Evening star., 1960-04-04
WIN, LOSE OR
INAV By FRANCIS sTANN
It's a Lonq Road Ahead

HALLANDALE Fla, April 4-There is long road
ahead for Bay Ache and the other S-yearold but in
the wake OF the Florida Derby you'd have to like Baly
Aches chances of winning in the coming Kentucky Mary
land and New York racing classics. Perhaps he isn't
agreat colt but Bay Ache proved last Saturday at Gulf
stream Park that he's game one.
IhS III named son of Ballydam Celestial Blue seemed
to be licked about eighth of mile from the finish
Venetian Way ridden by Bill Hartack who was driving for
his fourth straight Florida Derby, headed him briefly at
that point -
He's speed-bred" an authority in the press box re-
marked, referring to Baly Ache and he's had it, AS he
spoke Baly Ache seemed to hang but then he reached
back for some unsuspected stamina and came on again.
His timeE479S for the mile and flrlonV-wasnt sensa
tlonal but 1t was fast enough.
He whipped seven rivals for Triple Crown honors and
with Warfare seemingly out of picture it looks as if only
Tompion stands in the way of Bally Ache.
THIS COLT MUST GO down as one of the greatest
bargains in history He $500 at the yearng sales
and ne has earned for his owner D. Fruchtman
OF Toledo, Ohio, something in excess of $5OOOOO
Bally Aches luck may be changing too Last year as
zyear-old he lost five 100000 added races to the
cameras At GufStream last Saturday he won in picture
nnlSn beating Venetian Way. His name is deplored but
omer j. 'Jmmy Pitts denies that he tagged the bay colt
was on tne telephone one evening with Mr.. Frucht-
man-Weo just bought the yearlng-and the boss mem
toned that he wanted to horse after daughter
of one of his good friends
Jack Gamer my assistant was sitting in the room
and overheard that part of the conversation What bo1lv
ache that will be-" he said
Il heard that remark Mr. Fruchtman said Put that
name on the list for The Jockey Club only spell it Bally
Acne because his sire Ballydam
so did,, Pitt reported, land believe me II was tho
last name We had four others ahead of 'Balv Ache ,
But that was the name that approved and he's stuck
with it. ~
IN STAKES RACES last year Bally Ache had bit
OF trouble beating Vital Force but mostly Warfare the
2year-old champion went wrong He dropped three
srasht 70 War1are-the Cowdn, Champagne and Garden
otate-aS this colt always seemed to outphoto him.
People kept telling me that Baly Aches daddy was
ored Tor speed and his dam" Pitt saws '"They
said he couldn't go distance and wasn't Derby-type
colt Every time he got licked in photo they'd shake
their heads.
well, we put full blinkers on him this year. lust in
case his trouble was loafing and letting horses slip
past him. That was one of two big changes we made"
And the other big changer"
We stopped trying to rate him." Pitt said We've
started to let him run his own race"
BECAUSE HIS DADDY Ballydam and his dam Celestial
Blue were tabled speed horses it widely assumed
that after few furlongs Bally would give up He
never olo He ran and won at furlongs then at and
nnally, at mile and sixteenth 2-year-od.
Distance doesn't seem to bother him too much The
Kentucky Derby will be little longer but even Bally
Aches severest critics aren't faulting him now on
stamina Not after what he showed in the final yards at
GutStream He was moving again and going faster than
Veneuan way and Victoria Park and even Eagle Admiral
who closed a deal of ground to finish fourth
I'm sort of convinced this is come and -get-me
colt Pitts says I'VE let him barrel out of the gate on
top IN the Florida Derby and it left up others
to catch up. Venetian Way did, but he couldn't 60 all
the way"
Only two Florida Derby winners ever have won the
kentucky Derby those being Needles and Tim Tam but
lot of knowedgeable people think that Baly Ache will
Join the exclusive club There been lesser winners
OF the Florida Derby