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BRIGHT WINS THRILLER Crete Handicap at Sportsmans Park Provides Exciting Sport Stewards Fine Trainer Gaal After AfterRace Race for Changing Equipment EquipmentWithout Without Their Permission CICERO 111 Oct 21 The Crete Handi ¬ cap a dash of five furlongs for twoyear olds featured todays program at Sports j mans Park and it produced probably the most thrilling finish of the meeting thus far The winner was Butsey Hernandez Bright with Jay D Bane second Macwhislc third and Speedy Booger fourth and hardly more than a half length separated the four as they charged past the judges Noses separated the first three while Speedy Booger which was made an oddson choice in the betting was only a half length away at the wire wireBright Bright carrying T P Martin to his sec ¬ ond victory of the day began to gain on the leaders after threeeighths and coming to the outside for the run through the stretch got up in the last stride He paid a little more than 9 to 1 in the mutucls mutuclsDOMINATE DOMINATE RACE RACESpeedy Speedy Booger Maewhisk and Leonards Son dominated the running for about three furlongs and then the latter began to drop back The other two fought on desperately the rest of the way but in the last eighth Bright made his run on the outside and Jay D Bane rushed up next to the rail to earn their shares of the purse Within a few yards of the wire Speedy Booger was in close quarters or else might even have been closer to the first three as they crossed the line of finish finishSpeedy Speedy Booger was top weight in the race under 120 pounds Bright shouldering but 110 The latter ran the distance in the creditable time of 102 on a fast track trackAfter After the race the stewards announced that trainer Al Gaal had changed the equip ¬ ment on Bright without their permission and had been fined 25 The youngster per ¬ formed today without blinkers blinkersThe The race and the rest of the program was witnessed by a large crowd attracted as much by the good program as by the pleasant weather weatherJockey Jockey Martin rode his third winner in the sixth race in which the Blue Ridge Farms Witan turned back seven others over six and a half furlongs After battling with Miss Europe for the lead for fiveeighths of a mile Witan drew into the clear and com ¬ pleted the distance with an advantage of a length and a half halfJ J F Neel is taking Russell Jewetts Good Actor Forced Landing Sir Quest Thumbs Down Spartan Lady and Kaimask to New Orleans next week weekJockey Jockey V Gruber arrived here from New York and took out a license to ride
