Dark Star Wins Derby As Native Dancer's Stretch Drive Fails
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Farm and Garden J&laf fSpcffe Resorts and Travel *** WASHINGTON, C SIXTEEN PAGES. D. C„ MAY 3, 1953 Dark Star Wins Derby as Native Dancer's Stretch Drive Fails - -- - - ¦ ¦ ¦ * - Vernon's Two-Run Homer Gives Shea 5-4 Win Over Browns Big Gray Win, Lose or Draw Loses Blow in Eighth By FRANCIS STANN *’ Star Correspondent By Only a. Jl#l MONEY BROKErB Staff a Head hfl H Pulls Spec Out LOUISVILLE, May 2. THE HORSE—Dawn broke crisp and clear behind the backstretch of Churchill Downs. The aroma of coffee boiling As Winner Tires In 5-Hit pleasantly the barn Debut on the crude stoves mingled with smells. A couple of crap games began early among a few swipes but Runs Like Champion Elliott and Wertz Hit around the barns of the key horses there was the familiar Even Though Bpaten; Derby morn tension. m •> * Homers; Nats Finally As usual there were more people gath- Invigorator Third Win Two ered at Barn 16 than any other. Newspaper- Straight (Continued men, photographers, television and radio Jit : From Page A-l.) By Burton Hawkins people had turned out for a final pre-race didn’t seem to like the track Star Staff Correspondent glimpse of Native Dancer, talking softly and flj£||H either.” UigjSE w MI * 1 ST. LOUIS, May 2.—Mickey watching as Trainer Bill Winfrey, a 37-year- It was the first time Native Vernon’s first home run of the had ever old ex-Marine, carefully saddled the darling Dancer run on any season, a two-run blow atop the track outside of New York State. nghtfield roof in the eighth of the turf. Then he boosted Bernie Everson, in- He’ll have his chance to make ning, gave the Nats a 5-4 victory exercise boy, onto of the un- an the back amends in the Preakness and over the Browns and their first beaten gray colt and repeated, “Once around Belmont Stakes and, perhaps will two-game winning streak today. still be ranked a with such as Man Frank Shea, making his initial War, and few Not even veterans who picked something o’ Citation a other appearance of the year, held St, Gem or of the immortals. He’s got some to five hits, else—Correspondent or Royal Bay extra Louis including home . _ „ . Francis Stann. proving to do as a Straight Face or Dark Star—would deny result runs by Bob Elliott and Vic of today’s defeat, however. Wertz, but this would go down as “Native Dancer’s Derby,” win or lose. was a loser until Ver- Time of Winner 2:02. non unloaded his timely blast. Not since 1922, when Morvich had an identical record Dark Star’s time was 2:02 over The Nats accumulated 10 hits of 11 wins in 11, had a horse come up to the Derby with such a fast track, and only Whirlaway, off Don Larsen, towering rookie an all-conquering past. And Morvich in those pre-television Hill Gail, Middleground and right-hander, but were trailing days wasn’t so well known as Native Dancer, who is almost Twenty Grand have done better. until Jim Busby singled to left The new Derby champion, a public trust and who was to be watched today by 40 mil- whose . and stole second before Vernon owner, Harry F. Guggenheim, danckl crashed his homer. lion perons. former ambassador to Cuba, Gels First in So completely had Native Dancer captivated the public bought the at aSpB S^ARj^TMjMjfc' Nine Order. colt the Lexington Shea, that Winfrey’s task during Derby Week has been an exacting summer sales for $6,500, paid hampered by arm and shoulder ailments all spring, one. Answering the questions, weighing hundreds of $51.80, $13.60 and $7 in the re- same mutuels. Native Dancer tired the first nine Browns in requests for “different” poses, rarely taking his eyes off the returned DARK STAR WINS order $3.20 and $2.80, while Invigo- DERBY—Louisville—Dark Star, with Jockey Hank Moreno up, thunders under the wire to win the 79th and. in fact, disposed of cause him to lunge or rear and hurt of them in six colt lest the excitement rator, who went off at about running the Kentucky Derby, outlasting a fast bid by favored Native Dancer. —AP Wirephoto. 1-2-3 innings. But himself in the stall. 