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R DE PREMA OMAHA STAR Pilots Three Winners at AkSar Ben Inaugural Including Shasta ShastaGold Gold in Feature Race of Day I OMAHA Neb June 1 A crowd of 8000 saw the Omaha meeting at AkSarBen Field get under way today and conditions could I not have been more favorable for the open openiing It was an ideal spring day and every iing I one of the seven contests were hard fought foughtThe i j The track wis fast and the gathering very veryI I enthusiastic and took a lively interest in the proceedings proceedingsThe The feature race the Omaha Inaugural Handicap was won by B Cheechs Shasta Gold which was racing coupled with Glen ister II Tamarind an outsider was second and Lord Julian third Tamarind showed the j i thej way until the last sixteenth where Shasta Gold caught and passed him to win going away Pat the favorite was a disappoint ¬ ment and was badly beaten Jockey De Prema rode the winner which ran his score up to three for thp afternoon War Salam raced fast through the stretch to win the first race and returned big odds while Christina one of the field horses was second and Texas third thirdGovernor Governor Seth carried the colors of E E Major to victory in the second race He finished fast to defeat Miss Drapeau by a narrow margin after the latter had set the pace Bonnie Marguerite was third thirdSlow Slow Time made it a double for the Major Stable and jockey De Prema by getting home in advance of the others in the third race She got up in the final strides to defeat the longpriced Time and Tide while Marvelite was third thirdC C Sawyers consistent plater Musketeer was best of the band that went to the post in the fourth race He was outrun in the early stages but saved ground in the stretch and won drawing clear Silent Lillian the pacemaker lasted to save second place from Parnell
