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GALLANT FOX Winner of 1930 renewal the Sir Gallahad III stallion is the theoldest oldest Derby victor still alive Not One Derby Winner Still Racing Fourteen Victors in Famed Churchill Classic Are Living Hill Gail Who Scored in 1952 Was Retired Last Week Gallant Fox Oldest OldestCHURCHILL CHURCHILL DOWNS Louisville Ky April 30 Not one of the 14 Kentucky Derby winners still alive remains in train ¬ ing Hill Gail who gave Calumet Farm its unprecedented fifth Derby victory in 1952 was retired from competition only last week at Bay Meadows to complete the circle Mrs Gene Markey ordered trainer H A Jimmy Jones to scratch him out of an overnight race at Bay Meadows and end his racing career careerApparently Apparently this is something of a record snce at least two winners of the Run for the Roses usually are to be found racing in the older division each year The 14 Derby victors either are serving as stallions at breeding farms throughout the country or have been retired as pensioners pensionersOldest Oldest living of all 14 previous Derby winners is Gallant Fox who won the big race for Belair Stud in 930 On January 1 1954 Gallant Fox reached his 27th birthday at Arthur B Hancocks Claiborne Farm near Paris Ky Gallant Fox who was foaled at Claiborne in 1927 being bred by the late William roodward became the biggest money winner ever owned by Bel air He was the seconr1 horse to win the Triple Crown the first was Sir Jarton in 1919 1919Gallant Gallant Fox Retired to Claiborne ClaiborneFollowing Following his racing career Gallant Fox was returned to Claiborne where he en ¬ tered stud in 1931 He was retired from service in 1952 after being bred to only one mare Early this year William Woodward Jr who took over the operation of Belair after the death of his father last fall planned to send Gallant Fox to Belair Stud in Maryland to spend the remainder of his life However these plans were altered and Gallant Fox remained a Claiborne as a pensioner pensionerSecond Second oldest among the surviving Derby winners is Omaha a son of Gallant Fox Omaha also was bred raced and retired by Belair Foaled in 1932 Omaha was in the first crop of foals by Gallant Fox and won the 1935 Derby Like his sire he also cap ¬ tured the Triple Crown CrownOmaha Omaha also entered the stud at Clai ¬ borne after his retirement from racing which included a fouryearold campaign in England From Claiborne Omaha was removed to New York where he sered as a sire for a number of years He later was sold to Nebraska interests and the ISelnir product now stands rt the Nebraska City farm of Grove Porter a member of the Nebraska Racing Commission CommissionBold Bold Venture Now 21 21Bold Bold Venture who carried the silks of Morton L Schwartz to triumph in 1936 now is 21yearsold Purchased more than a decade ago by Robert J Klebergs King Ranch Bold Venture now is standing at the King Ranch Farm in Kentucky He is limited to between 10 and 12 mares each year Bold Venture has stood both in Ken ¬ tucky and Texas under the ownership of King Ranch In Texas he sired two win ¬ ners of the Churchill Downs classic As ¬ sault and Middleground thus becoming the only Derby victor to sire two winners of the event eventWar War Admiral second son of Man o War to win the Derby Clyde Van Dusen was the first in 1929 still is a successful sire standing at Faraway Farm outside Lexing ¬ ton Ky where he was born War Admiral who actually will be 20 years old Sunday won the 1937 Derby in Samuel D Riddles colors and is owned by that turfmans estate estateIn In 1938 Herbert M Woolf s Lawrin won at Churchill Downs to give trainer Ben A Jones his first of six Derby victors Follow ¬ ing his racing career Lawrin entered the stud at his owners Woolford Farm thoroughbred nursery in Kansas where he still is serving as a stallion stallionGallahadion Gallahadion carried the racing colors of Milky Way Farm to victory in the 1940 Derby He later was retired to the stud in Kentucky but was sold several years ago to John A Holliday of Edmond Oklahoma OklahomaShut Shut Out and Count Fleet Derby win ¬ ners of 1942 and 43 respectively are standing at their