2002 Breeders' Cup Classic - Volponi + Post Race

In 1942, P. G. Johnson decided to get into the horse business and put up $75 for an undernourished colt named Song Master, who had just survived a fire in a barn near the Chicago stockyards. It was Johnson, a 77-year-old Hall of Fame trainer, who burned his old hometown down today when his colt Volponi, sent off at odds of 44-1, buried 11 others with an emphatic six-and-a-half-length victory in the $4 million Breeders' Cup Classic.
A shocker? Heck no, insisted Johnson, who had a twinkle in his eye when he explained that Volponi in Italian meant ''sly old fox.'' Was it a reach to bet on a 4-year-old colt that rewarded bettors $89 for a $2 bet? He deferred to his daughter Karen, a Daily Racing Form reporter who as member of the family's Amherst Stable owned half of the colt and who had picked Volponi to win the Classic in today's issue.
''Horses don't know the odds,'' she said with a smile, quoting something she has often heard from her father.
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Great memories, great race!

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Underrated horse. Won Graded stakes on Turf and Dirt.