Granite Son

Students at Middlesex School, Concord, Mass., are not allowed to play the races. Nonetheless when a horse named Granite Son won a race at Chicago last week, a Middlesex boy cashed a bet of $739.70. Middlesex masters wondered what to do, until they learned the extenuating circumstances.

Last year, young Robert Cudahy persuaded his father, son of the founder of Cudahy Packing Co., to buy him a little chestnut race horse from a man who owed a feed bill of $170 and wanted to sell the horse for the bill. This summer, 14-year-old "Bob" Cudahy marked out a quarter-mile track on the Onwentsia Club polo field, had the family chauffeur hold a clock while he rode his horse around it. Later he sent the horse to the racing stable of one of his father's friends, had the trainer let a jockey exercise him. Because in his nine previous starts he had never done better than fifth, none of the Cudahys except young Bob bothered to back Granite Son in his second race as a 3-year-old last week at Lincoln Fields. Young Cudahy's winnings came from a $6 bet divided across the board, on Granite Son. The Cudahy chauffeur, the Cudahy nurse, each bet 50-c-, won $108.07.

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