Four Forsyth Favorites., Daily Racing Form, 1897-04-30

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FOUR FORSYTE FAVORITES It rained all yesterday afternoon at Forsyth and in consequence the track was a sea of mud The crowd was light but betting brisk and against the ring four favorites and a sec ¬ ond choice scoring scoringThe The afternoons best race was declared off and the opening race was split to fill the gap gapThe The only bad looking race of the meeting came out of the five furlong scramble The Deuce seemed to bo far the best and naturally opened up favorite but the ring was full of sus ¬ picion and the denizens carried The Deuce to 4 to 1 Ella Penzanco the alleged nominee was backed from 5 to 1 to ovens and won like a real lady The Deuce was nowhere nowherePeter Peter McCue the agribultural colt won the twoyearold race in a thorough and trooly rooral way and that fast sprinter Abuse had little trouble in beating his party partyThere There is to be an extra race for Saturday 15 pounds below the scale for threeyear olds and upwards Entries for this race close Friday morning


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