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BHI FARNSWORTH BEST Itts New Track Record in Winning Decoration Day Handicap Ihtns Six Furlongs in 110 Suffolk Downs Host to Large LargeHoliday Holiday Crowd BOSTON Mass May 31 Miss Marion Cassidys Bill Farnsworth showed the way to the best field a New England stake has drawn this season as he won the Decoration Day Handicap before a tremendous gather Ing of 52000 fans at Suffolk Downs this afternoon The winner finished out the six furlongs journey in new track record time pf 110 over a track that a strong sun had baked hard In the beaten field in next to last place was the former record holder Lady Higloss HiglossBill Bill Farnsworth shouldered 114 pounds and won by two lengths over the lightly weighted Rough Time a threeyearold geld ¬ ing from the stable of J Yancey Christmas which turned in a surprisingly good race to take the place a length and a half in ad ¬ vance of Greentree Stables Chicolarado Mrs C E Allens Bacon was fourth in the fifcld of eleven which accepted after a dozen withdrawals were made from the overnight field The winner showed 1580 on the tote bbard and earned 4350 4350The The day was the brightest and also the hottest of the season several persons being prostrated from the heat during the course 61 the afternoon The huge gathering had wagered 465545 through the feature featureCHALLENGES CHALLENGES LEADER Rough Time broke on top and Rudie was also out of his number one stall winging However the latter went back rapidly and iSill Farnsworth drove up to challenge the leader before they had travelled a sixteenth t a mile It was Rough Time and Bill JBlarnsworth necks apart all down the back gtretch and as they sped around the turn tfie pair widened out on all rivals Rough ime was driving hard and leading Bill Farnsworth by a head as they straightened out for the final drive driveGuy Guy Fawkes was third as they entered the straightaway but he had broken from the outside and much was taken out of him in getting to the leaders As he attempted to Irive to the pair he was hemmed in in tight quarters on the rail Rough Time and Bill Farnsworth fought it out head and head to the sixteenth pole There Bill Farnsworth began to draw off slightly gaining inch by inch until his margin at the wire was two lengths lengthsChicolorado Chicolorado was far in the ruck at the head of the stretch but in the final eighth the pink silks of the Greentree Stable closed fast on the outside and Chicolorado caught all but the first two horses horsesMucho Mucho Gusto was under top weight of 124 pounds and finished fifth Lady Higloss ap ¬ peared to have something the best of the handicap of 116 pounds but failed miserably galloping around in ninth place all the way
