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SPECIAL AGENT SHOWS SPEED Dazzles Work-Watchers With Three-Quarters in 1:13 at Tanforan Indian Brooms Work. SAN BRUNO, Calif., April 8. Special Agent, which will race coupled with Indian Broom in the Exposition Handicap, dazzled work-watchers with his speed Thursday morning when he travelled six furlongs in 1:13. Many of the stars entered in Saturdays big race were on the track but Special Agent, a speed horse, outshone them all with his brilliant gallop. Special Agent, which set the pace well into the stretch in the Santa Anita Handicap, proved that he will be strictly the one to beat in the mile and a sixteenth race. He had a lot left at the end, according to exercise boy R. Harrington. Indian Broom was also on the track but was not asked for speed. The mile and an eighth worlds record holder went a slow three-quarters in 1:15. Seabiscuit, favorite for the Exposition, went a handy half mile in :49, and dockers declared that it was an impressive move, if not a fast one. Seabiscuit is expected to be a certain starter Saturday if the track remains fast, his owner seeming to be satisfied with the weights.
