Evening star., 1941-06-08
Whir|awaySets
Pace Last Mile
In Belmont Win
Early Going So Slow,
He Leaves Field to
Get Triple Grown
BY SID FEEDER.
SSociated Press Sports Writer.


NEW YORK, June Having run
around EN- in the Derby and
through EN- in the Preakness,
Whirlaway tried a new way in the
Belmont Stakes today-and won
just as easily
To the astonishment of every
one of the 30,801 fans who crowded
Belmont Park, the chestnut can
non ball from the bluegrass COM
pleted his triple crown" conquest
by running from the front end of
the field for a full mile of tht
mile and-a-half classic, and still
bounced home three lengths to the
good without even "mussing his
hair"
Whirly always had let the other
fellows cut out the pace, coming
from far back in both the Derby
and the PreakneSS.
But in finishing off the triple
crown he did it from the head end
and still the other three in the field
never gave him, Owner Warren
Wright, Trainer Ben Jones or
Jockey Eddie Arcaro anything to
worry about.
Slow Pace Irked ArearO.
In fact, Arcaro, who was called
in first to ride the little lightning
streak in the Derby, explained after
ward that he just didn't like the
way things were going the first half
mile. Robert Kleberg's Itabo, I'M
defeated in his 2-year, three-race
career up to now, was cutting out
a mighty slow pace.
so I turned to the other Jockeys
when we were punched up there as
we came out of the first turn
Arcaro explained, and I said to
them, the h--ll with this, fellas,
I'm leaving"
So he and Blenheims boy left,
and that's all there was to it. Rob-
ert Morris, from the stable of j.
Fred Byers of Pittsburgh, made one
run at Whirlaway, halfway through
the stretch turn, but all it did was
give him second place.
Sonny Whitneys rank outsider
Yankee Chance, was third, eight
lengths back of the winner, and
Itabo, the mystery horse" of this
race, was distant fourth. The only
mystery about him was why ne
started.
The time bore out Arcaros rea-
son for starting off with Whirlv SO
early. The little fellow with the big
tail was clocked for the II furlongs
in 2:3l, the slowest for this stake
since Hurry OFF took 2:3235 to
make one turn of Belmont's spacious
strip in 1888.
Thus the bum" of last winter
completed his comeback to mark
his name in the books as the fifth
horse in all racing history to win
the triple crown. War Admiral was
the last to do it, in 1887. Before
him the son-father combination of
Omaha and Gallant Fox turned the
trick in '35 and 80, and way back,
the first to do it, was Sir Barton.
The victory was worth S39,77O to
Owner Wright, who had a better
than fair payday out of Belmont S
getaway program. His Some Chance
a son of Chance Play, came from
behind to take the National Stallion
Stakes and pick up s12,14O. making
it S5l $40 profit for the Kentucky
horSeman, who was not on hand to
see his home-breds win either race
Boosts Earnings to S236,111.
WhirlaWay boosted his earnings
for the year to S158.836 and for
his two-year career to s236.111.
His supporters only had the satis-
faction Of having their handicap
ping turn out right, for Whirlaway
was backed down to to in the
win betting and paid off the abso-
lutte minimum of S210 to place
There was no show betting on the
smallest field to go to the post in
the Belmont since Twenty Grand
had to beat two others in 1881.
From here Whirly may take a
crack at the Dwyer or the Shelvin
Stakes at Aqueduct. After that he'll
have a go at the American Derby
at Washington Park and the Ar
lington Classic.