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FIGHTING FOX WINS MASSACHUSETTS HANDICAP Pompoon Second Burning Star Third and Favored Challedon Fourth Woodward Star Takes Early Lead in Rich Suffolk Stake and Withstands All Challenges to Earn 49250 Showers Make Track Sloppy BOSTON Mass July 12 Belair Studs Fighting Fox which set a track record for a sprint distance at Empire last Saturday proved he was a far better horse than a sprinter when he set all of the pace and won the 50000 added Massachusetts Handicap with a net prize of 49250 this afternoon at Suffolk Downs His victory came in a hard drive with Jerry Louchheims Pompoon which was beaten a half length after suffering trouble at the threequarters post Jimmy Stout put up a faultless ride on the winner rating him along with clocklike precision staving off chal ¬ lenge after challenge The winner finished in 152 flat time that was very slow but which still was faster than the time in which Menow won last year Both horses raced over an offtrack The third horse past the judges was Burning Star from the Shandon Farm which finished finishedthree three lengths off the runnerup Challedon second best threeyearold in America and a heavy choice in the race finished fourth Heelfly which took wings and flew from the threeeighths post home was fifth at the end endNECK NECK AND NECK NECKPagliacci Pagliacci and Pompoon streaked away from the gate They were neck and neck for a moment but Fighting Fox had the lead at the clubhouse turn and he held it into the back stretch Blind Eagle chased him for a mile with Pompoon third after being shuffled back slightly as they went to the back stretch stretchAt At the threeeighths post Eccard asked Pompoon the question Pompoon came on but he could not get in front frontIn In the stretch Fighting Fox was driving hard but Pompoon behind him by half a length was driving even harder harderGAME GAME HORSES HORSESTwo Two game horses charged down the final eighth of a mile Pompoon gave his best but Fighting Fox a son of Sir Gallahad III Marguerite a full brother to the great Gallant Fox was also running the greatest race of his life Stout used the whip once at the eighth post when Pompoon surged along and he met a ready response then used it again just past the sixteenth post when it seemed certain that his mount would fail but Stout kept Fighting Fox going today and had him past the line of finish in front of a sound speedy and good horse named Pompoon PompoonBurning Burning Star was off last in the field of twelve The Shandon Farm horse did not make a run until they were in the stretch and then he made a very determined bid He was catching the leaders with every stride at the end but he had been taken too far back early Challedon was far back as usual in the early running began to gain ground at the halfmile post and was coming fast down the stretch but the race proved once again Continued on thirtyfifth page FIGHTING FOX WINS WINSMASSACHUSETTS MASSACHUSETTS HANDICAP Continued from first page that threeyearolds should not be pitted against older opposition this early in the year yearLigaroti Ligaroti the highly regarded invader from California which broke a track record in a recent workout showed nothing nothingHeelfly Heelfly was off slowly as usual made a great run in the stretch but it came too late lateSome Some 40000 fans were out for the sport The handle of the day ran to 589000 with 104950 being bet on the stake
