Cheap at the price

Press, 14 August 1980, Page 20

Cheap at the price

NZPA New Jersey “I don’t care if he never wins another race,” said Del Insko. And the 49-year-old trainer-driver certainly did not after his two-year-old pacer Land Grant earned $1.030;637. That is what Land Grant did last Wednesday night in winning the $2,036,275 Woodrow Wilson race at the Meadowlands, which was the richest horse race of any type in history, a race in which even the. fifth-pace finisher earned $103,063;. ‘‘The colt- cost .$61,500,” said Inskoi “He’s cheap now, isn’t he?” , ' ; •/ y To many in the crowd of 27,441, Land Grant did not look worth very much at the

top of the straight But he looked good to Insko. “The first time I thought I had a real good chance during the race for the major part of the money was at thb top of the stretch about the three-quarter pole,” he said.

At that point, Land Grant was ninth. Then he charged down the outside. At - the wire, the first seven finishers were within 2j lengths of one another . . . and it

was Land Grant on top. Land Grant, owned by Stephen Lang and Yizar Glaser, was a half length in front of-Armbro Wolf■ with Nero’s BB another neck back and one length in front of Areba Areba, the only fillv in. the race. Land Grant comn’eted f’-' mile cn t’-- -r-.- 1 . • one-mile 1.’ mm T-.Bs,