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STARETOR Staretor Now on West Coast Prepping For Three Engagements at Hollywood Course Nominated to Gold Cup Sunset Handicap and Derby at Inglewood InglewoodINGLEWOOD INGLEWOOD Calif May 14 Any other year you would lave won the Derby DerbyThats Thats what Col Matt Winn told George Strate trainer of Staretor after the Coast surprise finished second to Whirlaway WhirlawayNo No horse in the world ever did Avhat Whirlaway did in that final quarter All the more credit to your horse for being second Staretor returned safe and sound kick ¬ ing and playing and now ocupies a double stall at Hollywood Park He left California relatively unknown re reurning urning a hero Not since Naishapur in 1929 has a California owner seen his colors as good as second in Kentuckys spring classic Chaffee Earl of Los Angeles enjoyed the NaishapurStaretor distinction of owning Naishapur Staretor belongs to Hugh Nesbitt a Los Angeles fruit executive Nesbitt broke into racing last December when he bought Stare Stareor or and Copperman from William duPont of Delaware They were discards presum ¬ ably but let trainer Strate tell it itA A little after the close of the Santa Anita meeting Staretor one morning showed me a remarkable work My exercise boy Jimmy Wilson brought hLn back and told me this thisloss loss MrNesbitt is awful good boss I phoned Mr Nesbitt who was back East telling him I Intended ntended to go to the Derby He said Fine So we went wentSHIPPED SHIPPED 4000 MILES MILESI I shipped 4000 miles to reach the Derby jy way of Maryland Weather was my main worry Weather affects horses sometimes 3ut Staretor stood the trip like a gentleman Seemed to thrive on travel travelThe The Derby was run on a sweltering hot day right to our order orderStrate Strate revealed a sidelight not heretofore told toldThere There were eight massed brass bands lined up in the infield blasting away awayI I knew the noise might frighten my horse Other Derby trainers were stabled near me so Willie Crump Maxie Hirsch and Steve Judge all agreed with me not to go over to the paddock until the very last minute minuteWe We knew the bands and the microphones which they had lined up all the way around the paddock would disturb our horses and would interfere with our saddling We knew Ben Jones would be the last over so we decided wed just wait for Ben BenIf If they wanted to fine us for being late that was all right with all of us but they didnt didntWhen When we arrived in the paddock with our horses the valets were already there All we had to do was saddle up an go Staretor goStaretor wont miss a day of training He goes right to work propping for the Holly ¬ wood Derby Gold Cup and Sunset Handicap his three local objectives objectivesStaretor Staretor was foaled in Virginia at the duPont estate by Messenger a former stake horse out of Fair Star The latter a grand mare won the Pimlico Futurity from Whiskery which later won the Ken ¬ tucky Derby DerbyMAY MAY PROVE STAYER STAYERA A nonwinner and unplaced in four starts as a juvenile Staretor arrived west to win his maiden race after transfer to Strates training He showed steady im ¬ provement A grand individual reddish chestnut in hue tall and strong Staretor likes to come from behind indicating he will prove a stayer Something stayerSomething about Strate StrateThree Three times hes gone after the Kentucky Derby Pirst as trainer for C E Durnell 1904 when Elwood won I actually trained the horse for Durnell though Boots name was on the program said Strate StrateIn In 1934 Strate saddled Agrarian to be third behind Cavalcade and Discovery Well known on the Coast Strate conditioned horses out here for John H Rosseter de ¬ veloping Inchcape and Valley of the Moon also Aspinwall Later he was employed by Carleton Burke as trainer and then by Wal ¬ ter Dupee He then spent half a dozen seasons on the New Sork turf turfHis His association with Hugh Nesbitt started last fall Nesbitt seeking to establish a racing stable sought Strates advice and employed him himScores Scores of men have spent millions trying to win a Derby Nesbitts first horse fin ¬ ished second to a record breaker breakerGive Give that colored exercise boy of mine plenty of credit stated Strate Boy he sure deserves it Jimmy Wilsons been with me fifteen years I got him from Jimmy Rowe You know this is the boy that used to gallop Whichone for Whitney Whitney always considered Whichone the best horse lie raised Jimmy Wilson knows how to rate taughtStaretor a horse to precision and he taught Staretor how to be rated
