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PLAYMAY WINS AGAIN Takes Early Lead at Sportsmans and Holds It Easily Grand Day Unable to Catch White brook Racer in Autumn Claiming Purse Dew Astride Winner CICERO 111 Oct 29 Before a large and enthusiastic gathering one of the biggest of the meeting and under Ideal weather and track conditions M Whitebrooks Playmay broke in front and stayed there In the Autumn Claiming Purse a run of a mile and a furlong which served as todays feature at Sportsmans Park After toying with Grand Day for about threequarters of a mile Play may drew into a good lead and held it to the end where her margin of victory was four lengths lengthsGrand Grand Day which was the favorite in an openbetting affair wearied of trying to catch the steadygoing pacemaker and wound up third Oddesas Pride moving up to take sec and place by a length Portunus finished fourth and then followed Lady Fitz and Checks the only other starters startersApprentice Apprentice Earl Dew did not have to per eevere with his mount to keep her in front After going about threequarters he roused the Whitebrook mare and she responded by opening daylight on her nearest rival From then on it was apparent she had the race at her mercy for Grand Day began to tire and Oddesas Pride was making no appreciable gain gainSECOND SECOND STRAIGHT STRAIGHTPlaymay Playmay scoring her second straight vic ¬ tory and her eighth of the year ran the dis ¬ tance in 157 and paid J9 for 2 in the mutuels mutuelsThe The Autumn Claiming Purse was offered as the headliner when the original feature the Autumn Handicap was declared off for want of sufficient entries Although the pro ¬ gram did not bring out any of the topgrade performers on the scene the racing was in ¬ teresting and wellbacked horses for the most part gave creditable accounts of them ¬ selves F Robertsons Honored Miss beaten only narrowly in her last engagement got a close 3ecision at the end of the seven furlongs of the third race Closing well under the guid ¬ ance of Albert Bodiou the fouryearold daughter of Carlaris got up to score by a neck as Little Duke ran second and Zat So third Hiss Europe the favorite was car ¬ ried extremely wide on the first turn by Zat jSo and never proved a serious factor there ¬ after while Brophy which also came in for Blanch support also failed failedBODIOU BODIOU REPEATS Merry Saxon performing under the col ¬ ors of the Lexbrook Stables carried jockey Bodiou to his second straight victory by accounting for the fourth race another con ¬ test at seven furlongs which engaged ten juveniles The daughter of Saxon raced the pacemaking Vuljest into defeat after a half mile and then held sway to the end although she had to be ridden out to stall off Patrol Scout Tureen was three lengths farther away in third place at the end with Alice May fourth Vuljest was far back at the wire The winner was the favorite Apprentice Dew rode his third winner of Conllnitrrl on tirentvfifirnth riirjfi PLAYMAY WINS AGAIN Continued from first page the afternoon when Corbet Irvins Ebony Boy got home In front in the sixth race The son of Flying Ebony took the lead after about fiveeighths and holding it completed the mile and seventy yards with three lengths to spare Honey Roll was the leader until the winner came along and then dropped back fast Second money went to Bobbrax with third going to Smiling Prince the favorite Magic Winnie came from a long way back to lead home the others
