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FAST TEXAS DERBY WORKS Case Ace and Heaping Reward Gallop Three-Quarters at Arlington Downs in 1:13. ARLINGTON, Texas, April 6. Taking advantage of the fast racing strip and the nearness of the Texas Derby, several eligibles for that important 5,000 added classic, which will bo run at Arlington Downs, Saturday, April 17, were seen in short but useful trials. It remained for Reaping Reward and Case Ace, Milky Way Farms two leading eligibles, to turn in the most sparkling trials, when they went six furlongs in 1:13, breezing. Starting their task at the three-quarters post and under strong restraint throughout, they ran the quarter in :23, and the half mile in :475i. Mars Shield and Military, two other eligibles from the same barn, went the same distance in 1:15, handily. Military was equipped with blinkers, and they were timed the quarter in :23, the half mile in :48. Nations Taste and Dogaway went five furlongs in 1:02, handily, after running the quarter in :24, and the half mile in :48. W. E. Snyders Dead Calm, which finished second to Grey Count in the Louisiana Derby,- breezed seven furlongs in 1:29. He was timed the quarter in :24, the half mile in :i9, and the three-quarters in 1:16. Case Ace and Dogaway were named for Saturdays Blue Bonnet Handicap, and that six furlongs test probably will be their 1937 local debut.
