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THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Friday, Aug. 2, 1968
SILVER ON SPORTS by Jess Silver
Jockey Walter Blum
When Walter Blum rode Gre
cian Count to victory at Arling
ton Park recently he became
only the 11th jockey in history
to reach the 3,000 mark. Now
34 and in his 16th season, the
former national riding champion
from Brooklyn revealed that he
plans to ride five more years.
His only goal left in horse racing
is to be aboard a Kentucky
Derby winner.
“You know I have no regrets.
I’d do everything the same way
if I had the ehanoe to begin all
over,” said Blum. “I knew the
minute I first came on the race
track that this was the life I
wanted.”
Ben and Julius Slutsky of the
Nevele Hotel and Nevele Acres
Stable in Ellenville, N. Y., have
sold 25% of the trotter Nevele
Pride to veteran horseman Louis
Resnick. Nevele Pride was the
1967 Harness Horse of the Year,
and is doing just as well this
season. The Slutsky brothers are
the principal owners of Monti-
cello Raceway where Leon
Greenberg was recently elected
president. A lawyer, Greenberg
formerly served as administra
tive vice president. Monticello,
in its 11th season, is the fifth-
largest harness racing track in
the country.
Second best money-winning
trotter a year ago was Perfect
Freight, owned by Arthur
Brown’s ABC Stables, Brown
also heads the New York
Americans of the American Bas
ketball Associat ion. Perfect
Freight won last year’s $100,000
United Nations Trot at Yonkers
and the Gold Division of the
Challenge Cup.
Jack Dreyfus Jr., founder of
New York’s Dreyfus Fund, is the
only member of the board of
trustees of the New York Racing
Association who is not a mem
ber of the Jockey Club. Dreyfus,
owner of the Hobeau Farms
Stables, is a distant relative of
Frances’ famed Albert Dreyfus.
Jockey Willie Harmatz rode a
12-1 shot to victory at the Strub
Stakes in Santa Anita . . . George
Morton Levy of Roosevelt Race
way was honored recently as
Man of the Year by the Harness
Horseman International . . .
Dave Haber, president of Suf
folk Downs has been voted into
the New England Harness
Writers’ Association Hall of
Fame.
Many of the stories about the
opening of the new Belmont
Park in New York claimed the
track and the Belmont Stakes
were named for August Belmont
2nd. Actually they were named
for his father who came to the
United States in 1837 as a rep
resentative of the Rothschild
banking firm. In 1866 Belmont
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became president of the Amer
ican Jockey Club and Jerome
Park. He served as president of
the American Jockey Club until
1887, and was the leading mon
ey-winning owner in the U. S.
in 1889-90. Belmont died in
1890.
Philip H. Iselin, the president
and chairman of the board of
Monmouth Park Racetrack in
Oceanport, N. J., is vice presi
dent and treasurer of the New
York Jets of the American Foot
ball League. Iselin was one of
four partners who bought out
Sonny Werblin’s interest in the
Jets for $1,638,000. Iselin heads
the Korell Corporation of New
York, a women’s apparel com
pany.
The partners clfiim that Wer-
blin never informed them about
the workings of the team, while
Werblin noted: “My partners
evidenced no interest in the club
the three or four years we were
struggling. Then they began in
terfering. I think they just want
ed some recognition more than
anything. It was a lot of fun and
I loved it, but this friction took
the fun out of it.” >
Twenty famous coaches, in
cluding Harry Litwack, Abe
Grossfeld and Mike Jacobson,
will conduct four simultaneous
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Mr. and Mrs. Stephen M. Kaz-
low of Atlanta announce the
birth of a son, Stuart Michael, on
June 6. Cantor Pincus Aloof per
formed the Bris. Grandparents
are Mr. and Mrs. Seymour Kaz-
low and Mr. and Mrs. Morris
Dreyer, all of Miami.
Mr. and Mrs/'AHtfaham Fai-
genblat of Atlanta announce the
birth of a son, Noah Harris, on
June 1. Cantor Pincus Aloof per
formed the Bris. Grandparents
are Mr. and Mrs. Harry Weind-
ling of Los Angeles.
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These winners must call in per
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within the next two weeks. No
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Abe Goldberg, Sol Shaffer,
Isaac Capelouto, Robert Enteen,
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Bernard Howard, Raymond
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Parks,
Saul Blass, Irving Sahiff, Leo
nard Diamond, Max Alterman,
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