Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-06-18
WIN, LOSE OR
GNAV By FRANCIS STANN
Of Gallant Man, Et Cetero
By FRANCIS sTANN

WELL NOW, THERE'S pretty good rhubarb develop
ing in racing circles especially since Gallant Man off
hid from the field the Belmont Stakes thereby moving
up as the potential 3yearod champion. The question:
Is the colt Irish English?
Time Magazine recently proclaimed him Englshbr
Whereupon the editor Of Dublin breeding publication
in to protest No, Time repeated Gallant English
he foaled in 1854 at the Homesta Stud
Sussex England Time said his dam, the bred Madeh
had been taken to England the year before mating
with Mgo winner of the 1948 Prix LArc de Triomphe
According to the Time the Mahmoud
to Ireland after the mating then returned to Sussex drop
her foal.
The Morning Telegraph, usually more accurate than
Time on racing matters tells it differently 1t cites Ralph
Lowe the colts present Mai Hail. stud manager
for the Aga Khan at the Sheshoon Stud in Ieands County
Kildare saying Gallant Man conceived foaed
the Aga Khan's place
Virtually all qualified racing writer's designate Gallant
Man as Irish-bred How he be anything else" they
demand when he conceived foaled reland?"
all the fault Jockey Club they declare for
1t was the Jockey Club that had listed him English
Jockey Club the evidence to be that CAL
liant Man is very much the Irish side so than
Moor OF few years back who conceived in England
and foaed in Erin.
GALLANT MAN WAS ONLY the fourth foreign bred
horse to win the Belmont Stakes and the since
Johren won in 1913 Before Johren there in
1874 and Houress in 1917 and England claim credit
for all three.
Perhaps not since Swaps and his Mormon owner Rex
Ellsworth, and the unorthodox Mormon trainer Msh
ney has there been such coorfu stable Gallant Mans
Both Owner Lowe and Willie Shoemaker the rider
natives Lowe made his pile in oil and cotton then went
into racing.
He bought nine from the Aga Khan in 1855 for
something like $220OOO was the understood Gallant
Man, whom Lowe named for a horse he saw in a movie
Gallant Man still is small and because he shell
feet he cannot be campagned too hard certainly
week like Discovery Stymie For that Trainer
Johnny Nerud must pick his spots but thing certain
by now When the colt is sent out, he distance,
which apparently is more than Bold Ruler do.
He lU uOuld houo The aku narAu hut
for Shoemaker's misiudgng the finish line, and had he
gone in the Preakness he might have that too thereby
becoming the first Triple Crown winner since Citation
in l948.
TRAINER NERUD, A wIRY 44-year-old native OF Mon
tana be the most coorfu of all the humans connected
with the stable Nerud who OF Viennese extraction has
held about every job there with
He licensed to ride at "gyp" meetings in his
served agent and trainer for the stable Herbert
Woo and at time agent for Jockey Ted Atkinson
1t Nerud who persuaded Atkinson to leave New
England and come to New York. big in Teds
because he since has become of the top riders in the
Nation.
Not Nerud but Gerald Bliss was Gallant Mans original
trainer The colt three times for Bliss winning his third
race at almost so to in the Of 1855 at Holly
wood Park Bliss became sick and the Lowe horses
shipped east from California for Nerud to train.
Oddly, Lowe had met Nerud at the time he hired
him by telephone, but some Texas friends had put in
good word for Johnny and Lowe has regretted taking
their advice Right of the bat almost Gallant Man
lOl paying uedIly oV W LLldI
last October the bettors have wsed up aplenty
BECAUSE HE WAS BORN in Indian country 1t was
assumed Tor many years that Nerd was Indian and Johnny
for long time encouraged the report Occasionally al
parties he would throw blanket himself and 90
dance complete with whoops
Actually" Bob Norwood Of the Morning Telegraph
gagged "Johnnys Indian dance greatly different
from his normal style Of ballroom dancing"
Obviously there is lot class to the horse trainer
Jockey and last but not least the For when Shoe
ma al OH IL
losing the Derby to Caumets Iron Lege cost Owner LOVE-
e82,950 and the honor OF having Derby winner.
Yet the Texan bleated, censured little Willie
Instead he announced that Shoemaker could ride Gaan
Man any time he wished which the jockey did with
the time in the Peter Pan Handicap and Of
In the Belmont last Saturday.
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