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- ↑ Los Angeles Times, June 22, 1946
- ↑ February 27, 1947, New York Times
- ↑ Los Angeles Times, September 10, 1949
- ↑ Los Angeles Times, July 12, 1959
- ↑ Los Angeles Times January 6, 1959
- ↑ February 2006 California Thoroughbred magazine article on the California Hall of Fame containing profiles of the Thoroughbred inductees of 1988.