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ALAMO DOWNS NOTES Secretary Eugene Bury has arranged a very attractive card for Thursday Valley Day with the first and second events drawing limit fields while the remaining five events will be over a route of ground The Corpus Christi conditioned for three yearolds will serve as the afternoons fea ¬ ture tureSaturday Saturday will be celebrated as Mexico Day at Alamo Downs The halfholiday program will be headed by the Mexico Day Handicap with a purse of 800 for three yearolds and up which will be run over the Raymond Russell course the first race to be contested here out of the six and a half furlongs chute In addition to the han ¬ dicap the Ford V8 Purse will attract some of the best horses on the grounds Local Ford agencies plan to give 250 to the win ning owner of that race in addition to the purse and a cup cupReproach Reproach a brown twoyearold filly by Galetian and Blame and a recent winner at Alamo Downs was sold at private terms to O Normandin Trainer Johnny Zoeller acting for B J Thuring transacted the sale and H Dryden will take over the training of the youngster youngsterNyack Nyack an old performer in bygone days and still a good performer with his kind in claiming affairs recently changed hands and will be shipped here from Dallas Nyack will probably get in action here Saturday in the silks of C E Smith SmithAnnarita Annarita a recent winner here struck herself while galloping over the local course this morning and will likely be on the shelf for several days daysDespite Despite the sudden cut in prices for Wednesdays entries the entry list for Thursday program is the largest for any one day since the beginning of the meeting here April 23 Should the certificate play show an increase over last week the man agement will immediately put back the purses to their former figures If Tuesdayfs handle of 72309 is any criterion the cut will no doubt be of short duration
