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Painting of One Count, Horse of Year In 1952, to Be Given Jeffordses Today Presentation of Annua I Award* By Daily Racing Form to Take Place at Belmont Park Course BELMONT PARK, Elmont, L. I., N. Y., May 14. — Mr. and Mrs. Walter M. Jeffords will be the guests of honor tomorrow at a luncheon given by Daily Racing Form and The Morning Telegraph in the Turf and Field Club at Belmont Park in recognition of their colt, One Count, being named Horse of the Year for 1952 in the annual champion-determining poll sponsored by these newspapers. A painting of One Count by the noted artist Richard Stone Reeves is to be presented to Mrs. Jeffords, owner of last years crown-holder, by J. Samuel Perlman, publisher. Many of the Easts leading owners, breeders and track executives will attend. It is the sixth such award made by Daily Racing Form and The Morning Telegraph, which has given portraits by Reeves to the late Warren Wright, master of Calumet Farm Armed, 1947, and Citation, 1948; John Hay Whitney and his sister, Mrs. Charles Shipman Payson, joint owners of Greentree Stable Capot, 1949 ; Christopher T. Chenery Hill Prince, 1950 and ► _ Cornelius V. Whitney Counterpoint, 1951. One Count, by Count Fleet — Ace Card, by Case Ace, was bred by Mr. Jeffords, owned by Mrs. Jeffords, trained by Oscar White, and guided to victory last year in the Belmont Stakes by Eddie Arcaro, Travers Stakes by Eric Guerin, and The Jockey Club Gold Cup and Empire City Gold Cup by Dave Gorman, earned a total of 29,925 in winning seven of his 15 races. Mr. and Mrs. Jeffords made a rare exception to one of their long-established rules when One Count began racing. Since 1918, when they embarked on their successful careers as owners, they have had an agreement that he would race the colts and she the fillies. But when Jeffords raced Kiss Me Kate, the champion three-year-old filly of 1951, Mrs. Jeffords "retaliated by sending out One Count in her colors. Although their horses race in individual silks, Mrs. Jeffords colors being pink and yellow and her husbands white and green, they are an inseparable pair on and off the track. Their racing and breeding activities are planned together and each has a voice in campaigns planned for the others horses. Using the Glen Riddle Farm, at Berlin, Continued on Page Three Painting of One Count, Horse of Year In 7952, to Be Given Jeffordses Today Presentation of Annual Award* By Daily Racing Form to Take Place at Belmont Park Course Continued from Page One Md.. as their training base and carrying out their breeding program at the Faraway Farm, in Kentucky, the Jeffords have sent many outstanding horses to the races, including Pavot, who was unbeaten as a two-year-old. In a close relationship with the late Samuel D. Riddle, who was Mrs. Jeffords uncle, the Jeffords success might be traced to Man o War. Mcst of the horses who carried their silks to a long string of notable successes were either the progeny of Man o War or from Man o War mares. Among the stake winners by "Big Red" who raced for the Jeffords were By His-self, Florence Nightingale, Edith Cavell, Scapa Flow. Bateau, Boatswain, and Constitution. Pavot and their good handicap horse, Loyal Legion, were out of Man o War mares. The Jeffords colors were carried to victory four times in the classic Coaching Club American Oaks, by Florence Nightingale, Edith Cavell and Bateau in 1925, 1926 and 1928 and by Creole Maid in 1938. Pavot, a son of Case Ace — Coquelicot, by Man o War. won all eight of his races as a juvenile in 1944. climaxing his campaign with a triumph in the Belmont Futurity. As a three-year-old. he won the Belmont and The Jockey Club Gold Cup. Result Carefully Planned Breeding Carefully planned breeding resulted in One Count being foaled in 1949. By Count Fleet — Ace Card, One COunt is the product of many successful equine generations at the Jeffords Farm. Ace Card, a winner of more than 0,000, is a daughter of Case Ace — Furlough, by Man o War. Furlough, a moderate winner during her racing cam- ; , ■ ! ; [ j . [ . | ! I , . paign, also produced the filly Adile, a stakes winner of more than 26,000. One Count made only three starts as a two-year-old. winning one, and was not rated in the Experimental Handicap. He finished third to Blue Man in the 1952 Preakness, but turned the tables on that colt in the Belmont, and went on to also take the Travers at Saratoga in his following start. He was second to Mark-Ye-Well, to whom he conceded eight pounds, in the Lawrence Realization last year, but wound up his sophomore campaign with rousing victories in The Jockey Club Gold Cup and the Empire Gold Cup. In addition to his racing and breeding activities, Jeffords has been extremely active in other phases of the sport. During his career, he has been a member and served as a steward of The Jockey Club; a member and steward of the National Steeplechase and Hunt Association, and 1 president of the Grayson Foundation, a research group devoted to the study of equine diseases. He also has been an outstanding ; contributor to the National Museum of Racing at Saratoga. In 1950, Jeffords was honored by the ■ Thoroughbred Club of America at its annual dinner for his many contributions to Continued on Page Forty-Six i j 1 Painting of One Count To Be Presented Today Portrait of 1952 Horse of Year J Will Be Given to Jeffordses I Continued from Page Three racing, and in 1952 he received the award t of the New York Turf Writers Association for outstanding services to the sport during the year. c Charles Hattons description of the champion in the 1953 edition of The Amer- £ ican Racing Manual paints a vivid word picture of the hard-hitting colt: j One Count is a rich, dark brown. 16 . hands at the withers, with a very incon- spicuous star and traces of white about his « near fore and hind pasterns. He has a , beautiful top line with a masculine neck, | stout withers, short saddle back, broad i croup and long pelvis. His hind leg is a j thing of beauty, straight about the hocks . like a true stayers, with much leverage from hip to hock. He stands, as horsemen say. with all four legs in a buck, they set , under him so well. . "The Jeffords champion is nearly a typ- J ical Count Fleet, except that he has more ; muscularity about the hind quarters and tibia, or second thigh. He has his sires round, rock-ribbed barrel, well-developed J shoulder muscles and arms. One Count has good rein length and * some of Case Aces quality about the head. His frontispiece did not appear to belong to him as a two-year-old, but he grew up to it, j so to speak. He has a neatly pricked ear, J and a bright, eager eye. His jowls are very deep and flat, more so than one usually sees in three-year-olds. His cannons are short and the bone appears light and flinty, ! rather than heavy and porous. His pasterns are precisely the right length and have the approved angle. The hoofs appear round ] and healthy. In kind, he is a sturdy, masculine animal rather than a picture horse. One Counts disposition is a bit antic at l times. But he is quite the gentleman in his J attitude toward visitors and his handlers. Many stallions incline to be nippy in J training. That he is not a colt who frets unduly is manifest in his appearance in J racing condition. At Belmont, before the J Belmont Stakes, and in Florida, just be- for his reappearance at four, he was as full-bodied as a colt two months removed from fitness for competition. Barring mis- 1 hap, such a performer might further dis- J tinguish himself through several more cam- J paigns before entering the stud." j
