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New England By Friil Galiani Al Dyleski Typical Yankeeland Horseman ExFuller Brushman Now Happy Trainer Relates Disastrous Breeding Venture VentureLINCOLN LINCOLN DOWNS Lincoln B L May 2 Trainers like wild flowers in the spring just pop up They come from all walks of life A good majority of them arrive at the profession through family ties but in recent years with the phenomenal upsurge of the sport they have swarmed over from var ¬ ious careers Usually the process works like this They become race fans the owner bug bites them they buy horses and hire a train ¬ er With some the passage of time is longer than others but eventually most of them take out trainers licenses And then as the the years flow by they lose the title JCL and become what is known as a veteran of the sport The pattern was adhered to perfectly by Al Dyleski who is here training his string of six horses A strapping darkhaired chap whose ruddy complex ¬ ion is invariably wreathed in smiles Dyleski a native of Lawrence Mass was once a Puller brush man manWhen When he was 21 back in the depths of the depres ¬ sion Al was the leading salesman with the company and had charge of the entire Merrimac Valley area Things were rolling good so it was natural that when racing came back to the Northeast Dyleski became a fan Then it happened In 1938 he bought a twoyearold filly For a year he was just an owner but then Al iook out a trainers license And he has been one ever since with the exception of a year and a half from 1949 to 1951 when he was wiped out by a fire at Lin coln Downs and various other ailments that hit his racing stock Then Dyleski reverted to his old pro ¬ fession of selling but that only lasted for a time The lure of the track was too strong and it wasnt long until he was back in action Over the years Dyleski has had moderate success One thing though he has no in ¬ tentions of being a breeder He tried it once with disas trous and expensive results resultsLearning Learning It the Hard Way WayI I went for that phase of racing only once recalls Al But I had to do it just right I had this nice mare Silver Rose who was a good 10000 mare and could run six furlongs in ten When I decided to breed her I picked out a stud like Polynesian whose fee was about 350Qt r got a booking put the mare on a van and went to Claiborne Farm As a matter of fact 1 wound up doing most pf the driving of the van to Kentucky Then I stayed there for 10 days to make sure every ¬ thing was going all right After she was bred Silver Rose was sent over to Tollie Youngs farm to be boarded When I got home and started figuring out what it had cost me that far and for future board bills I found out I had gone for about 7000 Thats just too much for me Finally continued Dyleski Silver Rose came back to our farm in Massachusetts She looked well and as if she was in foal But nothing ever happened And there was no return for the booking to Polynesian except a free service if we wanted it In a way I was glad that she never did have a foal I might have had another headache I chalked it ail up to experience but it sure put an end to any ideas I might have had about breeding horses Thats strictly a rich mans game When you come down to it it sure is if you want to breed to topline blood That is one of the failings of the New England breeding industry one which sagely enough is being corrected Cheap mares were bred to cheap sires and the resulting offspring was naught John Maddens oftquoted philosophy still ap ¬ pears to be the best Breed the best to the best and hope for the best bestHBPA HBPA Members Discuss Stall Problem ProblemAt At a meeting of the local division of the Horsemens Benevolent and Protective Association Tuesday night the stall problem the biggest headache for any race track or horseman was discussed But thats about all because there can only be discussions as the number of horses far exceed the amount of stalls available The situation at Lincoln is particularly acute because there are some 400 less stalls here than at Suffolk Nar ragansett and Rockingham And as it is the first meet ¬ ing in the sector it causes another problem in that it shuts out a lot of horsemen who figure they wont make the circuit Lincoln has tried to alleviate the situ ¬ ation by increasing its area one new barn being built over the past winter but more are needed Stalls are still Lincolns biggest migraine migraineThe The local pride and glory Sam Tufanos Wise Mar ¬ gin checked hi this morning from the Jay Gee Farm in New Jersey where he spent the winter Wise Margin has not started since he set a track record of 337 in the two mile and a sixteenth Pimlico Cup last fall Sam Edmundson was walking around with his left arm in a sling He suffered a broken collarbone when whenContinued Continued on Page Fourteen FourteenV V J 6 5 fc t NEW ENGLAND ENGLANDBy By FRED GALIANI Continued from Page Six Sixthrown thrown while working out Louis T on the farm Jockey Marshall Wilder who broke his leg in a gate accident at Nar ragansett last summer was a visitor this morning He hopes to resume galloping soon and return to riding by the Suffolk meeting Dino Romoli Bill Calvert and Eddie Pressy of Buddy Wingfields starting crew will commence schooling this Monday at Suffolk Downs Reports from up that way have it that track superin ¬ tendent Joe Tomasello has the strip in ex ¬ cellent shape shapeSympathy Sympathy is extended to colleague Frank Capone whose sister Rose died Wednesday after a long illness Dave Barbaglia maitre de at the famous Brook Manor is a regular in the turf cluto during the after ¬ noons Jockey Dick Winant who was sidelined by a shoulder injury here when he was the leading jockey is in Physicians Hospital Jamaica L I where Tony De Spirito is also undergoing treatment Bobby Goldman of the Suffolk Downs pub ¬ licity staff made his first appearance on Wednesday since undergoing surgery last month Big Bear will be back on the job when the East Boston meeting rolls around Herbie Fisher checked in from Miami and registered the horses Acclivity My Friend Acepot Platterpuss Legend Roman Numeral and Argold Herb will also take over the handling of Super Bug and Re ¬ questing who were in Dick DeStasios care here the early part of the meeting E B Stewart and jockey Eddie Cape de ¬ parted the local scene and headed for Garden State which opens this week end J E Virginia Robertson and his pa ¬ tron Barney Lazarus are back from a threeday trip to The Plains Va where they inspected some racing stock
