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THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, friday, April

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Bill Hartack Shoots At The Top
In The Racing World Once Again
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By John Filzwntcr

Pcstano. Lang's verbiage was heard

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"I told him that if he put his
mind toward the goal that he
Bill Hartack hasn't changed ro.u"d ,the r,acine ord;
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"Hartacc is ungrateful. He hates hoped to be the best rider he would
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since that October day in 19)2 rncing. i feej sorry for him
succeed. He certainly hasn't failed."
when trainer Tunic Corbin put said.
Lost in the furore over Lang's
The Wildcat baseballers will stait a
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lads leg up on Hals 1 lay a phon. conversation the other day. natlon.s riders. ,,e h,J tne fi0?dthe wun uic l jeers or AuDurn and the hopes ot the .outheasterii
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G6 to 1 shot running at ob- Actually, Hartack loves racing. HialeaH and Gulfstream and by V0nfcrcncc Ulv,s,on championship will hinge on it. Monday
IeM.c?.u,d 8CLB" the,.,fav"riable April 7 had ridden 106 winners and Tuesday the Cats meet the Florida Gators in another must
scure Charles Townj V. Va.
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Publicity
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like Shoe- - sInce jan. l to take a
lead
and tUaie AlCar0' rlders ovcr runnerup Shoemaker,
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changed, L so it
seem to he admires, by the way. Race- .
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s goal for this year?
Hartack, who interrupted the great track publicists from Florida to
the ,eadln r,dfr of lhe
Willie Shoemaker's riding reign Chicago have told him so.
T? bf,
with 417 victories in 1955 and
But Hartak never has sought country'
Il0w does ne rate tne
ultimately led the Shoe for three publicity. He onlv seeks winners
olds cominK UP to the May 7 Ken- straight years.
He has earned well over one mil- It was back in 1955 that Corbin, lion dollars in the last five years tucky Derby?
"I think It's between Bally Ache
insisting: Hartack was ready to ride in a sport where the rich jet
and Venetian Way. to speed horses.
after less than two years as an richer.
Hartack would quit tomorrow if against Eagle Admiral and Victoria
exercise boy, obtained Chick Lang:
as riding agent after 'Tack had he thought he no longer could P8trvK
la,f Iunni,ng hoses"
Tompion, winner of
gone through six agents at West win. He has that burning desire
to excel in anything he does and the Santa Anita Derby?
Virginia
tir ne was a good one as a
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he does race ridine best.
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I haven t seen him this
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spring but they tell me he's better
hi ankle a
been selling automobiles in Balti- - knew wnen he
year.
more. He was a good handicapper week before the 1958 Kentuokv than he was last
Derby when he lost the mount on
Hartack's new aeent?
and knew many trainers.
"He's
When he was 2, his dad, also Tim Tarn after having won the lives in Howard Pestano. He's 29,
1957 Derby with Tim's Calumet
Hialeah, Fla., and has a
Chick Lang, won the 1928 Kentremendous war record.
Farm stablemate, Iron Liege.
tucky Derby aboard Reigh Count,
"I've got to go to Gulfstream
This anecdote from Elmer E.
y,
and his grandfather, J. P.
Smith, principal at Black Lick now. I'm riding in the first race."
trained Judge Himes, the Township High in Twin
He not only won it with a horse
Rocks,
1903 Derby winner.
Pa., best exemplifies Hartack's de- - that hadn't been in the money all
So little Chick had to know sires and what he despises
about winter but wo" three more races
something about horses. In nearly racing:
on the same program.
five years with Hartack, Lang,
"'I'd like to be the best rider To be sure, 12 million dollars he
now 34, lived well. He was getting in the business,' Billy Hartack told has won in purses in less than
20 percent of Hartack's take and me one day
after he had been eight years of riding have not
probably earned close to a quarter riding a year," Smith recalls, changed the former high school
of a million dollars booking mounts " ' There's only one thing about trap drummer from the coal fields
for the former coal mnier's son.
of Pennsylvania.
racing that bothers me.'
Recently, when Hartack tired of
Willie Hartack is still one of the
"What is that?" I asked?
riding some bad horses, he de"'It's the gambling in racing,' three best riders around. Maybe
cided to get a new agent, Howard Billy replied.
the best.
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Netmen Meet Transylvania,
Golfers Play Tennessee

scries.

Kentucky pitching w ill have to be at its best and a fellow
called .'"Horse" will lc carrying a tremendous load at the plate.
rugged
210 pound catcher, will be
counted on to deliver the power hitting, that has already made
him the topic of the SFC and has made UK the baseball con- .,,IwiP l,UI if ,sTuesday afternoon when Kentucky trounced Truim lvania,
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24-the "Horse" had two singles, a triple and a UK) foot plus
honw nm T,is rovilirti l,;m ,,;,), fniir nm, ,,;..t(.(1 ; ' , i,(M)vfhis season s total to 28 and a new record for a VK b.itsma-i- . His
homer was number six and also established a new W ildcat
record,
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Wildcat golfers and tennismen
Tomorrow's match will tee off at
10 a.m.
this weekend with
Ballard Moore's tennis squad
home meetings as both battle to
meets cross-tow- n
rival Transyl-- 1
better their season marks.
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The linksmen of Coach L. L.
Martin will meet Cincinnati tomorrow at Idle Hour Country Club
and then travel south for a conference match with Tennessee in
Knoxville and the Southeastern
Conference Tournament in Athens,
Ga., Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

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Coach Martin reportedly feels
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SEC meet. Four losses suffered by
the Kentucky team have been by
a total of 3 and one-ha- lf
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