owners Kentucky breed ¬ ing farms Shut Out is located at the Greentree Farm of John Hay Whitney and his sister Mrs Charles S Payson at Lex ¬ ington while Count Fleet heads the breed ¬ ing nursery of Mrs John D Hertz Stoner Creek Stud at Paris Ky KyCount Count Fleet sired Jack J Amiels Count Turf 1951 Derby winner winnerCount Count Turf raced at four and again at five in 1953 He entered the stud at famous Runnymede Farm near Paris Ky this spring springHoop Hoop Jr Fred W Hoopers 1945 Derby winner now stands at Dr Charles E Hag yards farm at Lexington LexingtonAssault Assault first of two winners of the Derby for King Ranch is at stud at that ranchs Continued on Page FiftyOne Fourteen Winners Of Derby Still Alive AliveGallant Gallant Fox Victor in 1930 Oldest Hill Gail Who Won 52 Edition Recently Retired RetiredContinued Continued from Pag Twenty Twentyprincipal principal farm in Kingville Tex He was retired after racing through his sixyear old season in 1948 1948Middleground Middleground like King Ranchs first winner is in stud at the Texas ranch He won the 1950 Derby DerbyMaine Maine Chance Farms 1947 winner Jet Pilot now is a successful sire for Mrs Eliz ¬ abeth Graham mistress of Maine Chaince at Spendthrift Farm near Lexington LexingtonThe The 1948 Derby winner and worlds greatest moneywinning horse Citation was put to stud duty at Calumet Farm in Lexington following his 1951 racing Dur ¬ ing that season Citation ran his earnings to 1085760 to become turfs first mil ¬ lionaire lionairePonder Ponder who gave Calumet two successive successful runnings of the Derby in 1949 entered the stud at that farm after one unsuccessful start in 1951 1951Dark Dark Star last years winner by a head over Native Dancer made his first season at stud this year at Claiborne Farm The Cain Hoy Stable stars racing career was ended last spring in the Preakness in which he broke down while again leading the field including Native Dancer DancerClyde Clyde Van Dusen who won the big race the year preceding Gallant Fox was a California pensioner until 1948 when in ¬ firmities of age made it necessary to have him humanely destroyed destroyedTwo Two Died in 1953 1953Two Two Derby winners died last year They were Brokers Tip last of four Derby win ¬ ners 1933 owned by the late Col E R Bradley and Whirlaway first of four owned by Warren Wright No other owners have owned as many as four winners of the great race Calumet Farm founded by Wright since has won a fifth Derby Hill Gail scor ¬ ing in 1952after the death of Wright WrightBrokers Brokers Tip humanely was put to sleep at the University of California College of Agriculture in early July Brokers Tip pre ¬ viously had entered the stud at Admiral Cary T Graysons larm at Upperville Va He was later sent to the West Coast and became the property of the University of California in 1950 1950Whirlaway Whirlaway died at the breeding estab ¬ lishment of the noted French breeder Mar ¬ cel Boussac on April 6 Whirlaway was bred at Calumet Farm where he was foaled April 2 1938 and represented the first crop of the imported sire Blenheim II He also was the best horse got by Blenheim II in this country Whirlaway established a new track rec ¬ ord when he won the 1941 Derby in 201 His time for the mile and onequarter clip ¬ ped twofifths of a second off the mark set by Twenty Grand exactly ten years pre ¬ viously Following his racing career during which he reached the top as leading money winner of the world Whirlaway was retired to the stud at Calumet He was mated with the best broodmares at the noted nursery but none of his foals approached his stat ¬ ure as a really high class thoroughbred in 1950 Boussac saw the 1941 Derby win ¬ ner and made arrangements to lease him for three years Later after the horse had been taken to France Boussac purchased him outright Whirlaways first French foals will race this year yearAll All Derby winners previous to Clyde Van Dusen and Twenty Grand 1931 Burgoo King 1932 Cavalcade 1934 Johnstown 1939 and Pensive 1944 passed on before last year yearPensive Pensive Calumets Englishbred Ameri ¬ canfoaled winner of the 1944 Derby died in 1949 the year of his sons Ponder Derby triumph
