Hooper Colt Never Headed in Taking Your Host Purse: Travels Three-Quarters in 1:09 4/5 at Arlington to Beat Jet Colonel and Barbizon, Daily Racing Form, 1957-06-21

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► p ; — „lL 1 "/ [ ; ~ ; , , , | ! ; Hooper Colt Never Headed [In Taking Your Host Purse Travels Three-Quarters in 1 :09% at Arlington to Beat Jet Colonel and Barbizon By JOE HIRSCH ARLINGTON PARK, Arlington Heights, 111., June 20.— Fred W. Hoopers Greek Game, winner of the Arlington and Washington Park Futurities last year and generally considered the best two-year-old in the Midwest, made a triumphant return to the races in todays featured Your Host Purse. The strapping son of Olympia and Sunday Supper, who broke a splint bone in his right foreletf last winter and hadnt started since the Fuiurity at Belmont on October 13, was a length and one-quarter to the good of Reverie Knolls Jet Colonel in this six-furlong test, with Calumet Farms Barbizon just another neck back. P. A. B. Wideners Mince Pie, who was eight lengths behind Barbizon, completed the small but elite field-Armour Memorial Nxt Greek Game, wher earned 14,805 last season, more than any 4ther juvenile, skipped the six panels in ft fcrisk l:094,s under top weight of 126 pounds and led every step of the way, registering fractions of :22% and :44% en route. Co-fayorite at 7-to-5~with Jet Colonel, Greek Game paid .80, with no show wagering. The winner is scheduled to run back in the seven-furlong Laurance Armour Memorial on June 29 and then will-go in the 00,000 Arlington Classic on July 13 at a flat mile. Heckmann turned in his usual able ride aboard Greek Game, who was well received upon his return to the winners circle by the 10,817 who turned out in pleasantly cool racing weather. Hooper, a Florida construction magnate, was present with his two sons and seemed well pleased with the colts race, as he should have been. Greek Game earned ,750 of a 0,000purse. Johnny Heckmann, who tripled here on Tuesday, came through with another trio of triumphs this afternoon. The 25-year-old New Orleans reinsman scored with Emil Denemarks Mangam in the fourth race and Mrs. William Tannenbaums American Pluck in the seventh as well as with Greek Game in the feature. Heckmann got Greek Game off winging Continued on Page Fifty-Two FRED W. HOOPER-Owner-breeder of Greek Game, who launched his 1957 campaign with a smashing victory yesterday at Arlington Park. Greek Game Returns In Auspicious Fashion Never Headed in Your Host Purse "in First 1957 Start Continued from Page One and the big brown horse was two lengths in front after a few steps. Jet Colonel, raced closest to the leader along the rail, while Mince Pie, who got off poorly, was third, when Barbizon dropped back. Greek Game continued to lead -by two lengths around the far turn, with Jet Colonel now four lengths in front of Barbizon, who had begun to move under Bill Hartack. Straightening into the stretch, Jet Colonel closed some ground and was only a head off the pacemaker at the eighth pole. Here, Heckmann called on the winner and he pulled away encouragingly. Barbizon raced fairly well through the final eighth and almost came abreast of the ground-saving Jet Colonel, although neither was able to seriously threaten Greek Game. Mince Pie was outdistanced. A couple of outsiders were successful in the first two races and the Daily Double paid 48.80. The first winner was Sun David, an old-timer who was taking his first purse in two years. Ridden by jockey Kenneth Church, the 10-year-old got to the front after leaving the backstretch to score over Luciete, with Willie Hartack up. The distance was six furlongs. Zing, a three-year-old maiden who had not been close in four previous attempts, came very fast through the stretch to catch the well-played Nissy near the end of the second and win going away. Splitter, the favorite, finished fourth in the six-furlong sprint. Apprentice Jimmy Preston rode the winner. Nine maiden three-year-old fillies went in the third, and French Miss, who was imported to this country by Ralph Lowe, won her first race in two starts. Jerry Truman, rider of Easy Jean, who finished second, claimed foul against French Miss, but the claim was not allowed. John Dela-houssaye rode French Miss.


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