Trainer

At Belmont Park, where her father has been famed for 25 years as a trainer of racehorses for people like Bernard Mannes Baruch, Herbert Bayard Swope and Mrs. Graham Fair Vanderbilt. Mary Hirsch as a small girl made a habit of keeping trainers' hours. She got up at dawn to watch the workouts, helped her father's stablemen feed the horses, grew to know as much about such matters as Max Hirsch himself. In 1931, when she finished school.

Mary Hirsch went to work as her father's assistant. Two years ago, she used her savings to buy a 2-year-old of her own, named Tullihoo, asked The Jockey Club to give her a trainer's license. The Jockey Club refused. A year ago, when several of her father's friends had assigned horses to her private care, Mary Hirsch began to feel that it was embarrassing to have to train them in her father's name. Last summer, after having been granted licenses in Illinois and Michigan, she again requested a license. Last week the stewards of The Jockey Club gave Mary Hirsch the first training license they have ever granted a woman.

By Jockey Club stewards and other race-track notables, who make a habit of stopping at Max Hirsch's Belmont Park cottage on summer mornings for breakfasts of hot bread and ham & eggs, his frail-looking, sad-eyed 22-year-old daughter is usually called "Miss Mary." She rises at 5, spends the morning at the track, goes to the races in the afternoon, to bed at 9. She owns three dogs: cocker spaniel, pointer and Dalmatian. She wants to stud)' aviation, has never ridden in the show-ring or to hounds. This summer she expects officially to train her own horses, Captain Argo and Terrific. Last week in Columbia. S. C. she said modestly: "I have a few horses which can run fast. If they escape illness and injury, I think they will win in New York this spring."

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