Word: trainers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Arthur ("Artie") McGovern, trainer of Babe Ruth and Gene Sarazen, operator of a Manhattan gymnasium, where he molds Paul Whiteman and other rotund celebrities into prettier shapes; and Mrs. Ethel Colten; both for the second time; in South Bend...
...Trainer: John...
Chiefly responsible for Peter Astra's superiority is his trainer-driver, sandy-haired, peppery, 40-year-old Hugh Maynard Parshall, called Doc because he has a D. V. M. from a veterinary college. Winning "hoss" races is nothing new to Doc Parshall. A comparative youngster at a job where 20 years' experience is a major requirement, he has been the No. 1 U. S. harness-racing driver for eleven of the past twelve years, has won 763 first places since 1925 (including the Hambletonian twice), has never raced without a kitchen match in his mouth...
...house surrounded by a little white fence on Long Island's Aqueduct racetrack. There he boards and trains horses (not only for Mr. Woodward but for Mrs. Henry C. Phipps, Ogden Phipps and others), has developed more outstanding distance racers in the past decade than any other U. S. trainer. He remembers the habits and mannerisms of all his past charges (about 50 a year), but the one he likes best to talk about is Gallant Fox, his favorite. He likes to tell how, in his first big race as a two-year-old, the pride of Belair?...
...racetracks for over 50 years. Starting as a stable boy at Sheepshead Bay in 1885, he became a jockey soon afterward, rode on the Frying Pan circuit (half-mile tracks), got $5 a ride (when his employers paid off). In the flourishing Nineties, Jim Fitzsimmons became a pee-wee trainer. His big chance came in 1908 when betting was outlawed in New York, the topnotch U. S. trainers flocked to England, and the second-raters got a crack at the juicy training jobs at home...