Word: bimelech
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...owners of a dozen or more U. S. race horses could have kicked themselves last week. So convinced were they that Colonel Edward Bradley's Bimelech would make their pets look like plugs, all but seven of the country's top-notch turfmen withdrew their entries for the Kentucky Derby the week before the race. Last week, when 95,000 fans crammed into Churchill Downs to watch Big Bim romp off with America's No. 1 horse race, many a rival owner had already phrased his felicitations to Colonel Bradley, too ill to watch his latest...
During the first mile, Bimelech looked like a champion. He broke fast, caught up with Joseph Widener's fleet-footed Roman. Down the backstretch, he clung to Roman's heels. Coming around the far turn-where races are usually won or lost-Bradley's green & white silks flashed in front. Roman had faltered. It would be a breeze for Bimelech from...
Among railbirds, the favorite for the Kentucky Derby is always called the Big Horse-Mr. Big or Miss Big, as the case may be. Last week Colonel Edward Riley Bradley's Bimelech was tagged Mr. Big and loomed so large that he made Shetlands of a dozen other three-year-olds who will go to the post for the 66th running of the $75,000 Derby at Churchill Downs this week...
...winter, racing fans have been buzzing about Bimelech. Those who saw him race last year could not forget the effortless ease with which he floated in front of his contemporaries, winning all six of his starts-including all three two-year-old classics, Hopeful Stakes, Belmont Futurity and Pimlico Futurity. In the Kentucky Derby future books, more than 50% of the money wagered went on Bimelech's nose...
...Octogenarian Bradley it was an elixir. Winner of four Kentucky Derbies, he has been living for the day when his green & white silks will again "get there the quickest," and thereby establish a record not likely to be broken. In Bimelech, whom he named after the Biblical warrior, Abimelech (dropping the A because it is an old Bradley custom to B-name all horses), Colonel Bradley has great faith...