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FLAMINGO CONVINCED WOGLF Did Not Realize Lawrin s Class Until t Hialeah Triumph. : t M. B. Shanberg Responsible for Insco Coltg Presence at Florida Course Last Spring. HIALEAH, Fla., Dec. 15. Fate playST funny pranks, even on a race track. It wad fate that caused the long-standing friendship. of Herbert M. Woolf, Kansas City sports man, and M. B. Shanberg, theatrical mag- nate, who maintains a winter home on beautiful Miami Beach. This same fate conw! bined to create a Kentucky Derby winner in, Lawrin. But for Shanbergs insistence oil having Woolf come" here to enjoy a season as his guest under Floridas balmy skies, the Woolford Farm horses would have been reV tired last winter from racing. "Well, Ill go," Woolf finally told "Shan,j "if you can persuade my trainer, Ben Jones.1 "Shan" went to work on the Missourian and showed him why he should spend the season at Hialeah. At long last they came, accompanied by thirty-nine head, including Lawrin. The son of Insco and Margaret Lawrence proceeded to win the 0,000 added Flamingo Stakes and then the 0,000 added Kentucky Derby,- At the Kentucky Derby dinner that evening the jubilant Mr. Woolf, after giving due credit to trainer Jones, pointed to Shan" and said to the assembled guests: "See that fellow over there. Well, hes the one who persuaded me to race at Hialeah. I did not know how good Lawrin really was until he won the Flamingo Stakes at Mr. Wideners track and it was that race which convinced me I should start him in the Derby." Lawrin is now in light training at Hialeah,-preparing for the 0,000 added Widener on March 4. And perhaps fate again may decree greater glory for the horse which scintillated to unexpected fame this year.
