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Roy Chapman, a Philadelphia area Ford dealer, and his wife, Pat, purchase a 100-acre spread in Chester County, Pa., to raise horses for fox hunting and racing. As they discuss their racing dreams, they stumble on the perfect name for the farm. \"We were saying, 'Someday we were going to do this,' and 'Someday we were going to do that,'\" Pat Chapman recalled later. \"And my husband said, 'I think we ought to call it Someday Farm.' So we did.\" ";
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The Chapmans experience an astounding early success at the steeplechase game when Uncle Merlin captures the 1989 Maryland Hunt Cup, earning an entry in the Grand National Steeplechase race in Liverpool, England, the following year. The horse clears 20 of the 30 fences on the demanding 4-mile, 856-yard course and has the lead when a hard landing on the 21st fence topples jockey Hywel Davies from the saddle.";
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With their focus turned to flat racing, the Chapmans act on the recommendation of trainer and racing adviser Bob Camac and buy a yearling filly named I'll Get Along for $40,000 at the Keeneland September sale. I'll Get Along goes on to win 12 races and earn $277,008 before being retired for breeding. ";
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On Camac's advice, the Chapmans breed I'll Get Along to unproven stallion Elusive Quality, the world's record-holder for a mile, who commands a modest $10,000 fee. Both horses have pedigrees that lean toward speed. ";
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A chestnut foal is born to I'll Get Along at Someday Farm. Recalling Smarty Jones’ birth, farm manager Deborah Given later tells the Philadelphia Inquirer, \"He came out perfectly, in a hurry, just like he is now.\" Because the horse was born on the same day as Pat Chapman’s mother, Mildred, who died 12 years earlier, the Chapmans decide to saddle him with her childhood nickname: Smarty Jones.";
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Bob Camac and his wife, Maryann, are shot to death at their New Jersey home by Wade Russell, her son by a previous marriage. Russell shoots Bob Camac in the back as he leaves for the track before dawn, then slays his mother when she comes to investigate. Members of Camac's family say the killing occurred after Camac discovered Russell had been stealing owners' checks from his mailbox and forging his signature on them. A plea bargain resulted in a sentence of 28 years in prison for Russell.
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Devastated by the violent death of their longtime friend and trainer, and with Roy's emphysema – the result of a decades-long Lucky Strikes habit -- and other health problems worsening, the Chapmans contemplate getting out of the horse business entirely. They send yearling Smarty and another horse to Bridlewood Farm in Ocala, Fla., but tell manager George Isaacs they may be looking for buyers for both horses. Isaacs soon convinces them to hold onto at least one of them, a colt that later says reminded him of \"Michael Jordan in a bridle.\" ";
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Upon the recommendation of bloodstock agent Mark Reid, a longtime friend, the Chapmans send Smarty Jones to trainer John Servis, 45, a second-generation horseman who lives a quarter-mile from Philadelphia Park.";
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During a training session, Smarty rears and smashes his head on an iron bar at the top of the starting gate, then crashes to the ground, unconscious with blood pouring from his nostrils. Servis' first thought is that the colt is dead. Smarty comes to and is rushed to the New Jersey Equine Clinic, where he makes a horrifying impression on the staff. \"When he got here, the whole left side of his head was just a balloon, with really grotesque-looking pink and yellow and bloody tissue sticking out of where his eye should have been,\" veterinarian Patricia Hogan recalled in an interview with the Associated Press. Despite having suffered multiple fractures of his eye socket and hairline skull fractures, the colt that staff members dubbed Quasimodo because of his swollen eye is released from the hospital after two weeks and returns to training in just two months. ";
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Under journeyman jockey Stewart Elliott, the smallish Smarty Jones makes his debut at Philadelphia Park, winning a $24,000 maiden race at 6 furlongs by 7 3/4 lengths at odds of $1.10-1.";
