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SPORT OF QUEENS
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she says, "but in breeding them and watching them de
velop into champions."
Kelso is an outstanding example of this, she claims.
He was a "scrawny little foal" so unlike a champion that
he was gelded. But Mrs. du Pont and her trainers liked
something about him. "He was always gentle, yet very
alert, as if planning every move," she recalls. A lot of
time, training, and care went into the misfit, and as a
two-year-old experts first noticed the deepening chest
and whippetlike legs of a comer. "But it is really heart
and character that make a champion," Mrs. du Pont says,
"and these are bred into horses like Kelso. The thrill is
in recognizing them and bringing them out."
Another outstanding horsewoman is Josephine Bay
Paul. In 1952 she attended a race at Hialeah with her late
husband, a racing enthusiast. The driving finish so fas
cinated Mrs. Paul that her husband decided they should
have a stable of their own. Two experts, Sherrill Ward
and John Clark, assembled some yearlings, which Mrs.
Paul, much to the annoyance of track announcers, dubbed
with tongue-twisting names of Nordic deities.
It was Mrs. Paul herself, however, who determined to
purchase a truly outstanding filly spotted by Ward. "Let's
get her at any price," she told him.
While at a dinner party, a newspaper reporter called to
tell her that the filly had been purchased for $G3,000, a
record price at the time.
"I suppose he expected me to be surprised," Mrs. Paul
says, "but I wasn't. I knew it was a good investment." It
was: the filly was Idun, who went on to win $290,000.
Such horse sense conies as no surprise to those who
know the gracious, soft-spoken mother of three. When
not keeping track of her horses in America and England,
she serves as president and chairman of the board of one
of Wall Street's major brokerage houses, and she once
headed a vast steamship line.
A mono. THE more celebrated lady stable owners is Liz
. (Whitney) Tippett, something of a madcap in society
circles but a shrewd overseer of her famous Llangollen
Farms, near Upperville, Va. This season, at Palm Beach
and Hialeah, Mrs. Tippett startled society by commuting
in her own fuchsia and orange helicopter "our stable
colors, you know."
The colors have fared well on the tote boards, with such
horses as Gone Fishin' (1958) and Divine Comedy (1960).
Mrs. Tippett has had as many as 300 head on her farms in
Virginia, California, and Florida, and, dressed in faded
Levis and men's coarse shirts, she has kept personal track
of all of them.
Thri.'i.'-year-oM Yorky jjuls (i kiss from owner Mrs. Gene Mar
key uler winning $100,000 U'idener Handicap al Minmih.
The grandes dames of racing are Mrs. Eizabeth Arden
Graham and Mrs. Gene Markey. Their troubles on and off
the track have become racing legends. In the 1958 Fla
mingo, for example, their horses Jewel's Reward and
Tim Tarn, respectively thundered into the stretch in as
thrilling u finish as any movie writer ever conceived. In
the excitement, the jockeys moved their mounts flank to
Hank. They bumped and bumped again in what amounted
to an old-fashioned jousting match.
Tim Tarn stumbled off pace. As 31,000 railbirds shout
ed, Mrs. Graham's Jewel's Reward burst ahead at the fin
ish and was flashed on the boards as winner. Mrs. Graham
marched regally to the winner's circle only to be told
at the last moment that her horse had been disqualified
for jarring Tim Tarn. Smiling, but with tears in her eyes,
she watched the $97,000 purse go to her arch rival.
Both are true sportswomen, though, and used to tri
umphs as well as setbacks. Mrs. Graham bought $280,000
worth of yearlings in 1945, only to lose most of them in a
stable fire the next year at Chicago's Arlington Park.
She started rebuilding with typical determination a de
termination that hasn't always made her friends. "She
fires trainers the way baseball owners fire managers,"
one track official says, disapprovingly. But Maine Chance
returned to the top in the early '50s and now, after an
other slump, Mrs. Graham is again rebuilding with excel
lent German stock.
MRS. makkey's Calumet Farm, once so overwhelming
that some critics thought it was ruining Thorough
bred racing, hasn't recently produced a headliner like Cita
tion or Whirlaway (her all-time favorite) just horses
good enough to make the stable the biggest money win
ner of 19G1. Mrs. Markey holds tight reins over Calumet,
from finances to how a horse's tail should be braided,
but the element of womanhood is ever-present.
Admiral and Mrs. Markey visited a horse auction re
cently and found themselves seated next to Mrs. Charles
Shipman Payson, mistress of Green tree Stables and also
owner of the new New York Mets baseball team. The
ladies fell into animated conversation until a handsome
colt was trotted out. Both called $20,000 bids. "I'm sorry,
Lucille," Mrs. Payson said. "You take him."
Mrs. Markey bid $21,000, then had a change of heart.
"No, he should go to you." So Mrs. Payson lipped to
$22,000 then felt she was being selfish and deferred
again to Mrs. Markey.
The bid-and-bow routine went on to $27,000. Then
Admiral Markey, face flushed with male righteousness,
shouted a curt "$28,000!" and fixed the women in a mal
evolent stare. They fell silent, and the auctioneer knocked
down the colt to Markey.
Then, unperturbed, the ladies resumed their conversa
tion while the Admiral went off to pay an extra $8,000
for a colt he may or may not have wanted.
With her trainer, n crushed Mrs. Elizabeth Arden Graham
hears Jewel's Reward being disqualified in llii; Flamingo.