Evening star., 1940-05-02
Hangers Horse
Hailed Another
Bold Venture
Colt Hirsch Trains
Is Mystery as Was
His Winner
BY SID FEDER,
Associated Press Sports writer,

LOUISVILLE, ny, May Zine
hunch player in the Beat Bime-
lech" fraternity, bouncing around
all over the place trying to keep
warm and looking for something to
stop Mr.. Big" in Saturdays Ken
lucky Derby, put the finger right
smack on Max the Mystery Man
Hirsch today.
rs it possible" the fraternity
brothers wondered, that Max has
another Bold Venture to spring on
the folks in his Dit this year? Can
history repeat so that Max pops up
with another outsider from New
York to knock of an odds-on home
town boy, who's been making good
in big way?"
He did it against Brevity in '36
as nicely as you please, you remem-
ber, and the setup is similar this
year in more ways than the frosting
on your julep glass, although Sat-
urday's expected field of eight or
nine is considerable short of the
10 who answered to MY Old Ken
lucky Home" then. He did 1t on a
fast track that day, too, and the
weather man today said he reckoned
it would be fair for Derby day,
despite the overcoat-and- -earmuffs
touch of winter that hit town yes
terday and the clouds still hanging
around this morning.
Bins Last Quarter Disliked.
OF course, Col. E. R. Bradley's
sweet-stepping hope for a fifth
Derby win still is the peoples
cherce" in this Derby village, which
rapidly is bursting out its seams
with the crowds stampeding in for
the 66th running of the Blue Grass
classic. In every jammed hotel
lobby and on every street corner
from Fourth and Walnut out to
Churchill Downs. four out of five
were willing to bet you cash, marbles
or broken bottles that Bimmie is
the lad.
But the fifth one in every quin-
tet-and this cheering and chowder
society included some of the most
capable horse trainers in town
wasn't so sure. And, oddly enough.
it was because Bimelech won the
Derby trial Tuesday so easily that
some of the boys and girls were
willing to hem and haw a bit.
They're pooh-poohing for the
simple reason that he ran the last
quarter of that mile in the slow
time of 26ss seconds, compared with
a first quarter in 22H.
Dit Has Many Guessing.
They feel that tough extra quar-
ter in the Derby isn't going to be
just what the doctor ordered for
Bimmie and that the anticipated
10000 or so fans looking on Satur-
day are going to be mighty sur
prised, to say the least. The die
hards point this out despite the fact
that Bimmie was running on slow
track Tuesday and that the only
thing even closely resembling race
came in the first quarter, when the
Lexington lightning streak took 'em
on one by one and watched them
fall.
Which brings us to Max Hirsch
and Dit. Max came down four
years ago with Bold Venture, so
lightly regarded he wound up pay
ing $4320 in the mutuels, longest
price since old Mr.. Bones Extermi-
nator hit "bingo" at $6120 back in
1918. Brevity had won the Florida
Derby and a race corresponding to
the then non-existent Derby trial
here. He went to the post odds on
at 4 to S.
So what happened? Well, Bold
Venture led all the way down the
last half mile, while Brevity,
knocked to his knees at the start,
finished second.
Pictor Ready to Go.
Dit comes down as horse that's
still a mystery. Owned by Arnold
Hanger, he's been back East all
spring, winning two races at Jamai-
ca, including the Wood Memorial
last Saturday. But in both he had
things all his own way and, with no
competition, didn't answer any
questions.
Now" Hirsch said today, II won't
exactly say he's another Bold Ven
ture. But"
Buddy Haas, his regular jockey,
however, took him out for an easy
route-going mile-and-quarter work.
out yesterday in 2:13 on a mud track,
and afterward reported that from
his stride and action, he's better nSW
than when he won the Wood"
Another trainer who joined the
beat Bimelech" bunch was Lou
Schaefer, who's handling the mud
running man from Maryland, Pictor.
Lou would much prefer the slop, but
stuck his chin way out to here by
adding, Fast or slow, we're not
afraid"
These two-Dit and Pictor-fg-
ured to provide whatever fireworks
Bimmie's going to see popping