Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-01
WIN, LOSE OR
UKAW By FRANCIS srANN
Devils. Red and Blue

LOUISVILLE MAY 1.-As these lines are written the
majority of the early arrivals ready concede the
82d running of the Kentucky Derby to handsome colt
named Needles The fact that he Florida bred and that
no such horse has the classic great deterrent
Precedent has been broken in the past How many for
stance, thought couple of Mormons with horse called
Swaps would lick Nashua a year ago?
And yet there is Jones and Calumet You haven't
heard much of Calumet for few Eight times Calumet
has had the national championship stabe-194 1943 1914
1885, 947 948 1949 and 1852 1t the only stable
win million dollars in and Calumet topped that
figure four times What the Yankees to baseball the
Browns are to pro football Calumet to racing.
Even in the face of Needles you don't write off Pntor
Lea Fabius only because they Constrained
umetowned colts Moreover Fabus has another credena
He is by Citation.
There those-a minority to be surewho were eye
ing Fabus carefully today the horse reaed for the
Derby Trial These are people who have learned to respect
Trainer Jones and Calumet and who that Plain Ben
apt to play down horse that take it alas he did
Ponder in 1949.
THERE USED TO BE time, 12-year period, in fact
when fashionable and wise to say when in doubt
bet Bradley" This during the when Col. E. R.
Bradeys Idle Hour horses winning four Derbys and
when the Bradley trainer H J. Thompson, became
Derby Dick" First there Behave Yourself 1921
and then Bubbng Over in rs and Bugoo King Brokers
Tip in 80 and '33.
Ben JONES' who has six winners began to nbble
at Derby Dicks title in 1888 He was not training for
Calumet at the time but sadding Lawrn for Herbert
Woof The jockey he boosted Lawrn Eddie Arcaro
and the first of Derby winners for Banana Nose
Three years later, 1941, Jones trained Whirlaway
was called crazy colt because he wide but who
thing of beauty when he ran, nevertheless ouszed
tail sty standing in the wake of his flying hoofs Crazy
he might have been but Wry sped the Derby distance
mile and quarter in 2012s or since
matched that time. He was the first Of the Calumet
Jones winners.
ANOTHER THREE YEARS passed and it was 1914
Jones horse that year was Pensve The avore Stir Up
garnished by Arcaro, but third all the famous rider
and his Greentree mount could get Pensive won by
nearly five lengths.
Now there doubt but what Calumet was the big
stable although Jones ironically had to wait years for
his next Derby champ, who Citation Pot o. Luck
had been second in AS and Fauess third in AZ the
entry of Citation and Coaltown in 48 than made up
for the delay in the Jones schedule Never there
solid entry than Caumets 1t like Ruth and Gehrg
Landy and Bannster Battles Baugh They ran one
two Citation and Coatown and Plain Ben had his fourth
winner Arcaro happy to be aboard, too
There three fouryear wait after Citation and
Coatown The very next year Jones downrated his colt
Ponder and said the experts right when they installed
the Splinter Olympia the favorte guble punters
had confidence Old Rockport Palesnian Capot
Halt and something unframed called Johns JOY But when
Ponder came bouncing the wire to pay $4 they
knew-experts and common players alke-that old Ben
Jones had conned them In nce backwoodsy legal way
NOW PLAIN BEN HAD Ave winners and it was 1852
Hill Calls back on schedule: II had been
three years since Ponder.
They made Hill Gail big favorte naturally because
the Of Bull Lea and Jane Gail Calumet and he
was trained by Jones and he was to be ridden by Arcaro
He won as an -to-0 favorite should win good couple
Of lengths in the nearrecord time of 20 This was one
nth of second slower than Whraway and as fast as
underground ran in 1850.
Jones and Calumet obviously do not send horse to the
Derby simply because he three years old and his entry
fee is paid After Hill Gail there were no Derby horses
whose riders the famed Devils Red and Blue silks
After Hill Gail the Calumet stable dropped to second in
53, fourth in 50 and eighth in IS
Is the magic Of Calumet thing Of the pastq What
Fabus winner Of only two of II as
Needles beat him good In the Famingo although Fabus was
third and got $4,000 On the other hand Ben Jones will
have him Sadded for the Derby barring accident and
BY Bens timetable it's time for another winner.