Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-06-17
Nelson Breaks
DeIaWarePark
Riding Record
Veteran Jockey Hos
5 Straight Winners
Despite Stiff Neck

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When Jockey Eldon Nelson
came TO work at Delaware
Park yesterday, he was suf-
fering from q stiff neck, the
result Of q gate accident last
Saturday when he was thrown |
as Ich Bin reared before the
start Of the first division Of |
the Christiana Stakes.
But a few hours later, the
3l-year-old rider had forgot
ten completely about his. neck
as he received congratulations
in the jockeys quarters for the
biggest day Of his career.
Nelson drove home five
straight winners-excluding the
steeplechase interruption in the
third race-to establish an ALL
time Delaware Park record.
Bill Hartack had i've winners
here in 1855. but required
seven horses to turn the trick.
Nelson had six mounts.
Unplaced In First
Out of the money with Brown |
Betty in the first race. Nelson .
proceeded to sweep the next 4
five fiat events. He won the
second race with Procella,
$3.50 favorite. to round out the ,
$l7l.80 daily double: sat out (
the jumping race and then /
captured the fourth with Collie, /
$500: the fifth with Necro- |
S10.40: the sixth with I
Staysail, $3.50. and the seventh
with 1t. Jaygee, 1920.
He did not ride in the eighth /
race. His five winners lifted |
him back into the lead for sad
die honors over Steve Brooks,
with the score standing, 1913, |
as competition resumed today.
Last year. only two American
jockeys were able to record FIVE
winners with six mounts. Mel
son had never ridden five win
ners on one program before. but
he did have four at 'Pimlico at
the 1854 spring meeting.
Has 400-Acre Ranch
Nelson, who started riding
race horses in 1913, was born
in Oklahoma but makes his
home on a 400-acre ranch at
Cedarville, Kans., where he
raises cattle.
Nelson's feat overshadowed
the feat of 24-year-old Anthony
Presti. an apprentice from Phil
adelphia who won his first race
on his fourth mount in yester-
days opener. He piloted Cosmic
Bess. a $4,000 longshot. who
nosed out a 40-l chance, Crown
Head. Both winners in yester-
days double were from Roy E.
Faircloth's stable.
Delaware Parks newest
stakes race, the $20.O00-added
State Handicap, to
be run Saturday, is expected
to draw eight or nine starters
with Faircloth's Sharpsburg
the early favorite in the mile
and-a-sixteenth event.
Kingmaker Top Weight
Racing Secretary Gil Haus
gave top weight Of 126 pounds
to Kingmaker and Just two
pounds less to Sharpsburg. |
Kingmaker will probably pass
up the Diamond State. how
ever.
Christiana Stables Ricci |
Tavi, next in line with 1913, will |
not start. Henry Clark. who
C on ditions the Christiana
horses. said Ricci Tavi is
training nicely but is not up
to such a tough race for his
first start this year.
Brookmeade Stables Oil
garchy, the Widener winnAr
this year, received l21 and is
considered a possible starter, |
together with Cain Hoy Sta
ble's One-Eyed King, III.
other probables are Ben
Lomond. l18; Jumario, ia;
Paper Tiger, 1l3; Ambehaving.
Ill; Star Rover, ITO. and
Bakht, ITO.
Mrs. Ada L. Rice's Fucker Up
and Beautillion. both high
ranking candidates for the rich |
filly and mare races which .
climax this meeting, have ar
rived from Chicago to be
prepped for the big events.
Last year Fucker Up lost a
tough half-length decision to
Calumet Farms Princess Turia |
in the $164.000 Delaware Han
dicap. Despite her loss in the /
Delaware. she was named the 1
best handicap filly in most polls |
last season.
Both Fucker Up and Beau
tillion are trained by Jim Con-
way. !