New Jersey Report, Daily Racing Form, 1954-05-12

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NEW JERSEY REPORT I By FRED GALIANI Continued from Page Five i saddled R. N. Websters Sorceress to win the Juvenile dash... Young Bob Levys four horses have come off the farm and are now getting ready for the wars again. Hueso, the star of the stable, is being pointed for the Carter Handicap. There are two juveniles in the quartet, one of them a half brother to Imbros, by Page Boots out of Fire Falls. "We got him for ,300 at the sales," remarked Bob, "and its good Imbros didnt start winning all those races until after we bought him." AAA Tommy Dowd, assistant to Riggs Ma-hony, leaves for Detroit Wednesday where he will be mutuels manager at the Michigan Racing Association meeting, which opens May 21 for a 56-day run. The death of Lou Fredrick yesterday had Tommy reminiscing. Fredrick had been on the tracks 60 years, over 40 with the mutuels. Tommy recalled when the machines first came to Saratoga and he and Lou were on the job. "We went to a little place down the hill, you know where it is, and -there was a picture on the wall taken of a picnic at Saratoga in 1890. Lou, a young fellow then, among the crowd. His father was a bookmaker on the tracks." AAA Jockey Red Howell checked in from New England and plans, to swing into action soon... Four Freedoms, who was leased from Greeritree Stable and Del Holeman, has covered 25 mares at Woodland Farm, where he is now standing. Four Freedoms was leased by the Leslie Jane Stable... Ecuador jockey Walter Carrion turned in some good riding in his brief appearances. He has ridden in four races, winning two and finishing a third and fourth. The South American won the last two races Monday.


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