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T ALIE GRiSSOM V Grissorn Wriaht Successful Team Enjoy Relationship Termed Unusual Leading Trainer Owns Fourth Interest in Popular Stable Shan Pac Their Derby Hope HopeCHURCHILL CHURCHILL DOWNS Louisville Ky May 3 rT Alie Grissoin and Vester R Tennessee Wright the owner and trainer of Shan Pac respectively enjoy an un ¬ usual and unusually successful relauon ship Tennessee the countrys leading trainer last year with 177 wins to his cred j it owns a fourth interest in the Grissom horses which of course gives him some ¬ thing more thana rooting interest in their fortunes fortunesEight Eight Years in Racing RacingGrissom Grissom a JDetroit automobile dealer has been in racing about eight years His brother Feme a noted owner and breeder was the first member of the family to be ¬ come interested in the sport sportSome Some years ago Grissom hired a young Tennessean as a groom and eventually the groom Tennessee Wright became a foreman of one of the divisions of the sta ¬ ble Alie Grissom liked the way he handled himself and the horses in his care and when he decided to start a stable of his own he hired Tennessee as his trainer trainerGet Get av man with more experience Wright told Grissom but Alie insisted and Tennessee proved that lie knew what he was doing Wright demonstrated a golden touch with thoroughbreds and in 1955 was second leading trainer of America with 128 winners Last year he hit the top and is likely to stay there thereGrissom Grissom a native of Kentucky went to school in the Blue Grass country and then got a job with the A P Tea Co with whom he was associated for 15 years Even ¬ tually he went to Detroit where he opened a Chevrolet agency and has done well in business ever since sinceA A tall taciturn man Grissom goes to toContinued Continued en fage SO D Grissom and Wright Make Up Successful Turf Team TeamContinued Continued from Page 45 D Dthe the Keeneland Sales each year and buys a lot of yearlings for Tennessee to train He also buys some stock from his brother Femes Duntreath Farm FarmWright Wright who lives hard works hard plays hard and bets hard was brought up on Mrs John Branhams Foxland Hall Farm in Gallatin Tenn where his father was farm manager He quit school when he was 12 to go on the race track as a groom returned to the farm after a year or two to assist his father in the farm management managementIn In his late teens Tennessee was a noted jumping rider around the Nashville circuit and also worked with show horses a bit At 20 he enlisted in the Air Force served a fouryear hitch during the war and re ¬ turned to civilian life as a plumbers ap ¬ prentice vBut his first love was the horses He got a job with Perne Grissom and started ou the road to a highly successful career
