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FAIR STEIN AND BOB MERRITT Prove Successful Combination in the Featured New England Handicap Betting on Race Is Comparatively Light Equerry First In Dedham Claiming Purse Secondary Attraction PAWTUCKET R I Oct 26 The New England Handicap for fillies and mares threeyearolds and upward featured the local program at Narragansett Park this afternoon The event attracted only four to the post to test strides over the one mile and a furlong furlongThe The winners share 3870 was taken down in rather hollow fashion by H Phillips five yearold Axenstein mare Fair Stein She was top weight in the handicap giving away chunks to all her rivals She was ridden by Bobby Merrill and ridden well wellMonaBell MonaBell from Ihe Cosgrave Stable went out to make all the pace She led the field right up to Ihe sixleenlh marker where Fair Stein was loosened from double wraps and allowed to gallop to Ihe fronl drawing away al will willMdna Mdna Bell was Iwo lenglhs in front of Harp Weaver a recent graduate from Iho plaler maiden division Play Dis the only other starter took down 250 to gallop along back of her field fieldThe The event originally closed with seventeen nominations including the sensational Hand ¬ cuff but she failed to show for the engage ¬ ment mentSMALL SMALL MUTUEL PAYOFF PAYOFFThe The Fair Stein victory resulted in Ihe smallest muluel payoff during Ihe meeting thus far the mare going to the post at 9 to 20 20The The altendance held up well and the weather conditions were perfect for the afternoon afternoonBelling Belling on the New England was compara ¬ tively light there being no show pool but other events atlracled a large play playThe The Dedham Claiming Purse which im medialely preceded the New England Hand l icap on the program resulted in another I fronlrunner leading all the way H R Dulany Jrs threeyearold Prince of Wales gelding Equerry with Sammy Williams in the saddle took the lead going into the club ¬ house turn and was in front every slep of Ihe remaining dislance At the finivh Ihe favorile Bob C from Ihe Fanfare Farms I was a lenglh and a half in back of the win ¬ ner and two lengths in front of C H Trot ¬ ters Historic Era The winner was well supported in Ihe event reluming less than 5 to 1 afler compleling Ihe distance in 145 My Surprise closed extremely fast to win I the opening six furlongs race by half a I lenglh over Golden Fale Vote Boy which 1 got lo the lead on the far turn and looked a I certain winner as they made the turn for I home wound up third two lengths off Ihe I runnerup showing his usual quilling tend encies High Pool finished fourth Golden Fate set the early pace with Vole Boy lak ing Ihe van at the far lurn and gaining on lhat turn Golden Fate drove up again lo show in fronl at the eighlh post but My Surprise had begun to overhaul the lead ¬ ers by Ihis stage of the journey took the van at Ihe fifty yard ground and won drawing I off The time was 113 113NASHS NASHS WELLJUDGED RIDE RIDECalumet Calumet Farms Mugal under a well judged ride from Ronnie Nash led the way in the Ihreequarters event that was second on the program Al the end the Hadagal juvenile was a head clear of Sedate from the Three Cousins Stock Farm which was coupled in Ihe belling wilh Hail America Mrs W P Slewarts Cream Cheese finished third two lengths off Ihe runnerup and a lenglh in advance of Hail America The race was run in 114 flat flatSedate Sedate set the early pace with Mugal rated a lenglh off her unlil Ihe field was well past Ihe eighlh post Approaching the sixteenlh marker Nash began lo ride hard on Ihe winner He look Ihe lead in Ihe final f ifly yards and under slrong handling Mugal slaved off her persislent rival
