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Run for the Roses: Flowers essential to horse race^
United Press International
The life of the average race
horse is no bed of roses but ex
pensive blankets of sweet-smell
ing blossoms lie in store for
those thoroughbreds fortunate
enough to win a Triple Crown
race.
The traditional flowers —
roses for the Kentucky Derby,
“black-eyed Susans” for the Pre-
akness, and green carnations
for the Belmont Stakes — have
become as much a part of the
racetrack pageantry as the tro
phies, drinks and songs asso
ciated with the springtime con
tests.
In fact, the Kentucky Derby
winner’s famed horseshoe
shaped garland of 500 red roses
prompted a New York sports-
writer to dub the race “The Run
for the Roses” back in 1925.
“Once you take a rose off the
Derby blanket, what is there
left? it’s the thrill of a lifetime,”
said Shirley Foster, whose hus
band owns 1983 Derby winner,
Sunny’s Halo.
Mrs. Foster, of Toronto, was
more fortunate that some past
owners in that she still has one
of the prized roses in her pos
session — a bloom preserved in
a music box that plays my “Old
Kentucky Home.”
In 1981, bystanders grabbed
the rose garland after it was re
moved from the neck of Pleas
ant Colony, stripped the flowers
from their backing and then
passed them up the grandstand
as souvenirs.
“John Campo (Pleasant Colo
ny’s trainer) never got any roses
and he was really disap
pointed,” said Edgar Allen, a
spokesman for Churchill
Downs. Allen said Campo was
About 2,400 dyed daisies go into the 80 inch by
30 inch blanket used to cover the horse fortu
nate enough to make it into the Preakness win
ner’s circle. About five of the florist’s staffers
work three days to glue the flowers onto the
burlap blanket, which is lined with felt to pro
tect the winning thoroughbred from its scratchy
surface.
eventually appeased with a cou
ple roses that were found on the
ground and some from other
bouquets.
The track paid about $2,000
last year to Kingsley Walker
Florists of Louisville, Ky. — the
racetrack’s florist for more than
50 years — for the winner’s gar
land, jockey’s bouquet and
other roses used in the Derby,
Allen said.
Floral designer Don Nicoulin
said it takes two people about
eight hours to fashion the 90
inch by 14 inch Derby garland
from 500 Viva roses, which this
year will be imported from
South America.
“Each rose has to be hand-
sewn onto heavy backing, with
about four stitches each. The
garland also has to be lined with
slipper satin so the horse won’t
be poked by the stems,” said
Nicoulin, adding that a debate
arises each year over whether to
trim the ends with emerald
green or deep red ribbon.
Neither Nicoulin nor Allen
said they knew why roses were
chosen over other flowers for
the Derby’s post-race presenta
tion — but said the tradition
started back in 1896.
The story of the Preakness’
black-eyed susans is a little less
fuzzy. In an effort to give the
second leg of the Triple Crown
its own, unique floral tradition,
Pimlico Race Course officials
stopped draping the Preakness
winner with roses back in 1940
— and started using Maryland’s
black-and-yellow state flower.
However, the decision has
proven to be a headache for flo
rists charged with making the
winner’s blanket because black-
eyed Susans are out-of-season
in mid-May, the date when the
Preakness is traditionally run.
“Since black-eyed Susans are
not available anywhere, we’ve
found it necessary to improve
on nature. We take daisies —
tint their petals yellow and dye
their centers black — and they
become ‘black-eyed susans,”’
said Paul Raimondi Sr., man
ager of Raimondi’s Florists in
Baltimore.
Raimondi said about 2,400
dyed daisies go into the 80 inch
by 30 inch blanket used to cover
the horse fortunate enough to
make it into the Preakness win
ner’s circle. About five of the
florist’s staffers work three days
to glue the flowers onto the bur
lap blanket, which is lint®,
felt to protect the winnin;. United
oughbred from its scratctWjjQ^j
f ace - , es, motl
“The blanket is onlt MM^ eri t<
horse’s back for a swBheir v
when he comes into tk 0 jl m iik
tier’s circle — and theniijp
right off. But it makesiMe me
picture,” said Joseph jeo their
Jr., the Farrningdale Ian Wir
flower wholesaler whopajector of
the green carnations mlNutrit
Belmont Stakes. riversity
Natalie estimates trad|wlYork C
cials, who buy loose can®
and then fashion theirj^j an y w
blanket, spend about own t
cloak the Belmont ^ijjpbecciitse
carnations. Ration i
"It’s not cheap, not ckRfood r
all. But 1 think the race] n j t ic said
are willing — and able
for something a little Wmick z
Natalie said. Da ’J
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CHICAGO — Children who
fear or avoid school may not be
just expressing a desire to play
hooky — they may be suffering
emotional abuse from their tea
chers, researchers say.
Dr. Richard D. Krugman and
registered nurse Mary K. Krug
man of the University of Colo
rado School of Medicine in
Denver studied 17 children in
the third and fourth grades as
signed to a male teacher in an
upper middle-class school dis
trict.
The teacher called the stu
dents “stupid” or dumb,”
screamed at them until they
cried, allowed some students to
harrass and belittle others, set
unrealistic academic goals for
the grade level, tied string to a
child’s chair and pulled it out
from under him, threw home
work at children, pinched,
slapped and shook them and
pulled their ears.
In September 1982, the chil
dren began to undergo behav
ior and personality changes that
were noticeable to parents
within two weeks of the begin
ning of school.
The symptoms included ex
cessive worry about school per
formance, bad feelings about
themselves, hatred of school
and onset of headaches, stom
ach aches, nightmares and with
drawal.
“Many parents inlially attrib
uted the behaviors to normal
anxiety as the children adjusted
to a harder grade level,” the re
searchers said in the American
Medical Association’s American
Journal of Diseases of Children.
The children reported ac-
udent aff
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lions by the teacher thilBlems i
them. But parents iniujoblems.
not pay much attention a Since bei
complaints, attributingliffin in U
school adjustment. B“8 to ’
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initially took the posiutBrs, he <
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moved. A new teacheriTh the Ur
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setting, the researcherssdnhe link
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17 children disappeared»i? m the U
two weeks, they said. HitlH
two children requiredps'ppr the
ric therapy to help rebuipy° r >
esteem. jptd long
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child is his workplace, (|
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searchers said. “Positives
teem is the essence of diej
identity and it rises andii
relation to the behavioroiiTy ^ ^ j
interacting with the child ities sai)
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children about themselvdB (m m
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are aware of their ch.l:fj£.“
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recognize symptoms of iree years ;
tional abuse, differentiate Some of
from school phobia-avow e f roni |
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rious sequelae,” they said g™ good le
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