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j WELL-EARNED VICTORY All Upset Outstays High Foot in Courageous Fashion. • Accounts for Twenty-Eighth Renewal of the Bashford Manor Stakes at Churchill Downs. . — » LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 30.— Running the five-eighths in the record time of 1 :00 for the stake, the Southland Stables All Upset, ridden by R. Zucchini, defeated the Valley Lake Stables High Foot by the shortest possible margin to account for the twenty-eighth annual running of the Bashford Manor Stakes, for masculine juveniles, before a record Memorial Day crowd at Churchill Downs this afternoon. Sydney, owned by J. N. Camden but racing in the colors of D. E. Stewart, finished in third place, four lengths back, and was followed by ten others of the leading youngsters, of which the Wil-shire Stables Jim Dandy was fourth. Although a number of the participants loomed up promisingly at various stages of the race, the running was dominated by the winner and High Foot, and their duel rivalled any in the long record of the fixture. In contrast to the winners fast start and swift finding of his best stride, was the slow start R. De Prema obtained with High Foot, chiefly as a result of the rider being caught napping at the barrier. While he rushed the swift son of Prince Pal at excessive speed for the first quarter, which saw All Upset sprinting into the lead, he was forced to lose much ground, but at the turn had reached second place just half a length back of All Upset. There followed a fast pace by All Upset, which was able to save all possible ground and De Prema appeared to experience difficulty keeping High Foot from swerving behind the leader after he had dropped back a trifle on the stretch turn. It was not until in the final eighth that High Foot settled down and with each stride he gradually improved his position, yet just failed to head the fleet and courageous All Upset, which rallied repeatedly in the final eighth of a mile and well deserving his triumph. In racing into third place, Sydney steadily improved his position while racing in close quarters much of the way, and he was going fast in the final stages, as was Jim Dandy, another which began sluggishly. All Upset, which raced coupled with Play time, which was outrun throughout, was Continued on twenty-fourth page. WELL-EARNED VICTORY Continued from first page. second choice with the large crowd to High Foot, and his victory netted Charles Bacha-rach, New Orleans patron, ,100. There was ,000 for second, 00 to third, and Jim Dandy saved entrance and starting fees amounting to 20. The attractive program combined with ideal weather helped to bring to the course an attendance second only to that of Derby Day. The holiday throng was treated to high class sport, climaxed by the spectacular finish in the feature race. The well backed Geo. Groom scored his second victory at the meeting and third in as many starts, when, under a good ride by apprentice J. Hikes, he outsprinted The Bat, Percentage and six others in the introductory race. Slow to begin, the winner was taken to the extreme outside to work his way up and, after taking the lead in the stretch, swerved to the inside, but was not seriously endangered by The Bat. Percentage, after suffering extensively from being crowded and blocked in the first half mile of the six and one-half furlongs, closed a big gap in the stretch and took third honors from Star Forward. The second race, the first of the meeting over five and one-half furlongs, for two-year-olds, which brought out a dozen maidens, resulted in an easy win for H. P. Headleys Coral Beach, with Bell Smith, the favorite, second and Long Run third. The race was marked by an accident, in which jockey Willie Pool suffered numerous bruises and lacerations when unseated from Big Stuff when his saddle slipped as his mount was racing in fourth place on the stretch turn. "While Coral Beach set his own pace and led by a big margin after the first quarter, Bell Smith was raced from a good distance back and, finishing with a rush, easily overhauled Long Run for second place in the final seventy yards. The latter, making his first start, raced green and swerved throughout, causing some crowding. There was another glaring exhibition of rough riding which has marked much of the racing during the meeting, and one of the outstanding form reversals of the Kentucky season came with the running of the third race, won by Whiskarm, after K. Noe forced Gold Bet, his mount, and Watch On, Broom-shot and Dumpy into a bad jam in the stretch. The race was over six and one-half furlongs and Jake Heupel brought the winner from last place to win by a nose from The Southerner, while George McCrann took third. The placed trio were extremely lucky to miss the crowding in the stretch and sped past the jammed quartet almost before they could be untangled. The stewards held Noe to blame for the interference and suspended him for a period of ten days. The colors of Phil K. Laffoon and Henry Yeiser were carried to their first victory at the meeting when the four-year-old Fargo easily defeated a small and lowly band over the one mile and a sixteenth route in the fourth race. After forcing the pace of Miss Lee without much effort for a half mile, Fargo took command and led by a big margin all through the stretch, where Illustrious and Spotlight moved up slightly and took second and third places as named. The winner was ridden by Heupel, his second of the afternoon.