35 to 1, paid $9.40 to show. the chunky ex-Yankee yielded a three-run homer to Despite his youth, Winfrey has been training for a long Dark Star, the most lightly- Elliott. Na- tional League castoff, in tha time and is highly respected, although not all trainers hold campaigned horse in the race, is fourth inning. to his beliefs. Like believing in sunshine instead of vitamin Guggenheim’s first Derby win- Royal Vale, Outsider, Rider's in in ner. His Battle Morn was the Quick Switch Tactics Yanks Lose Ninth Elliott's smash tied the score pills allowing Native Dancer to graze only on the special at 3-3, and 5-to-2 favorite here two years the Nats having clustered grass grown from supplied by the University of Pennsyl- seed ago, chiefly because Arcaro was Pays Off in Dark Star Victory three runs in the same flame. vania and found on Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt’s private stable the rider. Dark Defeats Favorites On Fain's Three-Run The Browns grabbed a 4-3 mar- Star was the By th* Associated Press barber 70 yards from the finish, in Maryland. first Derby mount for little i gin in the seventh when Wertz area LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 2.—A moving up Moreno and the jA horse was on him slammed his fourth homer for also first - But Winfrey’s responsibility is heavy. There was no tell- starter In Mud as Jamaica zero hour change in riding and he knew it was the never- for Hayward. I | Homer, Wild Throw the third hit off Native Dancer. Were he to Trainer Ed It also strategy paid off in the Kentucky ! Shea. ing this morning how valuable was By tha Associated Press i before-beaten Native Dancer. After was another first for Breeder Derby today for little Henry “Iknew horse By the Associated Press Vernon put the Nats out win the Derby, and the Preakness and Belmont to follow, the L. Jones, NEW j my was running in again. Warner jr., whose YORK, May 2—Mrs. Moreno. * out then,” he said. “He didn't CHICAGO, May 2. Ferris front Shea had difficul- horse could become the most valuable in American history. Hermitage | ty in the eighth Farm had been ex- Ethel duPont Wier’s Royal Vale, His plan was to rate Dark Star have anything left to come on Fain, American League batting when Johnny ** * * pecting bigger things from Royal champion Groth and Hank an 11-to-l outsider, won the in third place during the early again. But we got to the wire the past two seasons, Edwards singled Bay Gem, who also was bred running. He expected Native slammed one of his rare homers and Wertz walked to load the —When Alfy Vanderbilt was a 19-year-old $60,000-added Gallant Fox and I knew we had won by THE STABLE Dancer ana Correspondent to go something like a head.” for three runs and an error pro- bases. In that crisis, the dan- sophomore at Yale he unaccountably bought a horse. He Handicap at Jamaica today as gerous Elliott, leading the Derby to the front at the start. Eric Guerin, Native Dancer’s duced a winning fourth run in a league Day Betting' didn’t need one, especially at Yale. Back home were a great the even-money favorite, Crafty He changed his mind the first j rider, was disappointed. His hectic ninth inning for an 8-7 ; in runs batted in with 17, flied deep Busby many horses because Mrs. Charles Amory, his mother, owned Hits $4,306,065 Admiral, finished fourth. time the horses came under the jhorse was bumped on the first White Sox victory over the Yan- to in center. wire, quarter-mile kees today. Terwilliger Caps Rally. Sagamore Farm which he was to inherit. But he hastened A small Saturday crowd of a from the turn, he said, but not enough To Set New Record start. Or rather Dark Star to throw him badly off stride. The triumph, which moved to his own entry into racing when he plunked down S3OO for a 30,063 saw Royal Vale catch Restricted one hit in the Saratoga yearling By the Associated Press changed his mind for him. ! “It was in the stretch that we Chicago into second place only first three innings, the filly named Sue Jones at the sales. the pace-settting Crafty Admi- “We were on top,” Moreno ex- i Nats LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 2. failed,” he said. "Native Dancer a game behind the Yankees, was ; erupted for three runs against because Sue Jones much of plained, “and I got the feeling I This is mentioned not was a —The thousand of lucky ral at the half-mile pole, then didn’t run like he is supposed to a pitching carnival, in- th ® 6-foot-4 Larsen in the plenty ¦ which I fourth horse but because throughout Vanderbilt’s tenure as a and unlucky visitors at open up a four-length lead com- had of horse under me. in the stretch.” cluded five Chicago and four after Ed Yost went down swing- I decided I’d better let my horse Yankee famous race owner his fillies and mares have been the biggest Churchill Downs today bet ing into the stretch.