Sea Swell Annexes Olympia Fields; Silky Sullivan Works for Preakness: Hasty House Import Outruns Pineapple; Favored Rockmoore Third in Balmoral Event; Heckmann Stars With Four Winners, Daily Racing Form, 1958-05-14

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J9CKEY JOHN HECKMANN Scored with four of his mounts on yesterdays Balmoral meeting to give him six suc ¬ cesses for the twodayold meeting Sea Swell Annexes Olympic Fields Silky Sullivan Works for Preakness Hasty House Import Outruns Pineapple PineappleFavored Favored Rockrnoore Third in Balmoral Event Heckmann Stars With Four Winners By J J MURPHY MURPHYWASHINGTON WASHINGTON PARK Homewood HI May 13 Hasty House Farm provided the winner of the sixth race here this after ¬ noon when their threeyearold Sea Swell took the Olympia Fields Purse on the bill With jockey John Heckmann riding his second winner of the day Sea Swell an outsider registered by four lengths from Pineapple another longshot while Rock moore the favorite saved third money The distance was seven furlongs and Sea Swell an English importation paid 1880 Ic was his second success of the year yearRockmoore Rockmoore carrying top weight of 122 pounds was out of the gate alertly in what was a poor start with Volcanite beating the others away and Hill Country and Santiago being off poorly Rockmoore was hustled into a onelength lead in the first quarter by Charlie Burr and at the end of the first halfmile was three lengths to the good The gelding saved ground enter ¬ ing the stretch but both Pineapple who had been second and Sea Swell who had been improving his position on the outside were challenging challengingSummerlike Summerlike Weather and Fast Track I Heckman earned off riding honors with four winners for liis days work Following t his score astride Sea Swell he won the jsev enth race with Iranian and then came back in the eighth to tally with Styrunner Pineapple and Sea Swell moved to Rock ¬ moore at midstretch but Sea Swell clearly the best was soon in front The Hasty House colt had no trouble handling the situation for the rest of the trip with Pineapple beating Rockmoore by two lengths for second place The attendance attendanceContinued Continued on Page Eight Sea Swell Outruns Pineapple In Balmorals Olympiq Fields Favored Rockmoore Is Third Hasty House Import Among Heckmanns Four Winners WinnersContinued Continued from Page One Onein in summerlike weather was 8821 and the track was fast fastJohn John Sellers had two winners in the early part of the program winning the second race to wind up a 32500 Daily Double with Judge N H and scoring in the fourth with Blue Licks Sellers put up a similar ride in each instance reserving his mount close to the pace in the early run ¬ ning and sending them to the front frontMaiden Maiden twoyearold colts clashed in the first race arid the fairly well backed Cream nikt owned by Frances Center and saddled by MelvinCalvert was the winner The distance was 5 furlongs and Creamnik was making his fourth start The son of Teddys Comet All Cream ridden by John Heck mann was in front most of the way wayBishops Bishops Whiz Lady Wins WinsWilliam William Hal Bishops silks were seen in front for the first time at the meeting when the twoyearold filly Whiz Lady edged out Hey Diddle in the third It was a 5furlong race and Whiz Lady was re ¬ peating a victory scored in her last start which was at Laurel Clarence Meaux was in the saddle saddleH H D Maggios Turbo Fire graduated from the maiden ranks in the fifth at the expense of Southern Seas who was a short priced favorite Oil Light set the pace but Turbo Fire caught him in the stretch to win by well over one length under the handlingof Charlie Burr The distance was six furlongs


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