Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-05
WIN, LOSE OR
DRAW ;, FRANCE, ,rApu
All He Does Is Win

LOUISVILLE May 5-Standing in the winners circle
at Churchill Downs Ben Jones asked for an up-to-
the-mnute appraisal Of Caumets newest Derby winner
Tim Tam
We've had better" Ben laconically replied land
we've had worse" Ben and his Jimmy have trained
total of eight Kentucky champions Ben accounting
for six TALL but Lawrin for CalumeD and Jimmy the
last two-Iron Liege and Tim Tam
The Jones boys know whereof they speak, and when
you consider the Patterson team sadded such Citation
and Whiraway old Ben probably isn't downratng Calu-
NETS new big. meal ticket Actually it is not easy to
properly rate Tim Tam.
The colt has won seven in a row. three of them
$l00O0O-added races. Tim Tam is the flower of con-
sSency But he never wins big" they say He just
wins. The last time Tim Tam opened up any daylight
was back on March 10 when he beat Gray Monarch by
two lengths at Gulfsream Park.
TOM FOOLS HANDSOME son, out of Two Lea has
total margin of only about five lengths for his last
races.
Hard to believe? Well Saturdays Derby by half a
length Lincoln Road Last Tuesdays Trial by a
neck Ebony Pearl Before that one win at Keene-
land by half length over Nadir Then another half
a-length win over Lincoln Road in the Florida Derby.
Before that one, there the Flamingo, where he
after finishing behind the disqualified Jewels Reward
To begin the streak there length quarter
victory his stablemate, Kentucky Pride back on
February Is at Hialeah
His illustrious predecessor at Calumet, Whraway,
won the Derby alone in 194 by eight whopping lengths
In lar better time, IL might be added, although WhryS
record Of 20l2s was over fast track and Tim Tam,
running in 205, performing on a strip which most
trainers preferred to call greasy
Some Of the horses including Jewels Reward OBJ
viously did not like the footing at all Even the Jones
boys disclosed after the face that they did not cotton
to the way Tim Tam was behaving on the backsretch
HE seemed to be in trouble" Jimmy said about
the ve-eighths pole He didn't to like the track
and was running as if in distress"
TOTrICUTTT EN1pTrED of Dor,,, ,,isitorc rohodu
seemed to have any concrete idea of what happened
silky Sullivan. His rider, Willie Shoemaker, had said
that Silky slipping and sliding all the way but Silky
had just about every kind of track-fast slow
muddy good and sloppy.
The second and third horses-longshots Lincoln Road
and Noureddin-didnt to have much trouble with
the track.
Like Noureddin Lincoln Road was not nominated for
the Preakness and Belmont but the Baltimore May
II may be the that Lincoln Road will find best to his
liking with its shorter distance and tight turns.
This Derby the second $1000O0-added in a
row Lincoln Road, who went off at $4690 to ST. has lost
to Tim Tam In fact, it duplicate of the Florida
Derby in which Tim Tam coared Lincoln Road 75-tol
overlay inside the sixteenth pole and by the same
margin half length horse can eat we'll by placing in
races of this kind but it isn't like the big prize.
REGGIE CORNELL, THE plump trainer of Silky was
hiding from nobody after the California Comet fizzed
so completely Reggie drove downtown after putting UP
his colt and faced questioners one of whom broadly
suggested that because of all the Hollywood hoopa
5O-to-1 shot (silky) backed down to to l.
Hes better colt than he showed" Reggie defended
"He showed that in the Stepping Stone a week SC
before the Derby He farther back that prep than
he in the big race, but he real good fourth
Don't forget that only -furlong race too"
He still hadn't met the quality of horses in Cali
forna that he meeting here" Cornell reminded
Il said he did But he's better than he showed
I'm shipping him to Pimico for the PreakneSs matter
what people think"
Weren't there any at all for Silky" mar
asked
He spread shoe, that's all" Reggie said 1T didn't
affect his running bit only thing to say about
Sikys race He didn't like the track"
II understand" murmured Society Kid Hogan
when was fighting didn't like the ring"