The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-05
(Reg. U. s. Pat. OR.) BY JACK GUENTHER
lunlted Press staff Correspondentl

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 New York, Dec. 5.-(UP)-Its Q mighty long way from the bluegrass of old Kentucky to the big green racing plant that sprawlS beneath the Sierra Nevadas out west In California, but Whirlaway has safe- ly arrived at the end of the line. Al. ter his first rest in two years, the Cannorball from Calumet Is back on the track getting ready for the race of his young life.
 That would be the $l0c,000 Santa Anita Handicap, the race in which he can lay claim to the thorough bred championship of all time If he wins Whirlaway goes to the top Of the list as the biggest earner ever bred. And right along with him will go the husky, ruddy-faced Kansan who changed him from Q half-wit to tho greatest horse Of his day.
 I'm speaking of the moon-taced trainer who iS known aB plain Ben Jones. You may have heard of Ben Jones through the newspapers and radio because he is the most easily approached horgetnan on the turf. But unless you've gone out to the racetrack before the sun has risen above the barns you won't have seen him. Tor he iS the old-fash- toned trainer type-he believes in work.
 Never Lost Temper
 Jones wasn't selected as anybody'G man of the year but in mine he is as much entitled to that dubious honor as Joe Louis. Joe DlMagg!o, Bernie Biernan, Bobby Riggs or anyone else you can name. He dor1- mated his profession and he never lost his faith or his temper. You have to know racetrackS to know how rare those qualities are.
 Trainers are mythical figures to the ordinary racing fans--tnen who are supposed to deal In Inside ins formation, who shoot with their horses only when the odds are high and who speak in "dese, dem and doses" fron the side Of their mouths. Well, Ben just doesn't 1t that picture. He's just c big, bluff fellow with c homeSpun humor and infinite patience.
 The latter virtue has made him what he Is today. the foremost trainer n America. He Is Q different type of trainer than are Tom Smith Or Max Hirsch in that he works with dozens Of horses at the same time and has pretty fair horse flesh to pick from. He doesn't win as many races as some other men, but more important, he wins the most big stakes.
 He didn't always do that. For 90 years he was Q "gypSy" aB they say on the tracks, q travelling owner trainer who would swap Q horse as quickly as he would run one. Tn all the years Jones raced his own coI- ors he came up with only one good thoroughbred. That was Q two-year- old named Capt. Seth, and injury killed him of before he turned three.
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 Jones made his first big connec- ton with Woolford Farm and promptly came tip with e Kentucky Derby winner in Lawrin. Two years ago he switched to Warren WrIght's Calumet farm. This luxurious show place had lost s7S0,000 in seven years. This year, led by Jones 1t will show profit Of S200.O0O. If there is any person directly responsible for the change, it's the new man at the head of the Calumet racing string.
 Jones got his second Derby win- ner in Whirly, but before he walked his baby back to the ring to pick up Matt Winn's ribbon of roses he went through an experience that would have stopped Q lesser man. Il his first year, Whirlaway was @ crack-pot who shied every time he reached the stretch. It took all the love Jones had to change him.
 Ben slept with Whlrlaway, talked to him and studied him by the hour. He walked him personally around tracks and led him through paddocls. He built him e special D.ali, tested him with different jockeys and designed him Q one- eyed bllnker, And oil the while this vas going cas Jones regularly