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SHIFT IN WEIGHT BIG HELP Sun Alexandria Makes Amends for Recent Defeat at Laurel Five Attracted by Catoctin Purse. LAUREL, Md., Oct. 6. Favored by a thirteen-pound shift in weights after his race here Monday, Willis Sharpe Kilmer?s dark .. bay colt, Sun Alexandria, benefited by the drop in poundage and under a nicely-judged ride by jockey Lucas Dupps, made amends for his recent defeat to account for"the mile and one-sixteenth of the Catoctin, an allowance contest that was the fifth and principal one on a gloomy card of racing at Laurel Park today. Ruling as the choice and the light weight of the five starters under .colors the score of the Kilmerite, that was third of the year, came in a thrilling finish when he got up in the closing strides to beat Mrs. Colin MacLeods Pernie. Third was captured by Mrs. R. H. Heighes Rehearsal, the lone member of the female sex in the contest. Upstream, from the Mrs. Emil Denemark barn, easily took the measure of Brown Moth, which completed the small field. SHOWERS DULL TRACK. With showers obtaining from the start of the program and the track dulled by the rain, the afternoon was anything but pleasant for a rather good gathering that braved the disagreeable weather. The Catoctin, fashioned for three-year-olds exclusively, found the five starters in the stalls for a minute before the bell rang and there was a scramble immediately between Pernie, Rehearsal and Sun Alexandria going to the first elbow and it saw Rehearsal pinched back as Brown Moth was sent up fast on the outside to join Pernie in setting the pace. These two went down the far side of the track lapped while Sun Alexandria was wisely rated off the pace when Dupps saw that his mount could not cope with the speed of the first two. His judgment proved sound as Sun Alexandria went up on the inside of Brown Moth to reach the heels of Pernie at the stretch turn then in a bristling finish wore the Mrs. MacLeod colt down in the stretch drive to poke his nQse down right on the line. It was a bitter argument between the fighting pair and it carried them out a half dozen lengths before Rehearsal, which maintained a daylight lead over Upstream.
