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r. Can trust Reubens Third Starter Hasty Road Second In 1954 Renewal Hasty House Farm Owners In Sport About 12 Years; Trotsek*Began as Jockey CHURCHILL DOWNS. Louisville. Ky.. May 2. — AUie and Billie Reuben, owners of Hasty House Farm and the Derby factor Can Trust, are familiar and popular figures on the American racing scene although, as luck would have it, this will mark only their third starter in a Kentucky Derby. The best showing was their first.ln 1954, with speedy and gritty Hasty Road, who ran a formidable second to Determine. In in 1954, Sea O Erin was fifteenth. But both horses went on to successful racing careers in top handicap company. The Reubens have been in thoroughbred racing only about 12 years. Prior to that they had showed horses for almost 30 years as well as hunters and jumpers. The Reubens take their stable name. Hasty House, from their farm house-home property near Toledo, Ohio, where Reuben is inthe securities and real estate business. Originally, the showplace was the home of a family named Hasty, which settled on. the acreage more than 100 years ago. Successful Importer of Foreign Stock Reuben has been a consistent buyer of yearlings at the Keeneland sales, and also has become known as a major importer of English, Irish and French stock. One of his best known imports was the grass specialist Mahan. Hasty Road, incidentally, is now in stud at Howard Reinemans Crown Crest Farm, Lexington. Trainer Harry Trotsek hardly needs any introduction to the American racing public, for he long has been high on the list of leading trainers. He was born in Cicero, 111., and that of course means near the Hawthorne race track. Trotsek started out to become a rider, but he is the first to admit he never was very good at it. Trotsek, although perhaps a poor rider, had an affinity, or knack, of understanding horses around the stable. It was only natural that he soon should ALLIE E. REUBEN — Can Trust will carry his Hasty House Farm colors. take up training. His rise in that profession was rapid, and since hitting the upper brackets of the ranks of American trainers, he has stayed there. Hes been on the race track all his life except for about six months a few years back when he took a vacation at the insistence of his doctors. In addition to having saddled Hasty Road and Sea O Erin for the Derby in the interest of Reuben, Trotsek also saddled Oil Capitol, who dead-heated for fifth with Hawley in the 1950 Derby. Oil Capitol was racing in the interests of Tom Gray of Tulsa.
