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tracks’ heyday, and handled the PR for Fair Hill for many years. An expert handicapper, Kelley just barely tolerated the “jumpers,” but secretly admired them, although he never confessed it.
One spring meet at Fair Hill, a particularly well-bred 4-year-old took the field alongside other maiden chasers and Kelley, glancing at the breeding line in his racing form, complained in a loud voice to members of the press.
“How in the world they can take a horse of that quality and run it around on a lawn to jump over the furniture, is beyond me!”
The late Morris “Pop” Dixon was one of the early trainers to train at home on the farm, ship his horses to a track and run them the same day. He conditioned Polynesian to win the 1945 Preakness Stakes, working with the fractious horse at his southern Chester County, Pa., farm up to race day. As the colt grew in stature in the eyes of the press, Dixon was questioned many times about the amount of work the son of Unbreakable received. Dixon in turn would reply smugly, “Oh, I worked him nine telephone poles this morning.”
“Pop” Dixon trained a host of top steeplechase horses in unison with his flat stable. One morning his two apprentice riders were instructed to school over four flights of fences. Dixon drove out to the schooling field as the two horses left the barn.
The riders broke off at the appointed time and galloped down to the first two flights on the right side
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