Evening star., 1949-08-21
Triumph in 1::34
Lowers Mark
Second
Calumet Stur Breaks
All Fractional Times
At Washington Park
By the Assoeiofad Press


CHICAGO, Aug. 20.-The Calu-
met Farms mighty Coaltown
streaked to a world record of 1874
for the mile today in winning the
$32,250 Whirlaway Stakes at
Washington Park.
This soaring performance shat
tered the former around turns rec
ord of 1:3425 established by the
great Equipoise at Arlington Park
II years ago. 1t was equalled by
Prevaricator last year at Golden
Gate Fields near San Francisco.
(The world record for a straight
course mile is 1882. set by Mopus
at Brighton, Eng, in 1890
Coaltown, in winning his 11th
victory in IL starts this year. led
his stablemate, Ponder, the Ken
lucky Derby winner, to the wire
by "a lengths. Star Reward, only
thoroughbred to defeat CoaltoWn
this season, finished third with
May Reward fourth and Colossal
fifth and last. The other two CAL
umet entries, Armed and Deluxe,
were scratched along with Dele
gate.
Coaltown. ridden by Jockey
Steve Brooks. was loaded down
with 130 pounds. compared to 1913
pounds which Equipoise carried
and 118 for Prevaricator in their
record runs.
Beats Fractional Time.
+ Not only did Coaltown clip two
fifths of a second off the record,
but the 4-year-old son of Bull
Lea Easy Lass, by Blenheim II,
bettered all of both Equipoise's
and Prevaricator's fractions for
the mile.
The bay colt went the first
quarter in :2225, the second in
As ana the third in 1:083s.
Equipoise's mark which stood for
II years was accomplished
stfugly: ;;a3A, AS, I09 1sPrevari-
Gators ffactlons were pm, 45@,
Beeapse. OF Of the sna1l tve horse
field mere was no place T show
betting. The Calumet ENTITY went
te41e postAat | to $ odds, pay
ink $2.60 to win.
The triumph, scored refore a
crowd OF 23,259. raised him to
18th place in the list OF leading
money winners, just above Eqm-
poise. His total earnings for two
years Of racing now is S341 ,975.
He did not race as a 2-year- old
due to a throat ailment. First
money in the Whirlaway was $21.-
400. Ponder picked up $1,000 for
second place, Star Reward got
$4,000 for third and $1,500 went to
May Reward.
Quickly Takes Over Lead.
With Jockey Brooks hustling
Coaltown out of the starting gate
the Calumet cannonball snatched
the lead after the first few strides
and never relinquished. May
Reward broke first. but was
quickly overhauled.
At the quarter Coaltown was a
length and a half ahead of May
Reward. Colossal was length
farther back and five lengths in
front of Star Reward, while
Ponder trailed by seven lengths.
AS they hit the half mile. Coal
town was only a length to the
good, but at 6 furlongs he was
three lengths ahead of May Re-
ward. Ponder still was fifth and
last.
In the stretch. Coaltown was
sailing along four lengths in front
of Star Reward. Ponder had
taken over fourth place and
Colossal was last. May Reward
was tiring, while Ponder made
his finishing drive on the rail to
beat out Star Reward by only
half a length.
Brooks Never Used Whip.
IT never hit him with the whip. :"
Brooks said, "but that didn't make
any difference. He probably was
running just as fast as he'd 60.
Just showing the whip to him
made him go a little faster, How
ever, still don't believe he's as
good as Citation"
Last year. Coaltown started 13
times, winning 8, being second
three times and. third twice.