Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-07-07 | Page 10 | Zev Greatest of All Money Winners Ugly Gelding Wins Owner $252,596

Zev lev Greatest of All Money Winn Winners 4 j Exterminator Cops SO 0 of f Races Ugly Gelding Wins Owner Editors Editor's note This is the firth fifth o o ot a L series or of six articles on the sport of ot thoroughbred ci racing By W. W M. M BRAUCHER IER N NEA EA s Service Writer Thero have hwe been gr great a jockeys s 's such a Snapper Garrison Ike Ikc Murphy Mur ur ph phy and Earl Sander great trainers trainers' such as Maxie Hirsch Sam 1111 liI and and George Georg-c Odoni Odom but hut after all aH its it's tho tile horse that has to run the race That hat brings bring's us rl right ht down clown to one of ot the greatest racing machines of or all time and if it there ever r was a racing machine with a heart in It It this great horse I had had it It Il Back In 1918 1915 Willis S h 11 n a r p e 1 Kilmer of or Ding Ding- ham hamton ton N. N Y was disappointed when Sun Briar Bri failed ailed to train t m properly for tor tho the l Kentucky derby Dr Kilmer eager easer to hi be r represented In tho turf turC classic went Ul ui up an and down the grass blass co country huntIng hunting hunt hunt- h Ing g. g for another r horse that might n have o a n. chance At that time Exterminator tor old oid Old Slim Slim as he cameto to be known later was an awkward gelding 3 years old and not hl highly regarded r sa ded by tho owner owner J.- J. C. C Milani Dr Dl KUmet Kilmer Kil KU- met mer went wentlo 10 look Jook at Exterminator E and something about abou Phd Old Slim caught his hil ec Ho bought the gelding G for fot- A A few weeks later t that a awk awkWard ard ad gelding the great heart swept across the thc finish line lino a no winner In Jn inA A Americas America's greatest race race the tho Kentuck Kentucky Ken Ken- 1 tuck tucky derby SCORES AVERAGE An And It Jt was the tho sarrio ungainly ungainly- 3 year old old who w was s to Iso go go- go godown down downS downIn In track history as super horse win winner ncr ner of r 50 out of ot races lace with earn earn- c earning rn- rn Ing ings of oC more moro than a quarter o of a milli million n dollars in his years ealS of ot cam cam- 1 aln en g. g Just as as' baseball football and other sports have havo their master masterminds masterminds masterminds minds so so- has tho the thoroughbred sport sport and and Old Slim was it The horse hardly ever failed d to look up into linto the grandstand g when the tho thoe e entries en- en fl- fl tries tIles paraded to the post Whenever When When- ever ho won he ho would f faco o tile the cl crowds again but wh when 1 he as was de defeated defeated de- de teate 1 he ho alwa always s 's turned awa away Exterminators Exterminator's record d ot of In winnings is surpassed surpassed- in American Ameri Amerl- c can n turf tur records s only by Y the th sp speedy edy Zev's Zev Zey won won only 23 races laces however while Old Sli i iv was wis v s out put fn In front at ih the Ire in fh 50 df of his races i Next Neit on on n tho the lIstis list listIs listis is Man o 0 War ar with followed fol foI lowed b by with fth Saraz n might have havo gone sone on to surpass cven even tho record ld of or Zev had hadnot hadnot hadnot not tho the swift gelding turned c cun clin- clin n- n ning went through the season unbeaten as a ri 2 year old but at 3 he began begal to develop tern tern- tem teRl- His frequent performances earn earned d him tho the nickname nick- nick namo name among o of Sulky Sarah t PLOT AGAINST Max ax nh Hirsch sch was training Sara Sara Sar zen sell when the strain of cunning cropped out iri in the grea great runner would do just tile the opposite of or what ho lie was wanted to do studied the tho horse and finally w worked up a scheme heme with Jocke Jockey Fritz Weiner During tho the morning Workout workouts Weiner Welner was to 0 urge Sarah to do dohis dohis his In the tile actual races the thc j jockey Was Instructed to to hol hold him back It worked wouldn't run a under lick all aJl kinds o of urging in the UtO morning but with witha a tight rein would burn up th tIm tho track during durIn the tho afternoon race Sande rode rodo In a a number of his best beat races and could only get s him to run lun by pretending he wanted him to lope Jope Finally became becar e so m mean an nothing coul could l bo done with him a and ho 1 was retired Trainers usually guess uess correctly at a 3 horses horse's quality but Dr Dl Kilmer hilmer r who was so fortunate as to buy bur E Exterminator Ex terminator pr pr l IWO sold ReIgh Count to Mrs John Yohn Hertz Herts for tor 12 12 At At about the thi same tune Dr Dl Kilmer got the tHo price of or for COl Sun Edwin Just a good colt You cant can't always tell about aboul horses 1