New England: Fairbanks Rodeo Experience Comes In Handy; Hangs On as Mount Clips Heels of Another Horse; Trainer Mark Sarian Suffering With Seconditis, Daily Racing Form, 1957-05-01

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New England By Fred GaKam Fairbanks Rodeo Experience Comes In Handy Hangs On as Mount Clips Heels of Another Horse Trainer Mark Sarian Suffering With Seconditis SeconditisLINCOLN LINCOLN DOWNS Lincoln R I April 30 If ex ¬ perience is the best teacher it is fortunate that jockey Allen Fairbanks was an apt pupil during his days of rodeo riding before he switche the race track Monday after ¬ noon during the running of the fourth race Fairbanks put on an exhibition of clinging to a horse that was more artistic than any ¬ thing he could have done in the rodeo ring Fairbanks was on Warm Ace and rounding the clubhouse turn his mount clipped the heels of Le Jour who was in front of him Let Allen take it from there This morning in the jockeys room he relived the incident When my horse stumbled he threw me over his head and I wound up clinging under his neck I was grabbing for anything Now Im holding on for dear life but I have to bail out or else Ill trip my horse up and hell fall right over me But I couldnt see the rest of the field and I didnt want to let go until I knew they were clear of me meNorman Norman Mercier was on the inside of me con ¬ tinued Fairbanks and he saw what I was trying to do so he yelled over at me keeping me posted and telling me when to let go Finally I hear Mercier cry out that it was O K to bail out and thats what I did Actually Fairbanks did some running alongside of his mount for about 70 yards before he went prone on his face And as someone said he was a length in front for the first 30 yards All spills to observers look drastic and happily enough a great majority prove to be spectac ¬ ular but not injurious to riders or horses But the danger is prevalent in every race Mondays spill was a cpncrete example of how riders in a given situation can help avert any injury injuryFellow Fellow Riders React Quickly QuicklyWhen When Fairbanks went flying and wound up desper ¬ ately hanging on like a drowning man on a life raft his comrades reacted quickly With Mercier playing lookout and giving him instructions the rest of the boys took care to give the hapless pair plenty of racing room It was a case of everyone being on the qui vive Carelessness was the cause of the tragic accident to Tony DeSpirito at Laurel last spring resulting in in ¬ juries that may untimely end the career of one of Americas foremost riders When DeSpirito went down with his horse he was on the outside of the field and was not hurt in the tumble He was sitting on the track when a straggler came up the jockey riding with his head down and not looking where he was going The practically riderless horse plowed right over DeSpirito The result is a sorry tale Fairbanks was more fortunate Spills are one of the hazards of the sport and Fairbanks takes them philosophically Or rather with experience As he said I got banged up more in one day at the rodeos than I did in three years of race riding at the tracks Ride em cowboy cowboyFrustration Frustration personified around here at the moment is trainer Mark Sarian who has seven consecutive sec ¬ onds with the last eight horses he has sent to the post Enough to drive a guy to betting show Sarian went winter racing at Sunshine Park this past January for the first time in some years but it will probably be the last according to him The best place to winter horses is in South Carolina says Sarian and he plans a re ¬ turn to the Iodine State this coming year Arthur Furley track photographer at Suffolk Downs and Nar ragansett is back from a vacation in Florida and has opened his office at the East Boston plant Pictures will be coming out shortly from the seaside track a sure sign the meeting is not too far off Angelo Moretti business manager for the hotel and restaurant employees and Herb Keef e were out at the races Mon ¬ day after returning from a convention in Chicago They made the trip over the newly connected turnpike system which enables one to go nonstop from New York to the Windy City CityDattilo Dattilo Recalls Rockingham Incident IncidentJoe Joe Dattilo has long been a familiar figure around New England tracks and is getting a few mounts now and then Joe was a corking race rider and was riding high wide and handsome until he broke his leg in a spill in 1944 in New Orleans Contract rider for the powerful Valdina Farms then he was out 15 months but won with the very first mount of his comeback Joe Gorgas Able Joe still walks with a limp as a result of his acci ¬ dent but it doesnt impair his riding any But of all the races Joe has won over the years he recalls with relish an event at Rockingham Park back in the early 1940s Tommy Queen Jr in recent years a trainer reduced 15 pounds to make a comeback and ride one of his fathers horses It was the first time in eight years young Queen had ridden Dattilo then a bug promptly beat him a nose That ended Queens comeback He immediately hung up his tack with the remark When I get beat by a bug Im through throughAfter After an absence of two years from the training ranks Jackpot Kelly is back in action Kelly just pur ¬ chased Big Patricia a twoyearold black filly by Mae runway out of Dynaflow from Anthony Ryan The youngster is slated to make her debut shortly E E Glasses Miles is contemplating a trip to New York YorkContinued Continued oit PogFifte6 NEW ENGLAND ENGLANDBy By FRED GALIANI Continued from Page Six Sixwhere where he hopes to be able to buy a horse or two The switch from training horses to an officials post is nothing new in racing but Stanley Marino does it con ¬ stantly In the spring and fall he condi ¬ tions horses but during the summer he gives them up to be a patrol judge on the Massachusetts fair circuit Thus far at the meeting Marino has won two races with his Vigor Willard Prickett is expecting the arrival of eight horses from the farm at St Matthews S C for the Suffolk Downs meeting which will bring his string to 24 for the East Boston session


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