Wichita Eagle, Monday, March 18, 1985
RAYMOND STEWART BALDWIN, 72, of Derby, former owner of Ray Baldwin Originals, died Saturday. Service 11 a.m. Tuesday, Quiring-Old Mission Mortuary.
Survivors: wife, Constance J.; son, Jack R. of Derby; daughter, Nancy Joan Farrow of Wichita; sister, Betty Lou Sims of Wichita; six grandchildren; five great-grandchildren. Memorial has been established with the Wesley Medical Center, in care of the Raymond Baldwin Memorial Fund.
Wichita Eagle, Tuesday, March 19, 1985
RAYMOND BALDWIN'S HOBBY WAS HORSES, LEGAL RACING
Horse racing was Raymond Stewart Baldwin's hobby - and his political cause. For more than three decades, Mr. Baldwin, of Derby, who died Saturday, raised and trained quarter horses and fought for legalization of pari-mutuel betting in Kansas.
He was also an authority on quarter horses, compact, muscular horses known for great speed over short distances.
''He was a guy with whom you can spend half a day at a time talking horse business," said Bill Shively, a friend and another racing enthusiast.
Mr. Baldwin, 72, helped start the Kansas Quarter Horse Association in 1951, a group that held the state's first official quarter horse race for 2- year-old horses, in a cow pasture near Meade.
In the years that followed, Mr. Baldwin continued to organize and promote racing, and lobby the state Legislature to permit betting on horses in Kansas. Betting, Mr. Baldwin and his supporters argued, would boost the race purses, thus improving the quality of horses that would be drawn to the races.
Mr. Baldwin made that argument consistently, standing up for his side of one of the more controversial issues in the state in recent years.
It's still being debated, and pari-mutuel wagering remains illegal.
Mr. Baldwin grew up with horses. His father used to own a freight line in Wichita during the horse-and-buggy days. Later, Mr. Baldwin started showing quarter horses, but it was his son, Jack, who got Mr. Baldwin interested in racing.
Jack, now 47 and an accomplished horse trainer, got interested in racing when he was 8.
''He'd train them, and I'd ride them," Jack recalled the arrangement.
Later, Jack, too, got into horse training, and eventually the father and son owned 30 horses together.
Some of the horses are kept on the family ranch, equipped with a complete training track. Much of the racing the two did was outside the state.
In fact, even the first race sponsored by the quarter horse association was eventually moved to Ruidoso, N.M., where betting is legal.
The race is still called Kansas Open to the World Futurity, though most of the horses raced in it are from outside the state. Last year, the race offerred a purse of $700,000, said Shively, former president of the state's racing association, who lives in Derby.
Services for Mr. Baldwin will be at 11 a.m. today at Quiring-Old Mission Mortuary.
He is survived by his wife, Constance J.; son, Jack R. of Derby; daughter, Nancy Joan Farrow of Wichita; sister, Betty Lou Sims of Wichita; six grandchildren; five great-grandchildren. Memorial has been established with Wesley Medical Center, in care of the Raymond Baldwin Memorial Fund.
RAYMOND STEWART BALDWIN, 72, of Derby, former owner of Ray Baldwin Originals, died Saturday. Service 11 a.m. Tuesday, Quiring-Old Mission Mortuary.
Survivors: wife, Constance J.; son, Jack R. of Derby; daughter, Nancy Joan Farrow of Wichita; sister, Betty Lou Sims of Wichita; six grandchildren; five great-grandchildren. Memorial has been established with the Wesley Medical Center, in care of the Raymond Baldwin Memorial Fund.
Wichita Eagle, Tuesday, March 19, 1985
RAYMOND BALDWIN'S HOBBY WAS HORSES, LEGAL RACING
Horse racing was Raymond Stewart Baldwin's hobby - and his political cause. For more than three decades, Mr. Baldwin, of Derby, who died Saturday, raised and trained quarter horses and fought for legalization of pari-mutuel betting in Kansas.
He was also an authority on quarter horses, compact, muscular horses known for great speed over short distances.
