Sea O Erin Wins Hialeah Feature by 3 Lengths on Slow Track
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THE SUNDAY STAR, Washington, D. C. KVXPAX JAIttIART B*. IBM ****B-5 Sea O Erin Wins Hialeah Feature by 3 Lengths on Slow Track Veteran 'Exercise Boy' Honored 16,744 Fans Watch 200 Horses Stabled Sooners Will Open t Apprentice, Only 16, iljj 11l At Charles Town lor Marshall LillyTells How Allergy to Horses Tar Heel Grid Slate •y the Associated Prass Made HimQuit After 50 Years Around Them CHAPEL HILL. N- C.. Jan. 29. Ride Winners Opening Week University Three Next By John Chandler sense of pace quickly earned —Hie of North Caro- §y Hw A.sociafod frmtt Sp«cio< Dispatch to The Star him fame as the “human stop- lina Tar Heels, rebuilding under Associated Pres* Sport* Writer George Barclay, will open MIAMI, Fla., Jan. 29.—Sea O CHARLES TOWN, W. Va., watch.” He could work a horse Coach - their 1955 football schedule with Erin, mud-running Son of Shan- Town RED BANK. N. J.. Jan. 29 within a fifth of a second of Jan. 29.—The Charles Just 40 years ago at Brookdale the time desired by a trainer. Oklahoma here Sept. 24. Athletic n, Royal non won the featured race track is getting ready for Marshall Good Jockey. Director Chuck Erickson an- Farm near Red Bank. Wasn’t today. Palm Handicap today before a an unprecedented early opening Coulter Lilly was helping pre- Lilly attempted to become a nounced In addition to Oklahoma, home top-coated crowd of 16,744 at of the '‘spring" meeting here, ; pare a 3-year-old filly for the jockey, but soon quit. Kentucky Derby —a “we games will include Notre Dame, Hialeah Park. already 1 race “If you can make horses run with 200 horses on the good a Maryland. Tennessee and Vir- Kenny riding. knew we could win.” fast, have hands and ginia. With Church grounds. Regret, only filly good amount It will be Oklahoma’s first pass- She was ever head and a fair to Sea O Erin took the lead 34-day Derby. you a good visit the area. The Tar Heels Charles Town starts a to win the of sense should be play ing the clubhouse and led six meeting February as part couple I those, will five Atlantic Coast Con- runners by 9 of A of hundred friends rider. think I had all ference games. other distance home ! the 94 days of racing it will have gathered the other night at a but,l still wasn't a good jockey." three lengths, running the mile Sept. 24. Oklahoma I this year Last year the horses testmonial dinner for Lilly, wno Lilly worked under such fa- Oct. 1. N C State at Raleigh: Oct 9. and an eighth in 1:53 over a slow days Rowe, Georgia at Athens; Oct. t.Y Marviand; | ran for 74 here. in more than 50 years worked mous trainers as James Oet. 22, at Wake Foretl: Oct. Ten- track. more great race horses than sr„ his son Jimmy, Tom Healey, nessee. Cambell’s Ram o’ The Charles Town increase with Nov. 6 South Carolina at Norfolk Bruce S. any reads (Oyster Bowl*-. Nov. 12. Notre ground was part of a slate of 266 racing man alive. This list Bill Brennan and John Gaver. Dame: War made up to take i racing They R. and Nov. 19 Virginia: Not 26- open. | days for the State formally ap- like a who’s who in trained for James Dec. 3 Duke at Durham second and L. Mantell’s Immense Man Behind Harry Payne Jaclyn | proved this week by the State j Little the Scenes Foxhall P. Keene. finished third. Stable’s Lilly, Whitney Sylves- Racing Commission. Last year who has lived at nearby Whitney. C. V. and the Deacon*' Football Dates Helfast was fourth. With the early entry Varsity West Virginia had 234 days I Lincroft most of his life, is Greentree Stable. In the ter Rich’s of and in H .tfwftfM/y <• ’3os, Gavqr the Include All ACC Teams and sixth, fn Other Charles Town meetings I little man behind the scenes j when became Helianthus fifth racing that the public MARSHALL LILLY. Greentree trainer, he retained RALEIGH, Spe- th|t order. after the first one closes March I general N. C., Jan. 29 July 1 through August i doesn” know about. But wealthy Lilly as his assistant. cial).