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GOURMANDS SIXTH VICTORY Vastly Improved Racer Triumphs Over Gray Gables and Pictor. ♦-— — - Close Finishes Enthuse and Repay Those Braving Coldest Day of Meeting. — ♦- — RCW hri.F.ans. La . Pebi -j 7. Tke astP- improved liotiriiiaiid continues I" figure i ti ,c i"UM.v iii the ntut »r the Fair Greemds and thin afterawwa scared his most impressive — eci SS When he finished in advance of Gray Gables and liclur in the f a • In"- attiattlaa. ■ rai-p It :i mil- Bad I q Miter in which tit*- trio i.f placed hsrscs were regarded as wHI matched thai they rated almost joint favorites. Kings Champion »n« the ather ■tarter in the rnco. hal his present farm is each tiiat it will cause a ■eaaattea if he i* returned a wtaner soon. Ill. inrir:n legged Pietar eras bcacfltcd hj the -oft geaag and for a time three tcr.cd to BUtkC a maaway of tin- race, for he look a tea leagths lead in the first luilf mile hat tli" distance whs against hha and lie began tiriirr fast in the lae! eighth and was no match for Oonrmand. The latter rat: forwarder all the war and. overtaking the tiring Pictor in the stretch, saccecdcd in drawing out in the last aciealj yards to win ay a safe margin. Graj Gables, under stronz riding alaa managed to heal Pleter i.v a aeek. II aatrk 1 the sixth victory Hint GaarBHUMl lias achieved in those parts thi-winter in addition to hi lag second and tliird on aereral aecaahaH. Tin- diemaging stonn of almost galeHkc hrteasitj tiia sweat tkis secthm laat night proved beneficial for tli*- track, for i; materially assisted in drying it out. Peweear, it Kti 11 was heavy, though the path Bearer tli- inner rail al forded firmer foot-in;: and was th" especial abjective of all the Jockeys, Today was the eold --t taj Here this a inter and aw a result there was a sharp decrease lo.ticc-iible in the attendanee figures. The betting sin. wed impro-w-pi.-nt. and as favorites and Reread ehoiecs were aaifanaly aaccesefel the layers agaaa Were jolted hard.
