Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-24
Notter, Burch,
Brooks Make
Hall Of Fame

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y,
July "a (AP). - Jockeys Steve
Brooks and Joe hotter, Trainer
Preston M. Burch. and four
horses including the great Ma
tive Dancer have been elected
to the Hall of Fame in the Ma
tional Museum of Racing at
Saratoga Springs.
John C. Clark, Hall of Fame
committee C h airman, an
nounced today the results of an
election by 40 selected racing
writer's, sports editors and coll
umnists from all sections Of the
country.
In addition to Alfred G. Van
derbilt's Native Dancer, the big
gray colt whose only defeat
came in the 1858 Kentucky
Derby, the new Hall Of Fame
members are Calumet FARMS
Armed. and two famous mares
the late William L. Brann's
Gallorette and Calumet's Twi-
light Tear.
Earned $7S5,24O
Burch and Notter, both re-
tired, and Brooks will attend a
ceremony at the Museum Au-
gust 2 when the new members
will be installed.
Native Dancer, who won 81 of
% races and was one Of the
most popular horses Of modern
times, finished second to Dark
Star in the Derby. He earned
$785, 240. The Vanderbilt star,
foaled in 1850, received 40 of
the 40 first place ballots, and
Armed was named on 20 bal
lots. Burch got 81 votes, and
although the jockeys had been
limited to one choice the COM
mittee decided to install both
Notter and Brooks when they
tied in the balloting.
Burch is the second Of three
generations prominent in rae
ing. His father already is in
the Hall Of Fame, and his son,
Elliott, succeeded him as the
Brookmeade Stable trainer. Be-
tween l920-1957, Burch trained
1926 winners of $6,205,335
Born in 1884 in Augusta, Ca,
he now lives in Virginia.
Rode Colin, Regret
Notter. born in New York
where he still lives, rode from
1904 through 1918. His best
mount was the unbeaten Colin,
1908 Belmont winner. He also
rode Regret, only filly to win
the Kentucky Derby, in 1915.
Notter was the leading money
winning jockey of 1908 with
$464,322 in purses, a record un-
surpassed until Earl Sande rode
winners of $500 1894 in 1923.
Brooks. who was born in a
covered wagon near McCook,
Nebr., in 1921, is still one of
the Nations leading riders. He
rode on small tracks in Idaho
and Montana when Is, and his
first regular race victory was
with Coventry at Shreveport,
La, November II, 1888.
A leading rider now on the
New Jersey circuit, Brooks got
his 4,OOOth victory at Gulf
stream Park last April 8. His
mounts. have earned more than
IS million. Brooks won the
l949 Kentucky Derby with
Ponder, and was aboard Cita-
tation when that Calumet star
won the 1851 Hollywood Gold
Cup and was retired as racing'sI
first millionaire horse with ST.
085, 760.
One Of Top Geldings
Armed, a 1941 foal, started
81 times, won Al races, had 20
seconds and 10 thirds, earning
$817,475. One of the top geld
ingS in history. he won many
of the Nations top races, in
Guiding the Pimlico Special,
Widener, Suburban, Washing
ton Park and Gulfstream Park
Handicaps.
Gallorette and Twilight Tear
not only beat the best in their
divisions, but met and defeated
the male runners. Twilight
Tear won the Arlington Classic
and Pimlico Special among
others and was 1914 horse of
the year. Gallorette beat the
opposite sex in the Metropoli-
tan, Brooklyn, Empire City.
Whitney, Carter and other
handicaps. Gallorette, bred by
Preston Burch, earned $445,535,
and Twilight Tear earned
$202,l65.