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ARGENTINE IDOL DEFEATED After he had won six straight races, and come to be hailed by horsemen in the. Argentine as one of the fastest- thoroushbreOs in the world, the three-year-old colt Lom-bardo was defeated for the first time hi his career by Serio in the Classic Comparacion at Buenos Aires. The distance was . 2,200 meters, and the purse was 20,000 pesos. Only -three horses ran. The winners time was 2 :13. In his previous start, Lombardo es- . tablished a new Argentine record for 3,000 meters. He ran the- distance in3;07. In this event Serio ran .second to him.