''He was a guy with whom you can spend half a day at a time talking horse business," said Bill Shively, a friend and another racing enthusiast.
Mr. Baldwin, 72, helped start the Kansas Quarter Horse Association in 1951, a group that held the state's first official quarter horse race for 2- year-old horses, in a cow pasture near Meade.
In the years that followed, Mr. Baldwin continued to organize and promote racing, and lobby the state Legislature to permit betting on horses in Kansas. Betting, Mr. Baldwin and his supporters argued, would boost the race purses, thus improving the quality of horses that would be drawn to the races.
Mr. Baldwin made that argument consistently, standing up for his side of one of the more controversial issues in the state in recent years.
It's still being debated, and pari-mutuel wagering remains illegal.
Mr. Baldwin grew up with horses. His father used to own a freight line in Wichita during the horse-and-buggy days. Later, Mr. Baldwin started showing quarter horses, but it was his son, Jack, who got Mr. Baldwin interested in racing.
Jack, now 47 and an accomplished horse trainer, got interested in racing when he was 8.
''He'd train them, and I'd ride them," Jack recalled the arrangement.
Later, Jack, too, got into horse training, and eventually the father and son owned 30 horses together.
Some of the horses are kept on the family ranch, equipped with a complete training track. Much of the racing the two did was outside the state.
In fact, even the first race sponsored by the quarter horse association was eventually moved to Ruidoso, N.M., where betting is legal.
The race is still called Kansas Open to the World Futurity, though most of the horses raced in it are from outside the state. Last year, the race offerred a purse of $700,000, said Shively, former president of the state's racing association, who lives in Derby.
Services for Mr. Baldwin will be at 11 a.m. today at Quiring-Old Mission Mortuary.
He is survived by his wife, Constance J.; son, Jack R. of Derby; daughter, Nancy Joan Farrow of Wichita; sister, Betty Lou Sims of Wichita; six grandchildren; five great-grandchildren. Memorial has been established with Wesley Medical Center, in care of the Raymond Baldwin Memorial Fund.
Wichita Eagle, Monday, March 18, 1985
RAYMOND STEWART BALDWIN, 72, of Derby, former owner of Ray Baldwin Originals, died Saturday. Service 11 a.m. Tuesday, Quiring-Old Mission Mortuary.
Survivors: wife, Constance J.; son, Jack R. of Derby; daughter, Nancy Joan Farrow of Wichita; sister, Betty Lou Sims of Wichita; six grandchildren; five great-grandchildren. Memorial has been established with the Wesley Medical Center, in care of the Raymond Baldwin Memorial Fund.
Wichita Eagle, Tuesday, March 19, 1985
RAYMOND BALDWIN'S HOBBY WAS HORSES, LEGAL RACING
Horse racing was Raymond Stewart Baldwin's hobby - and his political cause. For more than three decades, Mr. Baldwin, of Derby, who died Saturday, raised and trained quarter horses and fought for legalization of pari-mutuel betting in Kansas.
He was also an authority on quarter horses, compact, muscular horses known for great speed over short distances.
''He was a guy with whom you can spend half a day at a time talking horse business," said Bill Shively, a friend and another racing enthusiast.
Mr. Baldwin, 72, helped start the Kansas Quarter Horse Association in 1951, a group that held the state's first official quarter horse race for 2- year-old horses, in a cow pasture near Meade.
In the years that followed, Mr. Baldwin continued to organize and promote racing, and lobby the state Legislature to permit betting on horses in Kansas. Betting, Mr. Baldwin and his supporters argued, would boost the race purses, thus improving the quality of horses that would be drawn to the races.
Mr. Baldwin made that argument consistently, standing up for his side of one of the more controversial issues in the state in recent years.
It's still being debated, and pari-mutuel wagering remains illegal.
Mr. Baldwin grew up with horses. His father used to own a freight line in Wichita during the horse-and-buggy days. Later, Mr. Baldwin started showing quarter horses, but it was his son, Jack, who got Mr. Baldwin interested in racing.
