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TAKEN BY MARGIN OF NECK Drives to Closely Achieved Victory in Featured Riverside Purse. Outlasts Galadore and Victorious Ann Under Well Judged and Vigorously Bidden Race by Earl Maloney. PAWTUCKET, R. I., Nov. 14. James Emerys Taken, ridden by Earl Maloney, drove to victory by a neck in the six furlongs Riverside Purse, that featured a sunny and windy day of sport at Narragansett Park. At the end the Stimulus three-year-old was a neck in front of Sanford Stud Farms Galadore, with Fanfare Farms Victorious Ann, odds-on choice, able to do no better than third, a length off the runner-up. Marson, which made the pace to the stretch, finished fourth. Queerplay ran to the outside rail in the back stretch and was taken up by Decamillas. Maxson and Victorious Ann battled it out for a quarter mile, with Taken rated fourth on the outside. The winner began to move on Marson near the far turn in determined fashion. He collared the leader as they made the turn, passed him at the head of the stretch. He drew off in the run from the eighth post to the sixteenth marker, but in the final stages he was forced to meet a strong challenge from Galadore, which was sweeping up on the extreme outside. Maloney hand rode smartly in the final yards and saved the race when it looked as if his mount would be caught. Galadore was far back early, but finished fast. The winner finished in 1:11, over a track that was off early in the aftrenoon, but which was fast for the feature. The entire proceeds of the days racing the first of an extension period of six days went to charity. Bold General staged a great stretch rush to carry Ken McCombs to his second straight victory in the third event. He got up in the final jumps of the race to beat Miss Pecan by a nose. Lady Sara, out in all the pace, was third, a length back of the battling lead- j ers and a length and a half in front of My Blonde. The score was the second in a row for Bold General. Bahamas and Felwyn fought the early pace battle. They had burned each other out by the far turn, where Miss Pecan went to the lead. Bold General, moving from eighth place, began to fly up on the outside at this stage and continued to take wing down the stretch, getting up just in time.
