Johnny Longden

Johnny Longden is in the first row wearing polka dots, Ansel is in the third row far right (with the ears ;o) Willy Molter is first in the third row with the box pattern on his right sleeve. Ansel isn't sure where the picture was taken.

1st row- Bobby Warren, Charlie Scott, Johnny Longden, Stan Balcom
2nd row- __________, ___________, __________.
3rd row- Willy Molter, Lyle Brown, _____Brown, Ansel Marshall
4th row- Johnny Coclan, Jimmy Coclan, Jimmy Collins, _______, Jay Cowan, Lyman Logan, ________, Larry Arnold.

1932 at Whittier Park, Winnipeg, Canada Ansel was running with Johnny Longden and they shared the same valet. Ansel said it rained like really hard all night and it was still raining the next morning, and the track was a real sloppy mess. They were in the jocks room and it was still 45 minutes before the race.

Looking out the window at all the rain and slop, Longden said, “Well Ansel, I just saw a mouse run across the track being chased by four cats and when they hit the turn they all four cats fell down, but we’re going to out there an run anyway…”

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Johnny Longden hardly ever whipped his race horses, he would hand ride, (run his hands up the horses neck) He said, that he figured if he was a horse, out there running hard and he was doin his best and you started pounding on him with a whip, why then he would stop, well he’d sure quit running hard anyway.








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