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Clancy replied, “Heck no, a trainer’s got to have some excuse for his horse not winning. Leave it up, and he’ll just say the horse looked at that tent...”
In 1956, Liz Tippett owned a good horse named Corn Husker. That fall he won a stakes race over hurdles at Belmont Park and the following winter, the $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap.
“I ran him over hurdles,” said Mrs. Tippett, “just because I wanted to win this thing, because I liked this guy that the race was named for — Louie Stoddard, a close friend of mine. The race was his memorial, and was run at Belmont Park. Then I sent Corn Husker to Charlie (Whittingham) and Charlie said, “Well, my God, don’t send me any jumpers or hurdle horses, I don’t want any of those kinds of horses’.”
Corn Husker wasn’t the first ’chaser to win the rich Santa Anita Handicap; Azucar got the chore done easily in 1935 the first time the race was run. He was a stakes winning ’chaser in 1933-34. in New York.
The colorful sports announcer Haywood Hale Braun did the commentary at the Colonial Cup one year for WOR television in New York and noted, “In a day when flat racers of modest accomplishment are always collecting $100,000 for some newly created Podunk Derby, steeplechase horses, who eat just as much, are competing in races of large tradition and small reward.”
Thank goodness!
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