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Gift Silver Runs the Course1 Over Television TelevisionGallop Gallop of Odie Newells Charge Seen on Nationwide HookUp HookUpCHURCHILL CHURCHILL DOWNS Louisville Ky May 5 Gift Silvers excursion here for the Kentucky Derby was not entirely in vain The colt the pride of the hinterlands of Iowa did not start in the classic but he did at least run the course As a feature of Edward R Murrows television program See It Now yesterday Gift Silver was presented live on a nationwide video hookup CBS with such pomp as limited circumstances would permit permitThe The customary bugle call was sounded and announcer Gene Schmitts voice was heard and now coming down the rail is Gift Silver On the screen Gift Silver with colors and jockey Gene Herd up was seen entering through the stretch from the furlong pole to the wire the same stretch of ground over which Sub Fleet tried so bravely to catch Hill Gail some 24hours before beforeAfter After the exhibition put on expressly as a fillip to Murrows program without bene ¬ fit of a 110000 crowd and official Derby formalities owner Odie Newell of Ottumwa Iowa took the mike and was interrogated by the commentator Newell would not al ¬ low that his beloved Gift Silver would not have had a chance in the Derby intimating that there were others in the field who didnt either Yes he said he was horribly disappointed by the turn of events and wistfully declared that he is looking for ¬ ward to another year when he will have an actual starter in the race of races And when he does interjected Murrow CBS I will make a contribution to the feed bill It was all rather pathetic patheticGift Gift Silver eliminated himself from the Derby a few days before the race when he injured himself As he broke from the gate for a workout Newell explained the saddle slipped and young Herd lost control The colt swerved into another horse on the track and suffered a cut on a foreleg When the wound did not yield completely to treatment Newell scratched him much to the relief of the Churchill Downs offi ¬ cials who feared that the green unraced colt constituted a definite menace to the Derby starters and their riders
