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THOMASVILLE SPARKLES Gains Considerable Prestige in An ¬ nexing Algonquin Purse Runs Mile in 13V to Beat Indian IndianSalute Salute and Gallant Mac Latter LatterProving Proving Big Disappointment ARLINGTON HEIGHTS 111 June 28 Hal Price Headleys gelded Thomasville took on considerable prestige as a threeyear old of stake class and the Audley Farms Gallant Mac left most of his reputation be ¬ hind this afternoon when a field that in ¬ cluded four of the lesser eligibles for the 35000 Arlington Classic met here in the Algonquin Purse at a mile which served as the feature before the largest crowd of the meeting meetingThomasville Thomasville won the race finishing the mile in 137 after having loafed along in second place during the first half of it A length and a half behind was Indian Sa ¬ lute the second staying threeyearold of William Sachsenmaiers stable Three lengths behind him a thoroughly beaten third was Gallant Mac He had been backed to equal favoritism with the winner led to the stretch in making a slow pace had no excuse what ¬ ever and was simply not there when Thom ¬ asville and Indian Salute collared him three sixteenths from the finish The Brookmeade Stables Sleuth was fourth and the Calumet Farms Sir Ten fifth fifthGallant Gallant Mac was away slowly on the in ¬ side but long before the field of five had left the chute he fortunately got through next to the inside rail and spurted to the front He was restrained through the back stretch but Thomasville was under a much stronger pull in second place as they ran the quarter in 24 and the half in 47 Rounding the far turn Steffen called on Thomasville and he began to move up pass ¬ ing Gallant Mac early in the stretch Once passed Gallant Mac made little resistance to Indian Salutes challenge and the latter passed him easily before the final furlong furlongTRIPLE TRIPLE FOB EARL STEFFEN STEFFENThe The victory marked a triple for jockey Earl Steffen who rode Miss Boss Pairby pair and Thomasville It was also a double for the Headley silks Miss Boss having raced in the Kentuckians colors colorsMrs Mrs John Hertz fiveyearold Pairbypair racing at other tracks was often beaten but when he came back to his favorite race course this afternoon Pairbypairs last vic ¬ tory was at the last Arlington meeting there was no beating him Coming from close behind the fast early pace Pairbypair engaged in a bitter duel with Joseph E Wideners Chance Line from the head of the stretch to win the Maple Grove Purse by a head the secondary feature W R Coes improving Black Queen was beaten a length and a half halfTrey Trey set a pace that saw him at the quar ¬ ter in 23 and the half in 46 but Pair ¬ bypair was right with him and moved up to take a short lead entering the stretch Arcaro drove Chance Line up outside him and to the lead and the two fought a bitter duel from there to the finish with Pairby ¬ pair game enough to hold his slight advan ¬ tage The time of 111 was the fastest six furlongs of the meeting meetingBlack Black Queen worked out an extra quarter after the race for a mile in 140 The Brentwood Stables Navanod also preparing for Wednesdays Stars and Stripes Handi ¬ cap worked out a mile in 141 141LADY LADY LOUELLA HANDILY HANDILYOff Off in the lead and drawing clear again after having been mildly challenged in the early stretch the Glen Errol Stables two yearold filly Lady Louella proved a handy winner by two lengths of the first race a five furlongs dash in which eight juveniles came together She beat the favorite Mose Lowensteins My Blonde with Wood Axtons Chief Evergreen another length and a half back for third in a race run in 100 over a fast track trackThe The start was delayed ten minutes when K E Hitts Iwintoo unseated jockey Wes trope at the starting gate an assistant start ¬ er pulled her bridle off trying to control her and she ran away a half mile Lady Louella showed in front at once at the start with My Blonde moving up to challenge early in the stretch The winner quickly drew away and was not menaced thereafter thereafterHal Hal Price Headley turned up with a sur ¬ prise winner in the five and onehalf fur ¬ longs second race when his maiden filly Miss Boss led all the way to conquer eleven other twoyearolds by a half length She Continued on tiventysixth page THOMASYILLE SPARKLES Continued from first page was forced to the limit to stand off two challenges during the early running and then jockey Earl Steffen had to go to a drive through the late stretch to hold the winner safe from the determined bid of T C Wordens Playmore the favorite which raced to second place Wood Axtons Chi casha racing on the inside was another length and a half back for third thirdThe The Audley Farm Stable won a purse but lost a fit horse in the third race when the Running W Ranch took the threeyearold Trahison after the latter had won by a length and a half from a band of nine others in the six furlongs sprint Although he had not started in almost eighteen months Tra ¬ hison indicated that he is likely to win many races from horses of the class he op ¬ posed today He was forced to work his way up in the middle of the field and then after passing the pacemaking Aliens was forced to stand a drive to stand off the late challenge which Belle Grier made on the outside to be second Homer L was third in a race run in 112 112Although Although well backed in the regular bet ¬ ting Trahison paid 22944 coupled with the second race winner Miss Boss in the Daily Double DoubleEddie Eddie Arcaro whose riding seems to im ¬ prove daily rode his second winner of the afternoon when he brought H C McCon nells Theorem from far back of the early leaders to score by a length and a half in the fourth race Despite the margin the threeyearold held at the end of a mile run in 139 Theorem had to be ridden out to hold Mrs Hertz Wild Reigh through the Audley Farms Colonist another slow be ¬ ginner that had to come through the field of eight in the final quarter was third four lengths further back
