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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 Office: 948-2279 Morris H. Manheim, Jr. MONUMENTS Horn*: TR. 4-2055 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 31B ^ t D 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. Announce New Winners of Free Art Theatre Ducats Complimentary tickets to the Peachtree Art Theatre will be awarded to the following lucky Southern Israelite subscribers. These winners must call in per son at The Southern Israelite of fices, 390 Courtland St., N. E., within the next two weeks. No tickets will be mailed. Morris Asher, David Kletsky, Harry Kalefsky, Abe Skott, Ber nard W. Cohen, Leonard L. Segal, Abe Goldberg, Sol Shaffer, Isaac Capelouto, Robert Enteen, Sidney Kaplan, Dr. Benjamin Saffan, Bernard Howard, Raymond Kurtz, Irving Sonshein, I. Berk- owitz, Harry Elkins, Dr. Harry Parks, Saul Blass, Irving Sahiff, Leo nard Diamond, Max Alterman, Dave Leeson, Kenneth Gtnburg, David Nelson. Maurer Maintenance Services, Inc. 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