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In his second start, 7-10 favorite Smarty Jones breaks slowly, but quickly regroups and draws off to win the $56,000 Pennsylvania Nursery Stakes at 7 furlongs by a scintillating 15 lengths. Servis later said that this race opened his eyes about his horse’s talent.";
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In his first start at 3, Smarty again overcomes trouble – a stumble at the start – in powering to a five-length victory in the $81,000 Count Fleet Stakes, contested over 1 mile, 70 yards at New York's Aqueduct. New York bettors weren't fooled by the fact that the colt had been beating weaker company in Philadelphia, making him the 2-5 favorite";
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After a seven-week freshening, Smarty celebrates his birthday with a three-quarters length victory over Two Down Automatic in the $100,000 Southwest Stakes, a mile race at Oaklawn Park. Servis later says the 1-2 favorite was only cranked up \"75 or 80 percent\" for the race.";
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Smarty passes his toughest test to date, besting the promising colt Purge by 3 1/4 lengths in the $200,000 Rebel Stakes at Oaklawn, stopping the clock in a scorching 1:42 and demonstrating in the process that his sprinter’s pedigree will at least carry him 1 1/16 miles. For the first time in his career Smarty isn’t favored in the race, going off as the 7-2 third choice. \"I really don't think people realize how good this horse is,\" Servis tells the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette afterward. \"I think they're going to be surprised.\" ";
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Stuck in the outside post position in an 11-horse field in the $1 million Arkansas Derby, Elliott is forced to use Smarty’s superior speed to save ground around the first turn. But the lost energy makes no difference, as the even-money favorite accelerates away at the top of the stretch and wins the 1 1/8 mile race by 1 1/2 lengths over Borrego. In an important omen for Kentucky, he demonstrates that a muddy track is no obstacle.";
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Smarty stalks Lion Heart through the early stages of the 1 1/4-mile Kentucky Derby and then overhauls his speedy rival in the stretch en route to a 2 3/4-length victory over a \"sloppy\" Churchill Downs racetrack. In doing so, the 4-1 favorite becomes just the second Pennsylvania-bred ever to capture the Run for the Roses, joining 1992 winner Lil E Tee. He also collects a whopping $5 million bonus offered by Oaklawn Park to any horse who could win the two major local races for 3-year-olds – the Rebel Stakes and the Arkansas Derby – as well as the Kentucky Derby. Roy Chapman, a few days shy of his 78th birthday, is overwhelmed. After standing up from his wheelchair and throwing his arms in the air, he quickly sits down, fighting for breath. \"I felt like I was having a heart attack,\" he later tells the Baltimore Sun. \"If you know anything about emphysema, you know the one thing you never do is raise your arms above your head. I just ran out of air and had to sit down.\" ";
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Elliott and Smarty employ stalk-and-pounce tactics again, passing Lion Heart at the top of the stretch and sprinting away from the field en route to a record 11 1/2-length victory over Rock Hard Ten in the 1 3/16-mile Preakness Stakes, the second leg of the Triple Crown. \"He's just unbelievable. He just keeps getting better, this son of a gun,\" Elliott says afterward. Roy Chapman describes the colt as a gift that keeps on giving. \"It really hit me emotionally just how good this horse is,\" he says. \"... I thought he might win, but I never thought he’d blow them away.\"";
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It took a horse even smaller than Smarty Jones to foil his Triple Crown bid, as 36-1 long shot Birdstone overhauled the 1-5 favorite in deep stretch in the Belmont Stakes and extended the 26-year streak of futility in the three-race series at least another year.";
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SmartyJones[i-1].body = "While in training for his return to racing and what was to have been his triumphal homecoming in the Pennsylvania Derby on Sept. 5, Smarty Jones is instead suddenly retired after being diagnosed with bone bruises in all four feet. The Chapmans announced that the overachieving chestnut will stand stud at Three Chimneys Farm, occupying the stall of Seattle Slew, the only undefeated Triple Crown winner in history. His stud fee is set at $100,000.";
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