Evening star., 1960-02-28
EdgehiIICoIt
Moves Up in
DerbyScene
BY FRANCIS STANN
Star stan Writer

MIAMI, Fla, Feb. 27.-Bally
Ache, the colt that couldn't
cutie seem to get a break from
the photo-finish cameras last
year, didn't need them today.
BY the naked eye from a mile
away, Leonard D. Fruchtmans
bay son of Ballydam Celestial
Blue won the 3lst running Of
the Flamingo Stakes, first of
l960's 100000 added races for
three-year-olds.
He trimmed Windfield Farms
Victoria Park. his conqueror Of
a week ago in mile and one
sixteenth prep. by a spanking
three and three-quarter lengths.
The colt that never had won a
race at more than seven fur
longs-that had lost five $780,
900 races by the narTowest
margins a year ago-had it all
today as 36,243 fars and a ma
tional TV audience will attest.
The big croWd-it was the
third largest in Hialeahs his
tory-that turned out on a cool,
cloudy day. was in a free
betting mood, setting three rec
ordS. They poured out S454,4l3
on the Flamingo, a record for
a single race in Florida. Bet
ting on the nine-race program
was s2852,829. That smashed
another betting record Of
S2.639.7l6, set only last Satur-
day on Widener day.
In Derby Picture
Bally Ache made it look so
easy today that he must move
up considerably in the Ken
lucky Derby picture.
Bobby Ussery. the same rider
who was chided a week ago by
Trainer Jimmy Pitt for allow
ing Greek Page to run him
into the ground and set the
stage" for Victoria Park to
smash a track record. did a
faultleSS job this balmy after
noon. He took Bally Ache to
the front again. but this time
he rated the handsome brown
colt eXpertly.
/ AS against the devastating
quarter which killed off Bally
Ache last Saturday. Ussery kept
a rein on the new, if temporary,
king Of the three-year-olds.
The time for the mile and fur
long race was l:48, a second
slower than the track record
set by Bold Ruler in 1857.
A length and a quarter be-
hind Victoria Park came the
lightly-regarded Keenation, a
colt once sold by Calumet Farm
for $4,000 to Elkcam Stable.
Ironically, Keenation today
handily beat both of the Calu-
met prides, Hillsborough and
Pied Dor, who finished fifth
and ninth respectively, in the
12-horse field.
Got to Front Early
The order of finish for the
others was All Hands, fourth:
Our Hope, sixth: Bourbon
Prince, seventh; Moslem Chief,
eighth; Greek Page, tenth; New
Commander, eleventh and Oil
Wick, last-a position he held
from the first quarter on.
Ussery took Bally Ache to
the front almost as soon as the
field broke from the gate and
the colt never lost the lead. He
was ahead all the way, but just
to make sure, Ussery, his right
hand failing with the whip
down the long stretch, pushed
his mount. Instead of stopping.
as many soothSayers had pre-
dicted because of Bally Aches
breeding, the colt drove relent-
lessly.
Bally Ache at So
AS the horses took the track,
Bally Ache was listed as So,
with Victoria Park. owned by
E. P. Taylor of Toronto, Cam
ada, favored at 6-5. The odds
layers didn't do too well. Kee-
nation went off at 99-l. aC-
cording to the lighted odds
board. Bally Ache paid $3.50,
$3.50 and $3.50. Victoria Park
returned S3.10 and $500. Kee-
nation paid his few hackers
with a whopping $21 90 to show.
The value OF today's Flam-
lingo was S143.OOO and Bally
Aches share for his Toledo
owner was S9O.88O, He now has
earned S429.027.
He WAS the second leading
money winning 2-year-old Of
See FLAMINGO, Page G-7