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ANN CLAY IS GRADUATE One of Several Neglected Cap ¬ tures Purse at Fairmount Park Collins Stable Lands Another Winner When WhenCoots Coots Leads Essie and Oul Monsieur Monsieurin in Kings Highway Purse COLLINSVILLE 111 May 22 The Kings Highway Purse at threcTquarters of a mile which featured todays program at Fair mount Park was won by Coots another victor from the George Collins Stable Coots got in ahead of Essie a recent winner and Oui Monsieur a Sir Barton colt was third thirdLemnos Lemnos became a double winner at this meeting when he scored over a band of the lower grade platers in the first race which resulted in a thrilling finish The contributing factor in his victory was the excellent ride jockey L Geving gave the W R Cox representative Mortana mak ¬ ing his first start after a long period of in ¬ activity raced to second place with J H Edwards The Moon taking third The lat ¬ ter was the favored one and gave his ad ¬ mirers a thrill when he raced into a good lead He maintained this well into the stretch where he tired and was supplanted by Morlana which had raced in close at ¬ tendance throughout The son of Morvich however was not equal to the task of with ¬ standing the winner and gave way after a bitter contest in the final sixteenth sixteenthFortunate Fortunate Mann upset calculations in the second race which witnessed a big field in competition and Woodgain the well backed choice going down to defeat After racing in command most of the way Watchword gave way to the winner in the stretch but had a good margin over King Halma for second place The latter was one of a quar ¬ ter that reached the finish so closely aligned that only the judges could separate them themApprentice Apprentice C Pegg who has shown clever ¬ ness in his riding was astride the victor and rode him like a veteran taking him under restraint while Watchword set the pace He was content to race behind the leader until they reached the stretch where he roused his mount and drew away into the lead with ease to be home two lengths to the good goodThe The Audley Farm stable furnished the win ¬ ner of the third in Ann Clay a good looking filly by Wrack and Abbatisha and the lack of support rewarded the few that backed her with a return of 5401 for 2 Master Halligan second choice wdn second place while B B Rices Broad A led home Night Flash Nervator Amour Joan G arid the heavily played Atlas which finished in the order named namedThe The winner had to be much the best to gain her triumph for she was away tardily and had to make up considerable ground before reaching contention but she was equal to the occasion and stuck to her task until she was on even terms with Master Halligan They finished lapped and it was only a head that separated them at the end The latter turned in an improved performance to get the place and led the field to the last few yards Night Flash was one of the chief sufferers by the bad start which was the first offcolor start by Wingfield at the meet ¬ ing ingMorocco Morocco under the colors of G W Ogle won his first purse in many months when he registered the first victory of the meeting for liis owner Royal Yeoman an Audley Farm threeyearold furnished the most opposition and got the place with J D Grants Balroma in the van of My Scoop for third thirdMy My Scoop was the chief disappointment in this when he failed to race to expectations and this completed the overthrow of the first four favorites which went down decisively decisivelyThe The winner well handled by apprentice T Swigert was content to follow the pace for a half but was so anxious to race at top speed that his rider had to take the pace making duties and sped by Royal Yeoman with ease The latter held on well and going along at an even clip maintained the place position to the end
