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WASHINGTON NOTEBOOK y j. j. murphy WASHINGTON PARK, Home-wood, 111., Aug. 24. It is very likely that Hasty Road, who finished third in last Saturdays Prairie State Stakes, was the best colt. He was off from an outer post position, required to race very wide, and jockey Arcaro said he stumbled at one stage of the trip. Hasty Road, who took the Ar lington Futurity, is regarded by the stable as a much better colt than his running companion, Son O Erin, who was the winner. ... It is to be hoped that Native Dancer will come this way some time again. He made quite a hit even with those who were pulling against him. However, that winds up his engagements in Chicagoland this season. Perhaps he will be back as a four-year-old. ... It -was expected that the pari-mutuel place pool might be minus, but it wasnt, although the Dancer paid the minimum to place. . . . Landlockeds 5,000 second money was well earned. The visitor ran a good sound race. . . . Saturdays crowd was the third largest in Washington Parks history. . . . Wagering was about 00,000 less than the all-time high set Labor Day, 1946. . . . Native Dancers win pushed the Vanderbilts about ,000 in front of the Calumets as the leading money-winning stable of the year. The totals: Vanderbilt, 89,755; Calumet, 88,752. That Calumet money was earned chiefly by Mark-Ye-Well. Others figuring in were Chanlea, Fleet Bird, A Gleam and Arrogate, all on the West Coast, and Hill Gail and Real Delight the latter took the Matron. Native Dancer has accounted for 13,415 of the Vanderbilt "loot." The Dancers all-time earnings are now 43,920. He has 3,555 to make up before catching Armed, the third leading money-winner of all time. . . . Just to show how the Daily Double has grown in popularity, the combination pool Saturday was 1,000 more than that of the aforementioned Labor Day, 1946. Hasty Road Ran Good Race in Prairie State Vanderbilt and Calumet Are Close in Earnings Diamond Jimmy Moran Wears Necktie of Mink Dixiana Sells Six Horses in Six-Day Period Chicago racegoers "got a load" of Diamond Jimmy Moran for the first time Saturday. The New Orleans restaurateur, a familiar figure at the Kentucky Derby each year, arrived at the course in an open convertible with police escort, and paraded- his diamond bedecked personality before the crowd. One of the highlights of his raiment was a necktie about five inches wide, fashioned from the skin of a gray mink. . . . Guests of Alfred Vanderbilt here Saturday were Gerald Brady, general manager of Tropical Park, and Robert Kasso, of New York. They flew in from the east and just managed to arrive in time for the first race of the day. ... A visitor from Dublin was John Conway, Eires consul in Chicago. He was making his first trip to Washington Park and was the guest of Coleman Kelly, noted authority on Irish thoroughbreds. Conway was very much interested in Native Dancer, as he favors gray horses. Said he had never seen a faulty gray. AAA George Gardner, public relations man for Hawthorne, is getting itchy feet awaiting the opening of the West Side plant, September 8. . . . Louis Meen, of Momence, 111., was one of the participants in the annual gladiola festival and parade held in that town Sunday. . . . Howard Reineman came up from Kentucky to take in the Ameri- can Derby. Helen remained home to look after the stock. . . . Robert Thorne, prominent Akron, Ohio, sportsman, was a visitor on Derby Day. . . . Lucky Lick, a three-year-old gelding owned by Max Kahlbaum, died of bronchial pneumonia over the week end. . . . Doug Dodson has been engaged to ride Happy Go Lucky in the Washington Park Handicap. . . . Johnny Adams will ride Bella Figura in the Beverly Handicap. . . . Trainer S. A. Birosak will ship the horses of Howard Jones to Las Vegas at the end of this meeting. . . . J. W. Snider sold Criteria, a useful racer, to Leon Schlosser. . . . William Hal Bishop sold Very Special to E. R. Morris, and Nick Burger will do the training. . . . John Heckmann has been engaged to ride Vantage for owner Marion VanBerg in the Meadowland Handicap. ... Light Broom has been shipped to North . Randall. AAA Ike Bassett, of the Jockeys Guild, who but recently returned from a swing around the midwestern racing circuit, departed on another tour. This time around the same circuit once again. . . . Belated letter from Frank Orion, a Native Dancer enthusiast of Flushing, N. Y., objecting to Arcaros having the mount on The Dancer. However, in this instance Eddie did all right. . . . Trainer Joe Bellero has taken a trip to Lexington to look over the yearlings owned by his patron, Joseph Tomlinson, of Oakville, Ont., Canada. . . . Frank Bartecki, a Chicago man, has purchased Hearts Content, Industrious and Sunset Star from Dixiana, and they will be trained by Louis Bolewski, who has had considerable success in caring for and conditioning thoroughbreds Apprentice Henry Ford, having served out his suspension, will resume Continued on Page Thirty-Nine . Washington Notebook By J. J. MURPHY Continued from Page Forty-Eight i riding Tuesday. . . . Miss Mildred Wool-; wine, who operates a breeding farm in ; Kentucky, is visiting from Lexington. AAA. Sunglow and Picador, two fine grass runners, will be here to take part in Saturdays Meadwoland Handicap; They are due to arrive here Tuesday in charge of Elliott Burch, son of trainer Preston Burch of Brookmeade Farm. Jockey Charlie Burr, regarded as one of the best of Americas young riders, and the jockey champion of 1951, will be along to ride one or the other. . . . Tom Pruett is visiting here from his home in Centralia, 111. . . . The Sunny Blue Farm have purchased Song-let from Dixiana and J. A. Litrell will do the training. This makes six horses that Dixiana has sold within the past week. . . . Trainer Noble Threewitt left for -Kentucky to look over some horses. It is reported that the Benton, 111., man will have charge of a division of the Ada L. Rice string on the West Coast this winter. Howard Hoffman will probably take the others to Florida. . . . Racing secretary Frank Kilroe returned safely from a flying trip to New I York.
