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The longest odds of them all: Jim Dandy stands in the winner’s circle after upsetting the field of the 1930 Travers Stakes at Saratoga
Going off at 100-1 odds in the slop, Jim Dandy was figured to have no chance in the Travers. The field was short, just four horses in all, but two of his opponents represented the best of their crop: Triple Crown winner Gallant Fox and his rival, Withers Stakes winner Whichone
While Gallant Fox and Whichone blazed around the first turn locked in a speed duel, Jim Dandy saved his strength and waited. Both of the leaders were running on the only dry part of the track - directly down the middle. Going around the far turn, Whichone’s foreleg gave way and he darted away from it, toward the outside. Gallant Fox, lapped close beside him, was carried even further out into the track. Whichone was pulled up, never to race again
Meanwhile, Jim Dandy, who had hugged the inside rail the entire way around and who was a natural mudder, surged past the Triple Crown winner, who was exhausted after battling Whichone in the heavy mud
The 100-1 upset swam home in front by six lengths, with Gallant Fox being eased toward the end
Triple Crown winner Omaha at age 25, standing in the pasture of the Nebraska City Farm of Grove Porter, the Nebraska racing commissioner
Omaha died two years later in 1959
Dat face
