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Newspaper Article
Nearly a Century of Horse Sense
1996
Overview
Fred W. Hooper will be at Woodbine Racetrack Wednesday as his horse, Diplomat Jet, prepares for the Breeders' Cup Turf, and he will almost certainly give some emphatic suggestions to his trainer and jockey. Even though a $2 million purse is at stake Saturday, he probably will have a wager on the race, too. Hooper has always been an active, opinionated owner of thoroughbreds, and he's not going to become sedentary or passive just because he is 99 years old. He is excited about this race, but he doesn't need a victory to achieve any unfulfilled ambitions in the sport. Hooper already has done it all. He has owned and bred a winner of the Kentucky Derby and a Breeders' Cup event. His horses have earned Eclipse Awards and he has won the sport's highest honor. On that occasion, journalist Kent Hollingsworth wrote: \"The Eclipse Award of Merit goes to a man who has listened to the experts {and} paid no attention to them.\" Born on a farm in Georgia, Hooper received only eight years of formal schooling, but he possessed an abundance of energy and savvy. In his early years he bought and sold farm horses, worked as a carpenter and riveter, raised potatoes, operated a barbershop in Jacksonville, Fla. When he heard that a highway was about to be built in the Jacksonville area, he bid on the job, got it and founded the business that would be the basis of his fortune. Even as he was establishing the Hooper Construction Co. as one of the nation's foremost builders of roads, bridges and dams, he was restless for other ventures and challenges.
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