Richie, the Chief was unorthodox, successful, and always seemed to give everybody a chance no matter how much experience and education they had about horses. Your description of his workouts is true --- he could do unusual, and what some might have considered questionable training methods but, people would just shake their heads at that particular approach in dis-belief. But, over time, they would become accustomed to it, and just remark, "He did it again!" They, and we, just got used to his unorthodox approaches and the success he achieved by approaching things differently. I think his son, Jimmy has "inherited" some of that.

I think you are referring to what I happen to consider "American Racing Royalty" with the descendants of the King Ranch Klebergs' who are still very much involved in the sport of thoroughbred horseracing. Helen K. Groves, a daughter of Robert Kleberg (one of the brothers, who owned and ran King Ranch for a time), and Helen's daughters --- one of whom is married to Trainer Michael Matz. They still continue to breed and race some very good horses, in my opinion. I try to always watch out for their horses. The try to breed some good horses.