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Free pinned Ack's layup against the glass and got whistled down for goaltending as the game was deadlocked...
...ack is the color of my true love's co-o-ffee, White is the lump of su-ugar on her spoooooon...
...Ack Ack is a prime example of Whittingham's thesis that the best way to get a horse to run fast is to train him slowly. When the late Publisher Harry Guggenheim entrusted the big bay colt to Whittingham in 1969, the veteran trainer knew he had something special. "Nothing's going to catch Ack Ack at short distances," he said. "The only question...
...four-year-old Ack Ack was fully developed enough to attempt the longer distances, but Whittingham refused to push him. Gradually building the horse's stamina, he ran him in only five races in 1970. All were short distances, and though Ack Ack won four of his five starts, his winnings for the year totaled a meager $59,775. Aware of Ack Ack's money-winning potential, Whittingham's fellow trainers were perplexed at his patience. Said one: "Why the hell is Charlie sitting on that horse? If I had him, I'd race him twice...
Charlie offered his answer in 1971. After Ack Ack finished second in a six-furlong sprint at Santa Anita, he ran longer and stronger with each succeeding race. He won the Santa Anita Derby by 1½ lengths, the Hollywood Express by three, the American Handicap by four. All told, Ack Ack won seven of eight starts and a total of $393,000 in the year. Explaining that "he didn't have anything more to prove," Whittingham and Ack Ack's new owners, Oilman E.E. ("Buddy") Fogelson and his wife, Actress Greer Garson, decided to retire their prize...