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RECORD OF GREAT TRAINER H G Bedwell Saddled 1428 Win Winners ners of 1417965 Over Per iod of Twenty Three Years The life history of H G Bedwell Guy as he is better known to turf devotees is an open book Having been the leading American trainer for seven years of his turf career it is natural that much has been written and said about him That he was skillful in preparing horses for racing is borne out by his record To have led the list of trainers for seven years is a demon ¬ stration of skill beyond the ordinary and Bedwell is Bedwell which is to say that he had few equals and few if any superiors superiorsHis His greatest year in point of winners was 1916 when he sent to the post 123 success ¬ ful horses Back in 1909 seven years be ¬ fore he made that brilliant record he saddled 122 winners All together he has trained and saddled 1428 winners during his career which covered a period of nearly a quarter of a century centuryOne One million four hundred seventeen thou ¬ sand nine hundred sixtyfive dollars in stakes and purses have fallen to the horses under his care whether owned by him or by others for whom he trained Probably the most noted of these was J K L Ross The records in the tabulation below cover the years from 1907 to 1929 including two years in which he was inactive 1921 and 1922 1922His His greatest years as a money winning trainer were 1919 and 1920 when 208728 and 175023 respectively represented the in ¬ come from stake winnings and purses In pursesIn recent years he might be said to have slipped using the jargon of the streets to express our meaning The number of win ¬ ners and amount of money won in 1928 and 1929 might be used as a barometer to the increasing age of the skillful trainer Fur ¬ thermore he has been ill which also reflects in his training record However Mr Bedwell has been one of Americas foremost trainers since his entry into racing as the figures below indicate Training record of H G Bedwell Vins Amount 31 18740 01 122 122r r 9 r2 84 S7 81 97 123 CO 51 B 73Dili 73 Dili not train Did not train Totals 1428 Leading trainer for year
