Between Races: Jockeys Ball at Biltmore Bowl; Horse Whose Name Was Forgotten; Workman Now California Citizen; Harumphs From Louis Feustel, Sr., Daily Racing Form, 1948-05-29

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BETWEEN RACES By Oscar Otis Jockeys Ball at Biltmore Bowl Horse Whose Name Was Forgotten Workman Now California Citizen Harumphs From Louis Feustel Sr SrHOLLYWOOD HOLLYWOOD PARK Inglewood Calif May 28 Horses and People Racing sec ¬ retary Johnny Maluvius has added a new siant to nis oiiice an the West at least by timeclocking all en ¬ tries and requiring the full signature of the trainer on the entry slip Initialing of en ¬ tries is not now al ¬ lowed Claims the timestamp method plus full signature eliminates any argu ¬ ment in the claiming of stars or preferred eligibility The western division of the Jockeys Guild has chosen the night of July 19 for its annual charity fund raising dinner and entertain ¬ ment and the locale will be Baron Longs worldfamous Biltmore Bowl Trie mo ¬ tion picture studios have promised to con ¬ tribute heavily in the way of talent for the revue Archie Sneed ran into what may be a record run of hard luck at his Hemet Farm this spring Of 20 mares on the acreage three slipped twins and all six youngster died Delaware Parks ushers will vdon their summer uniforms for this season tomorrow making it official that the long spring season is officially over Sylvester W Labrot Jrs Bovard is the horse whose name was forgotten Labrot gets a lot of tun each year naming his upandcoming stock obtains many names from the French dictionary then changes the spelling if need be to make the name sound euphonious in the larynx of the announcers But he has quite forgotten how he came to call the son of Bahrain and Knights Nurse Bovard al ¬ though he has tried hard to remember Incidentally Bpvard is not named after a person When Bovard gained stature a few weeks ago as a Preakness candidate letters came in from distant parts of the nation asking if the horse were named for them Seems as how there is a scatter ¬ ing of Bovards all over the nation and even the University of Southern California Ath ¬ letic area is named Bovard Field after a former president of the university An ¬ other Labrot campaigner Dutel is not a combination of Do Tell but is named for a Dutel family in Louisiana s Jockey Newbold Leroy Pierson was so down on his luck as a pilot not too many seasons ago that he served for a spell as a valet at Caliente Now the mamis a nat ¬ ional figure as the rider of Coaltown The Washington State Horse Racing Commis ¬ sion has upped its original donation of 30000 to Washington State Colleges Hill ¬ top Stables to 100000 Frank Childs acting for a California patron asked that Quarter Pole Up Beat Kilroy and Star Bout be priced but was informed that none of the quartet was for sale Raymond Sonny Workman has joined the ranks of California citizens having purchased a home on an acre lot near Van Nuys in the San Fernando Valley Workman has made it a habit to spend his winters out this way and evidently liked it so well he decided to become a permanent resident Workman paid his first visit yesterday to Hollywood Park following his return from the East where he wound up many of his business affairs affairsA A Louis Fuestel Sr who trained Man o War and a West Coast turfman for the past several years merely harumphs when asked if Citation could be compared to the famous Riddle colt They compare all the good ones to Man o War was his only comment And there are a few when speaking of comparisons insist that Cita ¬ tion still has a bit of a way to go before he can be rated over Count Fleet perhaps never really extended during his racing lifetime Of course such talk is idle as nothing can be proven one way or the other but nevertheless it makes for an in ¬ teresting conversation during otherwise dull moments Wild Eve a daughter of the gray stallion Trierarch made good in the first juvenile event of the year offered re ¬ cently at Caliente Wild Eve is the first of the produce of Trierarch to reach the races and won her first start quite handfly She was named Wild Eve because she kept the entire establishment up the whole night for her arrival Trierarch is owned by Mrs Dorothy Barrett who has transferred her farm and racing interests from Mary ¬ land to San Mateo County


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