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California By Kent Cochran Argentine Stars Eye Hollypark Stakes Californians Who Tried to Win Derby Says LatinBreds Dont Miss Home Lingo LingoBAY BAY MEADOWS San Mateo Calif May 2 Ar gentinabreds seem destined to be much in the public eye at Hollywood Park The International Stable which imported and then sold the three outstanding stakes winners Pibe CarlitosHolandes n and Eugenic has nominate four horses to the Hollywood Gold Cup Alexandra Rumbo Omelia and El Locro and three to the Calif ornian Rumbo Omelia and Nenuchio n A spokesman for the stable said that eight of the remaining horses in the barn will be named for the Argonaut Inglewood Vanity American and Sunset handicaps fore nominations for these stakes close later on Trainer Bob Roberts will of course name Holandes n trainer Willie Wyndle will nominate Eugenio and Punilla Ray Camp will have Pibe Carlitos and Luis Elortondo will have a few from among those he flew in from Buenos Aires to Inglewood two weeks ago agoThumbing Thumbing backwards through Kentucky Derby form charts we note the Californians who have tried to win the blue riband Many tried only four succeeded Last year Rex Ellsworth with Terrang 12th 1955 Ells ¬ worth Swaps won Harry Warner Honeys Alibi 7th 1954 Andy Crevolin Determine won Bob Lytle Cor ¬ relation 6th Harry James James Session 8th 1953 Mrs Gordon Guiberson Correspondent 5thr Ed Goe mans Curragh King 10th 1952 Mrs Guiberson Ar roz 7th 1950 Bill Goetz Your Host 9th 1949 J Hal Seley Duplicator 8th 1948 Mrs John Payson Adams Grandpere 5th 1947 Earl Stice and Sons On Trust 4th Harry Warner W L Sickle 8th and Stepfather 9th 1945 Mrs Charles S Howard Sea Swallow 7th 1944 George Poulson Broadcloth 2nd 1942 T D Pinkey Grimes With Regards 4th E C A Berger Boot and Spur 15th 1941 Hugh Nesbit Staretor 2nd Charlie Howard Porters Cap 4th Cleaveland Putnam Swain llth 1940 C S Howard Moland 4th 1938 Myron Selznik Cant Wait 3rd 1937 Raoul Walsh Sunset Trail n 16th 1932 Norman Church Gallant Sir 8th 1930 Walter Hoffman Longus 6th 1924 Charlie Hartwell Cannon Shot 12th 1918 A Kings ley Macomber War Cloud 4th 1917 Macomber War Star Star Master and Star Gazer 5th 9th and 10th 1916 Macomber Star Hawk and The Cock 2nd and 6th 1904 Mrs C E Durnell Elwood won 1886 James Ben Ali Haggin Ben Ali won Lucky Baldwin Lijero 4th Helbush Rooting for Gallant Man ManWe We know one stallion owner in California who will be rooting for Gallant Man to win the Derby He is Herman H Helbush Helbush owns Poona n and Poona n is closely related to Gallant Man Poona ns granddanv Majideh is the dam of Gallant Man Poona n won the Santa Anita Handicap and other stakes Now if Gallant Man can take the Derby it would en ¬ hance Poona ns potential popularity as a future sire The two horses common maternal ancestor Harpsi ¬ chord dam of Majideh is the dam of Royal Minstrel and Hairan HairanAn An usually responsible news source caused us to goof in a recent paragraph about Eugenio wherein it was stated the horse preferred his native Spanish language to American Not so Bob Roberts trained him here last fall when he won the Anita King Handicap and was second to Holandes n in the Bay Meadows Handi ¬ cap So the rumor that horses imported from Latin speaking countries pine for the language of their home ¬ land must be labelled a myth Certainly Holandes n has run as well if not better under Bobs American methods than he did when he was being groomed by the Argentineans Holandes n has won three stakes and finished second in three others since coming to Cali ¬ fornia last fall and he undoubtedly was the best horse in the Santa Anita Handicap in which he was giving much weight to Corn Husker Then there have been Kayak n Sorteado Olhaverry and many other horses up from South America who performed brilliantly for trainers and grooms who used harsh American AmericanTrial Trial Mating Produces a Winner WinnerGeorge George Covert owner of the promising young sire Anyoldtime whose two starters to date won at first asking uses the stakeswinning Tops Boy as a teach ¬ er at his Tracy Farm To provide incentive for the son of Top Row Covert breeds him for free to a few mares owned by neighbors and once he covered one of Co ¬ verts own mare Petite Erne The mare obliged by producing Steam Ahead a twoyearold who finished second on Tuesday Admiral Drakes first crop seems to be doing all right Brown Drake won Tuesday and Polly Drake raced well at Santa Anita AnitaJerry Jerry and Betty Margulis of Portland spent a week visiting friends in Southern California and enjoying Bay Meadows racing Superior Court Judge Hugh Todd of Seattle who as a private lawyer led the fight to put the racing law on Washingtons statutes in 1932 a visitor with wife Dorothy Judge Todd has never missed a day at Longacres which makes him the cham ¬ pion racing attender of all time so far as known for thafrtrack opened in 1933 Jointly Tom and Elsie Elsiei i t i I A I Ross and Phil Klipstein had nearly 30 horses under trainer Reggie Cornell Albert Yank made four los ¬ ing bets here last Saturday then got a wrong number ticket and it won I couldnt win by design but I could through error he laughed laughedWillie Willie Shoemaker who will be up on Gallant Man in the Kentucky Derby has been riding a little more than eight years since breaking his maiden on Shafter V at GoldenGate April 4 1949 His total score now stands at round 2785 and that is more than four times as many as Johnny Longden got in his first nine years three times as many of Ralph Neves got and more than twice as many as were credited to Eddie Arcaro in his f irist nine years If Shoe Jceeps on at his present clip his record will eclipse all other of history thats for sure T i J V A r
