Evening star., 1962-03-25
Late Surge
Gets Victory
InCompbell
BY JOSEPH B. KELLY
Star Racing Editor

Star Racing Editor
Charging along the inside
rail like a wild horse. George
Widener's Yorktown shot past
Globemaster near the finish to
win the $115,900 John B.
Campbell Handicap by a
length and a quarter at Bowie
yesterday.
Globemaster, a 8-5 favorite,
rallying strongly between
horses from off the pace, ap-
peared headed for victory at
the sixteenth pole when he
surged by the fading Hitting
Away. But then Widener's
famed blue silks, worn by vet
eran Jockey Jim Nichols.
flashed in the sunshine and
Yorktown flew under the wire
to the richest and most i'm
portant triumph Of his injury
riddled career.
The pulsating finish that
saw the first seven horses in
the field of dozen separated
by fourth lengths, brought the
20,628 in Bowie's largest crowd
of the season to its feet.
Calumet Farm, with its star,
Yorky Sidelined, got third
money by relying on its second
stringer, Beau Prince. He was
three quarters of a length be-
hind Leonard P. Sasso's dis
appointed handicap star. Then
it was Peter Fuller's Hillsbor-
ough a neck to the rear Of
Beau Prince and a nose to the
good of Hitting Away.
Won in New Orleans
Yorktown, an aptly named
five-year-old son of Battle
field, who was bred by Widener,
was the third choice in the
wagering, mainly because OF
his victory over Hillsborough
and Garry Back in the New
Orleans Handicap three weeks
ago in New orleans. His back
ers collected $3.50, $500 and
m aar0ce tho hNorl
Globemaster, expertly ridden
by Johnny Rotz, his regular
jockey, returned $3.50 and
= $2.40 and Beau Prince, $500
to show.
Lured by delightful spring
weather, the crowd which in
cluded Vice President johnson
and his wife, had plenty to
cheer about through the mile
and a sixteenth classic.
Yorktown, carrying 116
pounds, four less than top
weighter Globemaster. was last
at the clubhouse turn where
Jockey Nichols ran into some
+ temporary trouble. But he
: found racing room on the in
= side rail, and although far out
n of it for the first half mile.
6 never surrendered the shortest
route home.
q GlObemaster in Contention
It Early in the race Jockey Rotz
q found himself outrun by first
n April Skies and then Hitting
q Away but he kept Globemaster
d in the thick of contention,
!; never worse than third or
Il fourth.
Hitting Away, carrying Og-
: den Phipps' silks and trained
Il by Sunny Jim F'itzsimmons,
n still had the lead at the eighth
: pole but the going was rough
IS and he suddenly faded to fifth.
s GlobemaSter, RUNNING gamely,
e appeared as though he might
h draw away for his first stakes
o triumph of the season. But
Yorktown was still seventh at
h the eighth pole and not too
!: far away, cut loose with his
" dnUQ tatino ral1J
K The teletimer caught York
town in 1:434s for the mile and
: sixteenth over a fast racing
: strip.
! For Trainer Sylvester Veitch,
- Yorktown's effort and the $73,-
1856 check he picked up was ex-
tremely gratifying. Plagued
with injuries as a young colt,
Yorktown never started as a
= 2-year-old and at three won
u only $21,275.
p Last year, he never won a
# race in three starts and was
10 limited to a meager 1928 in
70 purses. Before the Campbell,
10 with a three-for-three mark,
n he had earned $50,250 this year.
Trouble at Turn
Jockey Nichols, who has
is helped to keep Yorktown un-
:, defeated this year, said after
diSmounting:
I'VE had some trouble at the
first turn but after that luck
was with us, to find room in
side all the way"
Disappointed Johnny Rotz,
who also lost the Preakness last
spring with Globemaster in the
% final strides when Garry Back
> beat him, offered no excuse for
the four-year-old colt.
He didn't have his usual
\ early speed. I was not instruct
ed to lay off the pace. He ran
real game in the stretch. I
n guess one day We will win one
q of these big ones"
Campbell Day was quite a
success for the Bowie manage
g, ment as betting scared to ST.
818.048 on the nine races, the
best one-day handle of the
meeting, which closes Thurs
dau The SOT2 7Od NO nnrnd On,