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Monmouth, where he finished ninth in the $ 100,000 Monmouth Invitational, but when he was shipped back to Saratoga it was revealed by New York racing officials that Mrs. Sarant did not have a New York owner's license. Campo said at the time that the Sarants, after only a few weeks of ownership, had let their 70% go to Fred R. Cole, a construction executive from Long Island. Cole wired the NYRA stewards on the eve of the Travers in an attempt to satisfy them of the legitimacy of his ownership of the horse and his eligibility to run Travers Stakes the next day. However, the appeal to the stewards was too late as entries for the Travers had closed the morning prior. When Caldwell took out a bank loan from the
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Francis P. Dunne called it "...the most complex racing situation I've ever encountered." Jim French seemed to be owned by two people: Frank Caldwell and Etta Sarant. Caldwell proclaimed early in August 1971 that he
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