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...Turf history had ever saddled more than 100 winners in a year; no one had ever done it two years in a row. Long considered unapproachable by contemporary trainers, these records were last week broken to bits by a 32-year-old Brooklyn pigeon fancier named Hirsch Jacobs.* At Yonkers, N. Y. last week Trainer Jacobs, who a dozen years ago did not know the difference between a pony and a Percheron, saddled his 150th winner of the current season. With ten weeks of racing left, his total should reach 175 before the year is over. This will...
Born & bred in Brooklyn. Hirsch Jacobs outgrew sidewalk handball as an outlet for his competitive urge when he was 13. Like many another adolescent in New York's restricted areas, he then achieved a vicarious escape mechanism by raising and training homing pigeons, in partner ship with his Italian neighbor, Charles Ferrara. When representatives of the Jacobs-Ferrara lofts came home first in several pigeon races, the partners turned their thoughts to bigger things. In 1924 they invested in a race horse named Demijohn. This was before Pigeon Fancier Jacobs had ever seen a horse race or even made...
...their products, he made it his purpose from the outset to derive a surer if more modest income solely from prizes. By 1929 he had achieved his ends sufficiently to impress a Florida colonel, one Isidor Bieber, who hired him to train his B. B. Stable. Last year Hirsch Jacobs bought the Bieber horses, settled down to work in earnest. Since 1933, the first year he led the list of U. S. trainers, he has saddled 507 winners. They amount to the unheard of proportion of 30% of his entries...
Aware that homing, even for pigeons, is an acquired impulse, it occurred to Hirsch Jacobs that few race horses know what horse races are for. Buying cheap, discarded beasts which, to his sharp eye, possessed potentialities of speed, he schooled them in the neglected fundamentals of their profession, as though winning were a kind of circus trick. Logical, the first thing Trainer Jacobs teaches horses is the start. Orthodox horsemen are frequently disconcerted when one of Mr. Jacobs' educated mounts streaks industriously away from the barrier before his rivals know a race is on. Trainer Jacobs' 146th winner...
...When registering Brevity, Owner Widener wrote in the stud book: Brevity, by Chance Shot or Sickle, out of Ormanda. *In one of her rare visits to the race track last week, Trainer Mary Hirsch's younger sister Katherine placed $2 on Bernard Mamies Baruch's Joyride, whose victory brought her $10. Later she placed the same amount on New York Representative Parker Coming's Flying Mare, who galloped home in the lead, brought her $26. Total winnings for Sister Katherine on Sister Mary's horses...