Evening star., 1961-04-02

GlOIl 5 lGdUllS O-ySdI -O4u.
On a track that was Slopp
heavy rains, the pride and JOY
of Florida also earned $75, 100
to run his earnings to $475, ,118,
a fair return for an original
investment of $500. The plain
looking colt with the long tail,
foaled in the Ocala fla re-
gion, ran the mile and an
eighth in 1:48.4, two full Sec
ondS slower than the Gulf
stream Park track record and
the races mark set by Gen.
Duke in 1857.
For Fred w. Hooper's Gro
zier, the hard luck colt of the
year, it was his fifth straight
race lost by the narroweSt OF
margins. Crozier, ducking out
from the rail 40 yards from the
finish, may have lost a length
by this unfortunate move but
he saved the place spot by 314
lengths over Calumet Farm IS
Beau Prince.
Sellers Aboard Again
Carry Back, owned by Jack
Price and ridden as usual by
23-year-old Johnny Sellers, be-
came the sixth favorite to win
in 10 runnings of the Gulf
stream Classic and the second
FIorida-bred to prevail. He
followed the trail blazed in 1856
by Needles, who went on to
win the Kentucky Derby.
Behind the three leaders
came Garwol, Ronnies Ace,
Intensive, Oak Dandy and
Game. None ever was con-
sidered a serious threat,
although Intensive and Oak
Dandy led the field for half
mile in the manner expected
of these speedballs.
A crowd of 26,655, betting a
record $322,737 on the race,
sent Garry Back off at 16 to
10 and he paid $500. 50 and
$3.50. Crozier returned $3.50
: and $3.50 and Beau Prince
$3.50 to show.
: CrOzier Goes For Pace
> Of the big three horses, each
carrying 122 pounds, only
: Crozier, with Bill HartacE
> aboard, went after the fast
=. breaking Intensive and Oak
|, Dandy. Hartack, riding for
: Hooper for the first time since
= the Coral Gables sportsman
, vowed never to employ the
. jockey more than two years
!, ago, was third until the three
quarter mark and then sent
D the son of My Babu-MisS
! Olympia to the front.
! Sellers on Garry Back and
= Eddie Arcaro on Beau Prince
took back their horses and
made their moves at the same
time as Hartack. With Inten-
! sive and Oak Dandy coming
/ back to them. Crozier took a
e two-length lead over Beau
t Prince at the top of the stretch,
? with Carry Back a head behind
the Calumet Farm candidate
That's how they splaSheC
I down the water-Soaked strip ir
front of the grandStand d
} Crozier, on, the rail, suddenly
ducked out as he tired anC
appeared to brush Garry Back
although he did not bother the
winner. Beau Prince also wa;
> unbothered because, trying tt
run a mile and an eighth fol
the first time, he proved to bt
a little short.
GarwOl Has Gate Trouble
GarWol, wearing the color!
of Louis Wolfson's Harbor View
= Farm, finished four length!
behind Beau Prince after 6
luckleSS break out of the gate
e HE went up in the air at thu
t start and lost all his chance,
Jockey Ismael Valenzuela saiC
n after the race.
1t was not precisely fruit
d less day for any of the leader
. because Crozier earned $20,00l
for place, Beau Prince $10,00I
. and GarWol $1,000 and Ron
5 nies Ace, the California hope
$4,000 for fifth.
Crozier, technically a 3-year
old but actually the younges
O horse in the race because hi
actual birthday doesn't fall un
til May 6, the day of the Ken,
Q lucky Derby, seems to be snake
> bitten. Before losing by a heaC
! today he was second by a nos,
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