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♦ I Monmouth Memos By FRED GAUANI Condition Book Changes Career Piarulli Gaye Up Law for Turf Got Start at New Jersey Tracks MONMOUTH PARK, Oceanport, N. J., June 17;— Because a condition book held more interest than a musty volume of torts, Joe Piarulli is now a licensed trainer of horses rather than a lawyer. Then o w 29-year - old lad from Camden, N. J., was all set to begin law school at Rutgers College after he was graduated from La Salle College, Pa., when at the last minutehe suddenly realized that he preferred the glamour of the race tracks to anything a career in law would offer, and decided to follow his choice. As he puts it, "When I was in school, I always had a book on one side of me and the Racing Form on the other. I finally made up my mind that it had to be one or the other, so I decided to take a try at the horse business for a year and if I didnt make a go of it, I would go back to school. That was a couple of-years ago, and here I am. I have a bachelor of arts degree in education and even, did practice teaching for a while. "My father has had horses for about" 10 years, ever since they revived racing: in New Jersey and I was also interested in them. During: the summer months in school, I used to spend my vacation around them. I worked at the Helis farm for a couple of years and was always around the barn learning: what I could. I also spent some time with Lou Steffan, who also gave me my start. In the winter of 1951 he didnt have time to spare from his business, and he asked me if I would help him with his stable. I went to Maryland early in the year, grot a license and helped get his horses ready. , Later in the year, I took over my dads horses and some others and my first winner came at the Atlantic City meeting with Joiner, then owned by Frank Yaco-yelli. That, naturally, was the biggest thrill of my life. I havent done too badly since then. Last year I had 12 winners with a stable that never averaged more than five head. I guess rye won about 21 races since Ive had a license." Father Frank, who has varied interests around Camden, including a gas and oil business, a bakery and a clothing store, is the owner of the stable, while one of Joes younger brothers, Mike, has carried on to bring a lawyer into the family, now in the law school of the University of Pennsylvania, while a still younger brother, Guy, is currently in Korea in service. "I know one thing," said Joe, "whenever we run a horse at the Garden State meetings, half of Camden is out betting on it. You can tell that by the prices we get." At present he has six horses for his father and is expanding by taking on horses for other patrons. He is also conditioning two for the D and G Stable, which is owned by Doctors Decinque and Germanio, both of Camden one for Jack Manera, and has just added a new owner . in Anthony Galiozzi. All of his employers are from Camden, with the exception of Manera. The curly, brown-haired lad, who wears thick tortoised shell glasses, is currently single, but thats a state that will be changed before long, because at the end of the New Jersey season he will wed Miss Louisa Jane Mosley, of Collins-wood, N. J. After our conversation, Joe went out to saddle Joiner, the horse who gave him his first winner, to finish third and Count Cavour, who wound up second. Jockey Buddy Root, along with trainer Jim Arthur and agent Maurice Arons, returned to Delaware after riding Tampero in the third race. . .Horace Wade is handling stall applications for the Hazel Park meeting, which he serves as racing secretary. . .Trainer Bill Mitchell will send J. L. McKnights Blue Rhymer, who ran away from a number of Regret Handicap rivals here the other day, back in the filly and mare stake on Saturday. . .Glen Lasswell makes another of his out of town engagements on Saturday when he journeys to Delaware Park to .handle J. C. Bradys Landlocked in the Leonard Richards Stakes. Hell be back in action here tomorrow and Friday after a day at Suffolk Downs. . .Veteran jockey Jimmy De Witt will handle Harborvale Stables Dark Peter Continued on Page Thhty-Nine Monmouth Memos By FRED, GALIANI Continued from Pe§e Two in the Carter Handicap at Aqueduct a week from Saturday. Word has seeped up from Timonium that general manager Johnny Hell was giving John Schapiro the business before the latter left on his trip to Europe. Heil maintains hell put the Washington, D. C, International race out of business by running "The Continental" at Timonium. This race will have four horses running oyer the turf course and four on the regular track, the latter naturally being given a head start because of the added distance that must be covered. What, no quarter horses? . . . Placing judge Stanley Gillespie always refers to Greentrees ace handicap horse as Tom "Nobodys" Fool... John A. Morris, president of the Metropolitan Jockey Club and the TRA, watched the running of the fourth race from announcer Morris Tobes booth, in company with Amory L. Haskell, whose Tall Iris competed, though without success, in the race. Regular at the meeting is Mrs. Edna Johnston, of nearby Freehold, whose husband is the executive vice-president of the Laird Distilleries in Scobeyville. . .Jimmy "The Baron" Gray, the groom with the Ezio Pinza complex, who is in continual song as he walks "hots" under the shed, formerly with trainer Bill Mitchell is now yodeling for trainer Lloyd Murray.. .Have just received a letter from Muggins Feld-man, at Delaware Park, saying that-he has reluctantly resigned as captain of the golf press team, which he led to victory over the officials for the first time in three years last week. The strain proved too much for him, with the result that his own game suffered, it says here, and therefore in the return match tomorrow night .the press will have to play under someone elses leadership.
