Sep Palin

According to The Indianapolis News, "The first horse [Palin] drove was a big gray draft stallion which pulled the cart in which he made deliveries for his father’s butcher shop.

[1] "In the summer of 1914 he came out with an unknown, but fast, pacer called Possibility, with which he won 14 straight races and purses totaling the then considerable sum of $11,000," The Indianapolis News reported.

[3] In 1932, Col. Edward J. Baker of St. Charles, Ill., bought Greyhound as a yearling, from Henry H. Knight, a General Motors official of Chicago and owner of Almahurst Farm near Lexington, Kentucky, at the Indianapolis trotting sales for just $900.

[4] At that time, Baker also provided the financial assistance necessary for the operation of The Senator Farm, while Palin, the stable's manager, did all the training and driving of the horses.

[7] While watching a time trial at the Lexington trotting track on September 29, 1952, Palin, 74, slumped from a rail position, fell, and hit his head on the ground.