Evening star., 1960-05-22
Ba||y Ache Turns Tables in Preakness;
Athletics Dump Senators Into Cellar So
VenetiunWuy
Outruns Only
One Horse
By CHARLES M. EGAN
Sports Editor Of The Star

Sports Editor Of The Star
BALTIMORE. May 81. -
Bally Ache won the $I75,100
Preakness Stakes today in q
fashion that indicated the bad
Unnamed colt knew all along
that he was worth more than
a million dollars. He led all the
way from start to flnish-and
that isn't the easiest way to get
the job done.
Pulling away decisively down
the heightened Pimlico home
stretch, Bally Ache won the
84th running of this classic
mile-and-three-sixtee race
by four lengths from Victoria
Park, the Canadian champion.
The surprising Celtic Ash was
only another length and three
quarters back in third place.
Venetian Way, the Kentucky
Derby winner, was made the
lilo favorite by the sweltering
crowd of 30.659, but finished a
badly beaten fifth, ahead of
only one horse in the field Of
six. Isaac Blumberg's Derby
victor didn't even resemble a
Triple Grown champion today
as he folded UP ANONYMOUSLY
. after pressing Bally Ache for
nearly a mile.
Dividend for New Owners
BY winning his race for the
newly-formed Turfland Stable.
the Kentucky syndicate that
bought him a week ago for
$1,250,000, Bally Ache earned
exactly $l21 ,000-nearly 10 per
cent of the whopping sum paid
for him by a group headed by
Joseph L. Arnold, Lexington at.
torney. The colors he wore to-
day-white, green with a gold
saSh-had been approved by
The Jockey Club only a few
days ago.
1t was the 18th time in the
last % years that the second
place finisher in the Kentucky
Derby was resounding victor
in the Preakness. Others who
accomplished the feat included
Challedon, Alsab, Native Dane
er, Nashua and Capot.
AS in all his previous races
as a 3-year- -old, Bally Ache was
ridden by Bobby Ussery, who
certainly earned vindication for
his defeat at Churchill Downs.
Surprisingly well-backed de-
spite his 312-length walloping
by Venetian Way in the mile
land-a-quarter Derby, Bally
Ache went of as the 1910 Sec
ond choice and paid $40 and
$2.80. The fast-closing Victoria
Park. a 6-1 shot ridden by
Tony DeSpirito, returned $3.50
to place. There was no show
betting because of the small
field and the possibility of an
embarrassing minus pool.
Time Was Ordinary
Although Bally Aches victory
was sensational in nearly every
respect, his time certainly
wasn't. The front-running son
: of Ballydam covered the mile
and three -sixteenths in 1:573s,
not bad for a dull track that
wasn't helped much by an
early morning drizzle that held
the crowd down. But the time
; was still three full seconds
. slower than the mark Nashua
set when he won the Freak
ness in 1855.
Nashua is the only horse that
ever brought a bigger price
than that paid to Leonard
Fruchtman for Bally Ache.
Nashua brought $1,000 more in
1855 after the tragic death Of
his owner, William Woodward.
jr.
Today's victory Increased
Bally Aches earnings in a year
and a half to $664,527. That
, puts him far ahead of the
> amount earned by Round Table.
the winningest horse of them
all, at this stage of his career.
It's hard to tell who was
happiest about the way Bally
: Ache moved away to victory
in the stretch-Jockey Ussery.
trainer Jimmy Pitt, Arnold or
! Fruchtman. But there isn't
much doubt as to the unhap-
Ipiest-and the most surprised
person in the Pimlico neigh.
borhood. p
1t has to be Bill Hartack, the
cocky little Jockey who divides
his time between riding stakes
winners and feuding with. the
press-and other folks. Hartack
; had won his second Derby with
Venetian Way and he was
more than confident that the
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