Evening star., 1938-12-25
Boroni Pays $500 for Tiny
Horse, Cleans Up 5000, 900;
Roman Soldier q Nuqqet
BY MAX HILL.
Associated Press Sports Writer.

BY MAX HILL,
Associated Press Sports Writer.
NEW YORK, Dec. 24.-Bargain
horses sometimes 60 begging at the
race tracks, and not even the wisest
Of trainers can say where or when
the next one will turn up.
That smart horseman from Ne
vada, A. A. Baroni, who named his
stable Silver State in honor Of his
home, little thought he had Santa
Anita Handicap winner in his care
when he picked up Top Row, tiny
son Of Peanuts, for So, 500 in a claim
Ing race.
It isn't often that you can pile up
a $200, 900 bankroll from a $500 in
vestment, but that's what Baroni
did with Top Row. He not only won
the second running Of the Santa
Anita, but he won plenty of other
stakes and handicaps, too.
Some years back the auctioneer Or
dered an ungainly black colt led into
the ring at the Saratoga yearling
sales. Talk and wheedle as he
might he couldn't get bid. Nobody
wanted the frightened black son OF
Cohort circling the ring.
After the sale, Max Hirsch, who
now trains for the King Ranch, took
p closer look and thought he might
offer $3.50 He got the colt, and sent
him off to North Carolina. He named
the colt Roman Soldier, and before
he got through with the races he
had piled up $9l 900 in purses for Ell
wood SachSenmaier, whose father
bought him from Hirsch for $4,000
AS a 3-year-old he ran second in
Omaha's Kentucky Derby.
Last summer at Saratoga sandy
haired young trainer who used to
be jockey was doing some Whistful
thinking about temperamental
mare called Rougish Girl. He didn't
have much cash. but he had way
with horses, and he thought he could
make her do bit of running.
Pays Quick Dividends.
Rougish Girl really is rogue,
end the man who pinned the tag on
ner knew what he was doing. No
body. not even the shrewd Anthony
Pelleteri, who owned her, could tell
when she would or wouldn't run.
Perhaps, annoyed by her sulky
moods, Pelleteri dropped her into a
claiming race and the sandy-haired
young trainer, Jules Wessler, by
name, dug up a buyer, Benjamin
Deutch, the meat market man. They
paid $500 for her.
They weren't long in winning out,
FOR Roguish Girl galloped off with
$4,000 handicap purse not long
afterward. Besides, she won several
smaller purses, and all in all Deutch
was we'll pleased with his buy
For the most part training horses
IS mans game, and rightly so.
Sometimes, though. women have the
temerity-and luck-to crash it sue
cassfully.
There's Mary Hirsch, the slight,
Gark-haired daughter of Max Hirsch
and sister of Buddy Hirsch. She
stepped right out of finishing
.,hool onto the turf and has made
.ler own way ever since.
Mary goes to her dad for advice
Ahen she needs it, but she has her
own training methods and sticks to
them. Max Hirsch has his. too, and
sometimes their horses meet. The
day hasn't arrived when Mary. Max
and Buddy all have had entries in
6. race. but it might at any time.
Perhaps the best thoroughbred
she has had to train is No Sir, but
ne has slipped from the high place
he held in Florida racing some
months back.
Judy johnson Persistent.
Judy johnson is another young
lady who is trying her luck as a
traSer. Sometimes that luck ism t
any too good. Judy rarely wins a
race, but she always manages to
get to the next track to try again.
She frankly describes her outfit
,s5 "a poor woman's stable" and
boasts her optimism can't be cured.
She has plenty of company.
Judy keeps her chin up during the
lean times by never crossing bridges
till she gets to them That helps.
The Maryland skies seemed mighty
gray this fall to Judy until Persian
prince led a band of steeplechasers
under the wire at Laurel. Then she
had money in the bank again.
There was a time" she recalled
one day, when I found myself at
Narragansett with only SIP and a
horse called Ladovitch. That was
several years ago. Ladovitch was a
son Of the great Blanford, but I'll
nave to admit he had seen better
days. 1 sure was discouraged"
Then Ladovitch hit his stride
without warning and won a race.
Judy quit worrying about the rent
and when the sheriff might come
around and lock up the stable be-
cause the feed bill hadn't been paid
on time
Il quit living on hot dogs, too"
she added. smiling.
Ladovitch's worries are over now
He's out on farm, where Judy
says he will stay as long as she can
foot the bills.
Jacobs Has Amazing Success.
All owner-trainers aren't on pow
erty row.
The amazing success of the one
time Brooklyn pigeon fancier,
Hirsch Jacobs, is criterion of what
scan be done with cheap claiming
horses. Six years in a row he has
topped all trainers in the number
of races won.
He has an uncanny way of sim
Cling out horses that will make
money for him. Back in 1896 when
he won 1T races and broke the
record of years before set by Char
lie Cowboy Irwin he claimed a
virtually lame old-timer called Ac-
ton.
Before the season was over his
new colorbearer, acquired at a cost
OF $1,000, had picked up 1000 in
purses for him and was running in
stake company.
Jacobs started out about 10 years