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DOMINANT MISS WINS AGAIN » Juvenile Fillies in Limelight at Churchill Downs Course. ♦ Our Grief Defeats Band of Cheaper Platers In Second Race and Pays Long Price. » .... LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 20.— The well balanced program that made up the offering at Churchill Downs today had its principal race in the Snap Dragon Purse, for juvenile fillies, and it provided an opportunity for a meeting of some of the better ones of that division over five furlongs. Eight went to the post, and the race, while at all times interesting, resulted in a rather easily attained victory for Dominant Miss, a bay filly by Dominant from Sans Tache, racing for Thomas C. Piatt, master of Brookdale Farm. This success, the second in successive starts, was scored in the good time of 1:01 and by a length and one-half over the Audley Farms St. Jessica. Third, only a nose back, was L. C. Youngs Helen Bab, and Sue Terry took fourth money over Nituma, Girl Graduate, Little Connelly and La Verbena. After taking a little time to find her best stride, the winner, responding to the light urging of her rider, Morris Rose, sprinted to the front on the stretch turn and, while racing wide thereafter, held her position safe. Moving up fast on the inside on the stretch turn, St. Jessica was only two lengths back of the fast-running winner an eighth out, but try as she did, she failed to seriously threaten the leader and in the final stride all but lost second to the fast-finishing Helen Bab. The latter and Girl Graduate suffered bad racing luck.
