Print size 16″ X 21″, Image Size 11″ X 14″

This print has been in storage since 1967 and has slight discolorations around the print border which does not distract from the beauty of the print and would be easily covered up when matted and framed.

Dark brown colt, foaled 1849
By Count Fleet — Ace Card, by Case Ace

Bred at Mr. Walter M. Jeffords’ Faraway Farm, Lexington, Ky., owned by Mrs. Walter M. Jeffords.

Winner of only one minor race as a two-year-old, One Count did not show championship qualities until well along in his three-year-old season. But at the end of 1952, he had earned the title of “Horse of the Year” in Daily Racing Form’s annual poll of champions.

It wasn’t until May 10, 1952, that One Count gained a stakes placing when he finished second to Armageddon in the Withers Stakes at Belmont. He followed this with a third to Blue Man and Jampol in the Preakness. Then came the performance which stamped him a championship contender – a smashing win in the mile and one-half Belmont Stakes. In his wake were Blue May and Armageddon.

He next captured the historic Travers Stakes at Saratoga, displaying the same authority which marked his Belmont win. His quest for the title had a set-back in his next appearance when Calumet Farm’s Mark-Ye-Well beat him for the Lawrence Realization. However, the Calumet colt had an eight-pound pull in the weights.

They next met in the two-mile Jockey Club Gold cup, this time at equal weights, and Mrs. Jeffords’ colt reversed the decision with a brilliant two-length victory. For behind them was the year’s Handicap Champion, Crafty Admiral.

The Count Fleet colt completed his campaign in the Empire Gold Cup at Jamaica. Again meeting older horses, he galloped off to a nine-length victory to bring this year’s earnings to $231,725.