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, " | ► r— SuffolkDowns Notebook I By FRED GALIANI Park Dandy Proves Bargain Horse Cost Beattie Practically Nothing Refuses 5,000 Offer for Colt SUFFOLK DOWNS, East Boston, Mass., May 6. — When William "Jim" Beatties Time for Speed defeated Ben Dario s Nancy Clare in a New England-bred race yesterday it must have been a case of rubbing a little more salt into open wounds. Probably the best New England-bred horse this year is the three - year - old Park Dandy, who races for Jim Beattie, and thereby hangs a tale. When Dario, the major domo of Lincoln Downs race track, entered the sport as a breeder he assembled a band of mares and the stud, Bull Dandy. Finding himself overloaded with mares, he decided to cull some and Beattie came on the scene. Dario let Beattie have five mares, including Park Avenue, who was in foal to Bull Dandy at the time, for ,500. Park Avenue dropped Park Dandy, who has won three straight handicaps this spring and will take a shot at high society in the Jersey Stakes at Garden State Park. Dario has offered Beattie 5,000 for Park Dandy, but the offer has fallen on deaf ears. And to make matters worse, Beattie, being owner of the mare at the time of foaling, is listed as the breeder of the horse and so it stands on the record, regardless of what Dario might say about his planning the mating. Another major improvement at the Downs has been the enlargement of the jockeys room. This past winter a crew knocked down a couple of walls on the second floor of the administration building and when they had finished the jockeys now had a new recreation room, equipped with TV set, pool table, card tables, and a new lunch counter, over which John "Fat" Shine rules in regal manner. The innovation has been gratefully received from the jockeys valets who are not able to get around with room without falling over a couple of rummy playing riders . . . The workout tab yesterday morning numbered about 170 horses, which docker Jimmy Ackerman tabbed the largest in Suffolks history . . . William Randolph Hearst, Jr., publisher of the Hearst papers, was a press box visitor yesterday . . . Just back from France and swinging into his turf appearances is Johnny Buckley, the fight manager. One of his boys, Norman Hayes, fights the end of the month and goes into service the next day, making him the third of Buckleys fighters to be called up by Uncle Sam this year. Johnny will have to give those figures a double going over. Arnold Shrimpton, Australian-born horse breeder, trader and turf writer at large, disembarked from the boat at Boston in March after witnessing the Grand National and decided to visit Lincoln Downs. That was back in March and hes been in New England ever since. The game must be good, or at least a lot better than the time Shrimpy bet on a horse in the Hunt Cup at the Royal Ascot meeting. Getting the beast as a good thing, Shrimpy was down to his last five pounds and he took the horse at 33 to 1, the opening line offered .by his gentleman of odds. Needless to say, the word got around the betting ring and the horse was hammered down to a small price, which encouraged Shrimpton all the more. And here comes way number 196 to lose a bet. During the running of the race a violent thunder storm fell on Ascot, driving everyone to cover except Shrimpton, who being Australian was not expected to exhibit typical British phlegm and thus remained out in the downpour howling like a banshee for his last five pounds. The good thing stood up and the suddenly wealthy hero dashed back to the betting ring to collect his dough, whereupon he was informed that of all the bookmakers in the track his was struck by a lightning bolt and killed. Shrimptons winnings went towards the bookmakers funeral expenses and a fund for the family. Apprentice William Walsh was all set to win the first race yesterday on Laddie when his foot came out of his iron and the horse drifted out after getting the lead to be beaten almost a length . . . Publicity Director Ed Sullivans four-year-old daughter, Susan, is recovering from a tonsilectomy . . . Silby Rossi, the Continued on Page Thirty Four SuffolkDowns Notebook By FRED GALIANI Continued from Page Two perennial youngster, is all set to start his 27th year of riding this Saturday . . . Doing a lot of hand shaking this morning was Jack Skinner, the former jockey who has just returned from nine months of service in Korea with the 31st Regiment of the 7 th Division. After spending a couple of days here he will travel to his Laurel, Md., home. Five more months of service and Skinner will be discharged and ready to return to the tracks . . . Bright, young thing yesterday came up with an idea to protect her feet from the rain, she utilized a couple of the free post cards as auxiliary soles in her shoes. Election of officers of the New England Turf Writers Association will be held next Tuesday evening at the annual meeting at Steubens in Boston. Gerry Sullivan, of the Boston Traveler, is the current president . . . A civil defense air raid test will be held in the entire Boston ai*ea tomorrow morning at 9:35. The track will be closed for training at 9:00 so that the horses can be cooled out and returned to the stalls before the drill. All horses must be in their stalls during the test and all persons in the stable area must remain under sheds, tack rooms or restaurants.
