Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-05-04 | Page 14 | Breaks Help Bold Venture

Breaks Brea ks Help Bold Bo id Venture Ve n tu re B By HENRY McLEMORE 1 United Pre Press 41 Sports Writer LOUISVILLE Ky May 4 A 4 A good hO horse a good rider and good break breaks S There in nine words and a pair of commas Is the story of the sixty second running of what has occasionally been described as the historic Kentucky derby It was quite the proper thing in Louisville LouisvIll today just as it was yesterday and around s sundown Saturday afternoon to say the best horse didn't win that Brevity Brevity Brey- Brey ity and not Bold Venture should have corne come home in front to take takeS the hatful of money the gold cup and the immortality Maybe so 80 Its It's entirely pos possible that th the close of the the 36 racing season will wil find Lind Brevity soundly established as the top year 3 And Bold Venture tagged d as strictly a a shot one h horse But tight right now no amount of oC second guessing can becloud the fact the big Schwartz gamester Is the No 1 fellow In his cl class Ss You ca cartt carlt asic a horse to 10 do more more than win and nd that's what Bold Venture did against lt a field that included all nil the good ones ones in a race where it was for keeps from the startIng startIng start start- ing gate right on down to the p payoff payoff pay pay- y- y off oft slot And he won wen it the the hard way vay If It theres there's any truth in the old sports belief that the pressure the pressure Is S toughest when youre you're winging put out ut front he didn't didn't- lay Jay off the pa pace e eana and ana follow the crowd Out In the middle the of ba back k streich stretch the got his head and picking in up rivals rivals-in clusters banged squa squarely cly on top They had a little better than half halt halfa a mile to catch him in But they couldn't do It That tremendous show of oC speed in the back stretch when the tho finish w was wa's as s a nearly a. a mile milc away was a daring darin glorious gam gain ble A bold bold venture you might say But nothing ventured nothing gained the little baby- baby faced aced Han Hanford ford must have said to himself as ns he alo aon along g o othe on the back of his mount And on once e eh h his s mind was made up his silks siUs Continued on In Following Pare Page Breaks Help Bold Venture Continued from Preceding Page began to go to town To me Brevity's greatest show of courage did not come in that magnificent challenge in the stretch but in that heart-breaking heart moment shortly after the start which was the nearest thing to a wild west show since Buffalo Bills Bill's act when he was spun half way around and knocked to his knees There are few horses and few riders with as stout hearts as the Widener beauty and Wayne Vayne Wright the Idaho Hot P Potato tato showed there Undaunted Wright straightened Brevity out put him himIn himIn himin In stride and hit the quarter mile post no worse ot off than ninth a length and a half halt back of Bold Venture in eighth place To Wrights Wright's credit he didn't beef beet much about the mishap A rodeo rider himself when the chips arc are down remember his work at the head of ot the stretch in the Santa Anita 1 he knows Its It's every man for himself when the reward revard is rich It U was strictly a two horse race The others didn't belong in the same league Grand Slam Teufel The Fighter and all the rest would have done well to have jumped the fence in hi the tho back backstretch stretch anI called it a day