Bonus Mystery

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http://www.mi-harness.com/SBreds/Bonus.htm

Winner will be selected randomly from correct entries.

All submissions must be received before 12:01 A. M. EST September 19, 2006.

Winner to receive SIX Trotting and Pacing Guides; 1970, 1973, 1974, 1995, 1997 and 2001

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I've added another photo of the same horse same day, from another source.
Lower on the page.
http://www.mi-harness.com/SBreds/Bonus.htm

Hopefully this will make ID a little easier (at least in confirming the
horses racing name).

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The first photo is of Storm Cloud and Ned Bower, winner of the 1st heat of
the 1957 Kentucky Futurity. (Double Scotch 2d heat; Cassin Hanover 3d heat)

The second photo is Cassin Hanover (Fred Egan) and Storm Cloud (Ned Bower)
finishing the 4th heat of the 1957 Kentucky Futurity. (the previous four
heat Kentucky Futurity took place in 1940, when Spencer Scott won.)

Storm Cloud was the sire of the great-granddam (Margies Storm) of Nihilator
(grandson of Albatross).

Star Money was the name of Storm Cloud before it was changed.

The following excerpt from the May 1956 Hoof Beats and a Larry Evans
article:

A family Joke is that last fall Nathan Allen and his wife, Natalie, heard
pronnising reports on a grey yearling to be sold at Lexington. Mrs. Allen
wanted a grey colt and it was agreed to bid as high as $3,500. Star Money, a
grey colt by Scotland, did not go to the Allens. He sold to Allwood Stable
for $32,000 and his name has been changed to Storm Cloud.
end of quote

There were not any winners that submitted the name of Star Money.

Dean Hoffman feed sugar to Storm Cloud during his time at Walnut Hall Farm
and he was not even aware of the horses former name.

Hundreds of people looked at the photo's and I thank them for their
efforts. Hopefully everybody enjoyed the far too difficult challenge.

The bad news in that there were a mere four submissions taking a guess.

As a result those four people will split the T&P Guides in the following
manner:

Rick Olsen, 1970 & 1995 T&P (website submission)

John Sommers, 1973 & 1997 T&P (website submission)

Bob Marks, 1974 T&P (email submission)

Mike Ellsworth, 2001 T&P (email submission)

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This horse held three world records (perhaps more), one which for lasted for more than 25 years.
Two of the records were in the same race.
Two of the records were under different reinsmen.
Purchased as a yearling for $2,700.

One of his sons also held a record that was similar to one of his.

Please name the reinsman in this photo?

http://www.mi-harness.com/SBreds/Bonus.htm


Prize options listed on web page.

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2nd Hint added:

HINT; the horse was named after a bartering term that was reminiscent of the times.

HINT II and Final; this mystery reinsman drove both the father and son to their world records.

http://mi-harness.com/SBreds/Bonus.htm

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No winners this week.
I'll attempt to make any future photo's easier.

Cold Cash held three world records
(perhaps more), one which for lasted
for more than 25 years.

In both photo's are Cold Cash and Walter Britenfield

Cold Cash (Walter Britenfield) set a then world record at Malone, NY as a 2YO (1929), of 2:051/4 in the 2d heat. All-three heats (2:051/2-2:051/4-2:081/2) were a then world record for 2YO's on a half-mile track.

Cold Cash (Henry Tomas) as a 7YO (1934) set a three heat world record on a mile track 2:00, 1:581/2, 1:581/2

Will Carney had intended to have Billy Direct (as a 2YO) have a go at the Cold Cash record on a half-miler, however after Billy Direct beat aged horses as a 2YO in three-heats with the 3d being at 7/8 in the time of 1:331/4, Billy Direct was sold before the possibility of Cold Cash record.

Meadow Ace (Del Cameron) as a 2YO in 1954 won three heats at Delaware, Ohio (2:051/5, 2:05, 2:081/2) besting Cold Cash's 2YO record from 1929.

William Cash (Walter Britenfield) by Cold Cash in 1940 won a divided-three-heats (2:03¼, 2:05½, 2:03) as a 3YO on a half-mile track.

The following from a 1937 John Hervey article.
EDITOR's NOTE: While Cold Cash raced his entire race career as a hoppled pacer, from his two-year-old world's record of 2:051/4 over the Malone, N. Y., track to his world's record race at Syracuse, N. Y., in which he set a three-heat record of 2:00-:581/2-:581/2. The fact is that he was unquestionably the fastest leading yearling pacer ever produced by Walnut Hall Farm and was perfectly gaited without the hopples. He also trained nicely to better than 2:30 early in his two-year-old season for Walter Britenfield, his present owner, then in the employe of his owner the late Frank C. Niles, of Kansas City, Mo. It was Mr. Niles' orders, and not Walter Britenfield's decision to fit Cold Cash with the hopples, and orders with Mr. Niles were mandatory. He insisted on every known precaution to make a race a sure victory. Further evidence regarding Cold Cash's gait and race temperament and likelihood of having raced just as steady without hopples and possibly faster is seen by the fact that he will stand in the eyes of the harness horse fraternity as one of the most perfect race horses of either gait, or breed. And still further evidence of his gait and reliability is seen by the fact that the last year he was raced Walter Britenfield worked him at Springfield, Ill., in 2:02, last half in 58, free-legged, And as a final estimate of whether Cold Cash was temperamentally a hoppled pacer, or free-legged there is little doubt, but that if Walter Britenfield would have tried his oft thought decision to race him without the hopples, that he would have been fully as safe and well mannered as with the hopples on, and with track and other conditions suitable might have lowered his own record of 1:581/2.