Jack, now 47 and an accomplished horse trainer, got interested in racing when he was 8.
''He'd train them, and I'd ride them," Jack recalled the arrangement.
Later, Jack, too, got into horse training, and eventually the father and son owned 30 horses together.
Some of the horses are kept on the family ranch, equipped with a complete training track. Much of the racing the two did was outside the state.
In fact, even the first race sponsored by the quarter horse association was eventually moved to Ruidoso, N.M., where betting is legal.
The race is still called Kansas Open to the World Futurity, though most of the horses raced in it are from outside the state. Last year, the race offerred a purse of $700,000, said Shively, former president of the state's racing association, who lives in Derby.
Services for Mr. Baldwin will be at 11 a.m. today at Quiring-Old Mission Mortuary.
He is survived by his wife, Constance J.; son, Jack R. of Derby; daughter, Nancy Joan Farrow of Wichita; sister, Betty Lou Sims of Wichita; six grandchildren; five great-grandchildren. Memorial has been established with Wesley Medical Center, in care of the Raymond Baldwin Memorial Fund.
RAYMOND STEWART BALDWIN, 72, of Derby, former owner of Ray Baldwin Originals, died Saturday. Service 11 a.m. Tuesday, Quiring-Old Mission Mortuary.
Survivors: wife, Constance J.; son, Jack R. of Derby; daughter, Nancy Joan Farrow of Wichita; sister, Betty Lou Sims of Wichita; six grandchildren; five great-grandchildren. Memorial has been established with the Wesley Medical Center, in care of the Raymond Baldwin Memorial Fund.
Wichita Eagle, Tuesday, March 19, 1985
RAYMOND BALDWIN'S HOBBY WAS HORSES, LEGAL RACING
Horse racing was Raymond Stewart Baldwin's hobby - and his political cause. For more than three decades, Mr. Baldwin, of Derby, who died Saturday, raised and trained quarter horses and fought for legalization of pari-mutuel betting in Kansas.
He was also an authority on quarter horses, compact, muscular horses known for great speed over short distances.
''He was a guy with whom you can spend half a day at a time talking horse business," said Bill Shively, a friend and another racing enthusiast.
Mr. Baldwin, 72, helped start the Kansas Quarter Horse Association in 1951, a group that held the state's first official quarter horse race for 2- year-old horses, in a cow pasture near Meade.
In the years that followed, Mr. Baldwin continued to organize and promote racing, and lobby the state Legislature to permit betting on horses in Kansas. Betting, Mr. Baldwin and his supporters argued, would boost the race purses, thus improving the quality of horses that would be drawn to the races.
Mr. Baldwin made that argument consistently, standing up for his side of one of the more controversial issues in the state in recent years.
It's still being debated, and pari-mutuel wagering remains illegal.
Mr. Baldwin grew up with horses. His father used to own a freight line in Wichita during the horse-and-buggy days. Later, Mr. Baldwin started showing quarter horses, but it was his son, Jack, who got Mr. Baldwin interested in racing.
Jack, now 47 and an accomplished horse trainer, got interested in racing when he was 8.
''He'd train them, and I'd ride them," Jack recalled the arrangement.
Later, Jack, too, got into horse training, and eventually the father and son owned 30 horses together.
Some of the horses are kept on the family ranch, equipped with a complete training track. Much of the racing the two did was outside the state.
In fact, even the first race sponsored by the quarter horse association was eventually moved to Ruidoso, N.M., where betting is legal.
The race is still called Kansas Open to the World Futurity, though most of the horses raced in it are from outside the state. Last year, the race offerred a purse of $700,000, said Shively, former president of the state's racing association, who lives in Derby.
Services for Mr. Baldwin will be at 11 a.m. today at Quiring-Old Mission Mortuary.
He is survived by his wife, Constance J.; son, Jack R. of Derby; daughter, Nancy Joan Farrow of Wichita; sister, Betty Lou Sims of Wichita; six grandchildren; five great-grandchildren. Memorial has been established with Wesley Medical Center, in care of the Raymond Baldwin Memorial Fund.
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