Word: hambletonian
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...owners of the Yonkers Raceway, meanwhile, were made public. Head of the Yonkers Trotting Association and owner of all voting stock is William H. Cane, 79, sportsman who built Boyle's Thirty Acres in Jersey City (scene of the Dempsey-Carpentier "Battle of the Century") and promoted the Hambletonian at his Goshen, N.Y. track as the nation's top annual harness race. Other stockholders included J. Russel Sprague, G.O.P. national committeeman, boss of Long Island's Nassau County and close friend of Governor Dewey; Dr. Richard Hoffman, best known as Frank Costello's psychiatrist...
...Joseph) Elgin Armstrong, a horse-fancying contractor from Brampton, Ont., took a fancy to a yearling filly named Helicopter. Half an hour later, he bought the little brown trotter from her trainer and part owner, Del Miller, for $7,900. Explains Armstrong now: "I wanted to win the Hambletonian...
...brother Edwin) guessing. Last year she won only four of 21 starts, but her purses repaid the purchase price, plus $85.41. This year she won four out of ten races, blithely coming in last one week and finishing first the next. Last week, finally entered in the Hambletonian, trotting's annual classic, the fickle filly again kept a crowd of some 20,000 guessing, including city slickers who jammed the gaily canopied grandstand at Good Time Park in Goshen, N.Y. In the first heat, Helicopter lost ground by breaking her gait, coasted in 17th in a field...
Helicopter's victory produced some records of the kind carefully watched by tradition-minded Hambletonian devotees. She was the first Hambletonian winner ever sired by another winner-Hoot Mon, who set the Hambletonian's fastest heat mark of two minutes flat in 1947.* Driver Harvey, 29, a Vermont farm boy, was the youngest winning driver in Hambletonian history, no small feat in a sport-dominated by grand old men. And for Canada's two Armstrong brothers-the first foreign owners to win the race-Helicopter earned the biggest Hambletonian purse to date...
...Hoot Mon's forebear was Hambletonian X, ancestor of almost every modern U.S. trotter and pacer. In 24 seasons, he got 1,331 foals, bringing nearly $200,000 in stud fees to his owner, a onetime farm hand named William Rysdyk, who bought him for $125. Hambletonian (after whom the race is named) in turn was sired by Abdallah I, an evil-tempered individualist who, after siring hundreds of foal's, wound up at 31 hitched to a fish peddler's wagon. After venerefully kicking the wagon to pieces, proud old Abdal lah spent the final months...