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r-- - f REAPING REWARD IN MILE AND AN EIGHTH WORKOUT ARLINGTON, Texas, April 9. In another step towards his engagement in the 5,000 added Texas Derby, which will be run at Arlington Downs, Saturday, April 17, Mrs. Ethel V. Mars Reaping Reward, which is .second choice in winter book quotations on the Kentucky Derby negotiated nine furlongs over a fast track at Arlington Downs this morning in 1:54. Under the direction of trainer Robert Mc-Garvey and handled by L. Malear, his regular exercise boy, the son ofSickle had the filly Mars Shield as a companion and she went head and head with her throughout The daughter of Diavolo, which is eligible to the local fixture, Prcakness Stakes, Kentucky Oaks and other three-year-old features, was ridden by Alfred Robertson. The pair began their tasks at the sixteenth post and ran back to the stand. Running along under a snug hold they went the quarter in :24, the half mile in :49, the three-quarters in 1:14, and the mile in 1:41. Reaping Rewards effort was by far the best move ever recorded by any Texas Derby eligible which has not enjoyed winter racing. Mara Shield was successful in two of her four starts during the Santa Anita meeting. Nations Taste and Military, two other classy three-year-olds in the powerful Milky Way Farm stable, breezed five-eighths in 1:03.
