- ‘Three Year Olds Sold to Bis ~ Owners for Fabulous Sum ‘BALTIMORE, | Ache, making | former Md. ( UPI)—Bally his last start for his’ owner, turned on a burst Misha” | | T? V. ‘Lark, who lost two of three ; starts to. Bally Ache, last year, was | ‘ another four len ths farther back | | of speed today to win the Preak- {in fourth place. 6 ness Prep by four lengths. | Jockey Bobby Ussery did not al~The sleek three-year-old colt, who low Bally Ache to go all out until | jfinished second. to Venetian Way the last quarter of a mile. He kept 'in last week’s Kentucky Derby, his mount a half-length in front of iwas sold by Leonard Fruchtman Divine Comedy until he final bend earlier in the day for $1,250,000 to a group headed by Joseph Arnold, |a Lexington, Ky., attorney and |horse owner. He ran today for -Fruchtman. Fruchtman paid $2,500 for. Bally | Ache as a yearling and sold, him |for the second highest price ever | paid for a race horse. Only Nashua, who was sold for $1,251, 200, drew |a higher price. Bally | start Ache took and never the lead ‘at the gave way as he | beat Divine Comedy in the mile and one-sixteenth stepping stone to next Saturday’s $150,000 Preakness Stakes here at Pimlico. Celtic Ash, who trailed- ‘Divine | Comedy by ‘six lengths midway ‘in the back stretch, of the was only runner-up * a head in at the fin- and then moved Bally Ache out to two-length lead approaching home. Bally Ache then drew away for a 1:44-2/5 victory. He paid $2.80 and $2.20. There was no show wagering. Divine Comedy returned | $3.00. 83s" ‘Bally Ache, who had amassed earnings of $540, 277 prior to the}. race, picked up a winner’s purse of $3,250. — | Airman’s Guide won the $20,000 | Added Black Eyed Susan Stakes: over three rivals. Willie Harmatz guided the bay filly to a 1:46- 1/5 clocking for the mile and one-sixteenth test. Chalvedaele, Warlike and Leemowlee trailed Airmans Guide across the ‘finish line. The winner paid $5.40. There was no place or show betting.