Evening star., 1958-04-24
WIN, LOSE OR
. eDKAW By FRANCIS sTANN
Sunny Jim and the Jewel

ONLY 10 MORE SHOPPING days before the Kentucky
Derby and it's about time to latch onto hopeful Sunny
Jim Fitzsmmons already has made up his mind The old
gaffer likes Jewels Reward who isn't OF his own.
He seldom bad race" Mr.. Fftz is quoted. I've
got to like horse like that"
The last time Jewels Reward and Tim Tam ran in the
same 1t the Jewel who finished top but the
Calumet colt got the money This in the Flamngo,
when Jewels Reward disqualified
Tim Tam wouldn't have beaten Jewels Reward even
II the truly rum Sunny Jim says. "In fact
think all that humping took out of him than out of
Tim Tam"
One thing about Jewels Reward, he's on the screen
as much as LaSse and Trigger. AS in the Famngo,
Mrs Elizabeth ~ Grahams colt the stewards the
projection after the recent Wood Memorial Jockey
Jimmy Combest had complained that Jewels Reward had
interfered with his mount, Noureddin.
THIS TIME THE STEWARDS didn't agree with the
plaintiff Nevertheless, it pointed up one qurk in the
Jewels character When another horse at him. ap
parenty he's got to fight too Jewels Reward doesn't
II he scratches up his tenders
In the Wood, the Jewel ridden by Eddie Arcaro,
who relieved Manuel Ycaza Mrs Grahams rider Of the
Big Horse After the Flamngo and couple of other
episodes involving inquiries the First Lady of Maine
Chance separated the fiery Panamanian and Jewels
Reward. Arcaro available.
But the Wood may have cleared Ycaza of charges that
ne plays too rough Now looks II the fault lies with
the colt as much or more, than the rider
There are horses who are bellcose. Nashua
on occasions Nashua who Ftzsimmons colt inciden
would come OH the rail and toward the
center Of the track II something coming at him.
Nashua like the Jewel not only willing to run with
rival but not adverse bodily contact the bargain
Equipoise was the type, too He disqualified
three times for Juggling over to the rail- Nice fellow
In the barn, though.
THEY LEFT UP JEWELS Rewards number after the
Wood so apparently Arcaro tried harder than Ycaza
keep his horse straight else The Master was cutter
in convincing the stewards it Noureddins fault
Ycaza wasn't cute at all in the Famingo When the Jewel
was playing bumps-a- a-daisy with Tim TAM Ycaza kept
whipping from the left side
Since the colt was going that-a-way anyhow It was
fender against fender all down the and as you
remember pretty embarrassing for Mrs Graham and
Leroy Collins Of Florida. Reasonably certain Jewels
Reward had won they were standing in the flower
bedecked nfeld awaiting the return Of the colt and rider
Ycaza joined them along with the horse but by now
the stewards were watching the motion pictures Minutes
passed like hours. Finally the Jewels number came down
and Tim Tams went up. There a long, sustained
chorus OF boos Tim Tam belongs to Calumet Like the
Yankees Calumet trumphs are old hat The customers
were roofing for somebody anybody else.
There's never been a disqualification in the Kentucky
Derby 1t is unlikely there will be this year what with
Arcaro riding but 1t would be silly to completely dismiss
the possibility.
AND WHAT ARE THE chances of an unknown horse
coming down under the wire and paying $4,000 or some
such price? The talkedabout horses are Tim Tam Silky
Sullivan and Jewels Reward Oh, yes, Nadr
But as Derby time grows near lot OF knowedgeable
racing ok 1t seems are thinking aloud that despite Tim
Tams record Jewels potential skys theatres there
really is no superior 3year-od Hence a searching look
elsewhere
Martins Rulah? On the eve Of the Florida Derby his
Jockey Willie Shoemaker, dismissed him as a big threat
TO Tim Tam.
He might sneak home II anything happened TO Tim
TAM, Willie said. Turned out quite few things had to
happen to lot of horses before Martins Ruah could
have sneaked home. Willie and Rulah finished up the
track.
Well, that was one rider and opinion. Now we
are getting different appraisal from another Jockey Conn
McCreary about the same horse
In the Experimental" Conn says, Martins Rullah
showed me real class He's Nasrulah so his breeding
is okay The stuff is there but he's moody II he's got
the same ideas Derby Day that he had during the
Experimental the rest of the field is going to have
hard time"