—Wake Forest College to- Flight 19 will be ners, beginning Full Last. 13, August through thoroughbred owners, trainers, with Delhi in In 1919 at Saratoga when H. day naming 15 20 for running through announced the of Wheatley Stable’s Full Flight, show, 23 racing officials and newspaper- 1904 and Peter P. Whitneys Upset defeated Don Hipps as freshman football a horse and November Pan, Colin, Sweep, top weighted at 119 pounds and through [ men remember him as a veteran j Prince Eu- Man O’War in the Sanford coach and its 1955 varsity sched- December 17. gene, Johren, Twenty Grand, Lilly “lucky" second choice at 13-to-S, was last Meetings ! horseman and retired assistant Stakes, called it ule. field The entry at other West Vir- Shut Out and Capot, the latter although Upset was from his in the of seven. ginia tracks approved were: Wa- trainer for the famous Green- Hipps. a coach on the varsity was favorite at 5-to-2. tree Stable. ' in 1949. stable. staff last season, takes the terford Park—June 1. through [ Sysonby, over Sea O Erin, by ! He won’t age Then there were Great Murray Glea- owned Mr. and July 16 (idle July 5); and 25 tell his because Equipoise, Recalls Match. freshmen to allow Mrs. Allie Reuben’s Hasty House “people get me mixed up with John P. Grier, Ballot, The following year saw the son to devote full time to basket- days in October to be selected Celt, Maskette, Boojum, Farm, paid $10.60, $6 $4.40. my father,” a Which- great O’War coaching. and by the park; Wheeling Downs— who was noted Goose, match between Man ball Ram o’ War returned SB.BO and READY TO GO—Gene Hughes, 17 (left), representing South- coachman in Lexington. Ky., one. Mother Whisk Broom and John P. Grier, also exer- April 23 through May 30; July 11, Pennant. Pentecost, Bunting The schedule: $5.50. The show price on Im- Billy representing where Lilly was born. But the cised by Lilly, in the Dwyer 17. Caro* east Athletic House, and Williams, 17, the 23 through September 24, and Upset, being September VPI: 24. South mense was $4.80. guess is that he’s shoving 70 and the last named Stakes at Aqueduct. Una at Winston-Salem. Spartan Athletic Club, will meet in the novice featherweight through best only 1. 9. at race 56-degree November 3 November Lilly reluctantly in the horse that ever defeated October at West Virginia; The was run in class in the- first round of the Golden Gloves Tuesday at 26 (idle November 24). retired 1949 "Before the race, Rowe said Maryland: 15. North Carolina Stato weather and heavy clouds hung with chronic asthma. Specialists Man o’ War. John P. might win if he could (night) 22. North Carolina; 29. at Turner’s Areita. Williams, from Quantico, is a protege of Town, $200,000 Clemson over the palm-lined track. War At Charles a said he had become allergic to Recalls Regret. get there in front and make Novembei 5, William and Mary; 12, Tommy Thompson, a Golden Gloves winner as a light-*, improvement ¦ out at Virginia: 19 at Duke of Roses and Scimitar were late program is under horses and stable dust. ! “Regret trained for Derby Big Red catch him. Well,’’ and heavyweight three years ago. Thompson now is a professional. way, although the scratches becAuse of .the track’s it all will not be “Itold the doctor, ’Ican’t quit, at Brookdale, across the road Lilly smiled, "we all thought London Soccer team Wins condition. completed in time for the first my living’,”he -explained. lived,” Lilly be getting a meeting. biggest this is from where I re- Rowe must little Baskett, Brumfield The construc- “But the doctor said, ‘Well, you called. “I filly old. But he was right Sam Milllken. Tom on 3 Winners. is a paddock betting worked the and and with Temple Jay tion annex, be living if you keep it Derby a good smart jockey our Nick and Hartwell Don Brumfield, 16-year-old Pairings story won’t the was her first race that horse goals to give for Golden Gloves the second of which will be up’.” year—she came right off the might have won because he had booted Landon a apprentice jockey, took some of used for jockeys’ quarters. Glod 4-0 victory over St. James of from Royal TUESDAY NIGHT. THURSDAY NIGHT. Plaudit First Horse. ! farm and went to Louisville.” only 108 pounds to 126. the luster the Palm To help things more 10 yrars thought Hagerstown in an Interstate by riding triple make When he was old, the “We the Derby was ".John P. got out there, and a before the fea- NOVICE DIVISION. NOVICE DIVISION patrons during Lilly on Athletic Conference soccer gam* seventh young comfortable tor love of horses started in the bag before she went. finally, coming down the stretch, tured race. The Anthony j expected career boy Regret yesterday at Landon. Ky., 112-Pound Class 112-Pound Class Leamon the cold weather of his as an exercise hadn’t been beaten, win- Clarence Kummer had to go to rider from Nicholasville, (N.E. C.) February, large space Brown, ing on My ($3.10) Rosetta (CYO) vs.