,775. Aware of Ack Ack's money-winning potential, Whittingham's fellow trainers were perplexed at his patience. Said one: "Why the hell is Charlie sitting on that horse? If I had him, I'd race him twice...
...Santa Anita Derby by 1½ lengths, the Hollywood Express by three, the American Handicap by four. All told, Ack Ack won seven of eight starts and a total of $393,000 in the year. Explaining that "he didn't have anything more to prove," Whittingham and Ack Ack's new owners, Oilman E.E. ("Buddy") Fogelson and his wife, Actress Greer Garson, decided to retire their prize to Kentucky, where his value as a stud is an estimated...
Cerebral Clicks. A trainer for 39 of his 58 years, Whittingham was raised on a ranch in Otay, Calif., where as a boy he delivered newspapers on horseback. Serving variously as stable hand, exercise boy and horse trader, he came into prominence as a trainer in the mid-1950s, when one of his horses. Porterhouse, defeated the great Swaps, and another, Mr. Gus, upset Nashua...
While most successful trainers work for privately owned stables. Whittingham runs a public operation catering to such diverse horse owners as Florsheim Shoe Heiress Mary Jones and Composer Burt Bacharach. Says Bacharach: "When I got into this game I learned one thing in a hurry: Charlie knows how to wait. He's patient while others push too hard." Known as a man who "trains the owners," Whittingham says: "Owners have a lot of money invested in these horses, so you can expect them to want to have a say in what goes...
...grade-school dropout who earned more than $173,000 last year, Whittingham figures to have another banner year in 1972. He still has Cougar II, one of the top money winners last year ($416,022), as well as such top-rated horses as Daryl's Joy and Turkish Trousers. Though his horses have won more than $12 million over the years, Whittingham says: "I haven't got any special tricks. I just know my horses and treat them as individuals...