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GALLAGHER COLORS IN FRONT Star Fire Proves Best in New Eng ¬ land States Handicap Former Butler Bacer Repays Part of Pur ¬ chase Price Peters on Two Bock Ingham Winners SALEM N H June 27 Star Fire ac ¬ quired from the dispersal sale of the James Butler estate by W H Gallagher repaid 1990 of her purchase price the winners portion of the 2500 added to the New Eng ¬ land States Claiming Handicap This was the feature attraction on todays card at Rockingham Park and had its decision over the one mile and a sixteenth distance distanceMore More than two lengths back of the winner Round Table coupled with Monel as the S W Labrot entry and favorite in the wagering finished in second place Mrs A A Baronis Bamboula took third defeat ¬ ing Night Sprite for that part of the award awardBamboula Bamboula beat the others out of the stalls but soon was outrun by Monel as the latter took the lead in the run to the first turn Bamboula had the others headed and Round Table was next just showing the way to the Gallagher mare mareThis This was the order until approaching the five furlongs post with Haines on the in side with Star Fire and sailing along clear j before travelling the next furlong Monel i when overtaken began dropping back and it was the Baroni mare that went closest to the ultimate winner winnerHaines Haines steadied the Vulcain mare along and increasing her lead approaching the stretch was never threatened to the end endBamboula Bamboula had given her best in an effort to gain on the leader and fell easy prey to the closing challenge Round Table offered and which netted the Sir Gallahad III colt second place in the last sixteenth Monel had quit so badly that when the finish line was reached she was last of the lot and appeared lame parading back to the judges stand standBy By far the largest crowd of the current season was on hand The weather though holding threats of rain was ideal and a splendid program was arranged for the en ¬ tertainment gatheringOne of the large gathering One of the prettiest contests of the meet ¬ ing occurred in the sixth when Newgro Hernando and Gallic raced heads apart for the first six furlongs In the stretch New ¬ gro shook off his two persistent rivals and Continued on twentysixth page GALLAGHER COLORS IN FRONT Continued from first page lasted to stall off the closing challenge of Grand Hopes HopesThe The latter after racing restrained early made his effort in the last quarter and just failed to get up in time Gallic lasted to take third and Hernando was well back in fourth place placeThe The New York Press Handicap at six furlongs was the secondary feature on the program providing the opportunity for the C V Whitney string to chalk up their initial triumph of the meeting when Jabot scored Dark Hope from the stable of J W Y Martin finished second and third place fell to the lot of J D Mikels Burning Up UpBlack Black Hand winner of the Roseben Hand ¬ icap on opening day took the lead at the start but under pressure was only a le to Shake off Khamseeu which was pressing him closely Robertson was biding his time back in third place and had the Sickle filly under steadying restraint and appeared ready to move up at any time After the first half mile had been covered the early leaders began showing signs of tiring and Jabot was sent to the lead Baker on Dark Hope had also made his move and raced into second place straightening out in the stretch Jabot responded with speed and reached the end well clear of the Martin hope while Burning Up also managed to overtake the tired early leaders to take the show position
