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BOSTON DOUBLE PAYS 58440 Erech and Breadanbutter Winning Combination at Suffolk Downs r Merry Gesture Outf inishes Rivals in Brandon BrandonHall Hall Purse Five Straight Public PublicChoices Choices Disappoint BOSTON Mass July 21 Staying off the pace during the first three furlongs but then really charging J J Watts Merry Gesture won the Brandon Hall fifth and feature race at Suffolk Downs today before about 17000 patrons patronsMerry Merry Gesture threeyearold daughter of Zacaweista reeled off the six furlongs in 111 under the handling of jockey Lucas Dupps to beat the other seven fillies and mares in this event Dupps did a neat job as he scored his second victory of the day and brought his mount into the lead in the stretch having enough edge over Mrs Emil Denemarks Dorothy Rock with A C C Stables Drift Along third thirdDUPPS DUPPS BIDES TIME TIMEIn In this contest the early pace was set by E D Shaffers Evening Shadow and the favorite Mrs J A Nix Our Crest Merry Gesture had broken in front but Dupps settled her in stride and let the other two beat each other This they did for on the turn for home when Dupps let out a wrap on Merry Gesture she came fast and passed the leaders She was in front at the eighth post with the threats now looming as Drift Along and Dorothy Rock but neither could improve enough to catch the winner at any point in the stretch stretchThus Thus for the fifth consecutive race the favorites lost on todays card a racing pro ¬ gram in which horses improved and the Daily Double of F P Haldys Erech in the first race and D Homewoods Breadanbutter in the second paid 58440 for a 2 ticket ticketThe The Daily Double was 58440 when D Homewoods Breadanbutter led from gate to wire in the six furlongs dash for threeyear olds and combined with Erech for the win ¬ ning combination Breadanbutter closed at 5 to 1 odds and had more than a length on the second choice R H Heighes Plot at the finish with Hambla Bauers The Trout third thirdLONG LONG SHOT DANGEROUS DANGEROUSBreadanbutter Breadanbutter never really had any trouble although Dona Montez almost 100 to 1 ran second most of the way was within a neck of the winner at one time but then yielded in the stretch as Plot and The Trout came up fast fastOnce Once again the favorite bit the dust as A S Pierces Buzz Me overlooked at 10 to 1 odds ran a powerful race to win the third event a five furlongs dash for twoyearolds The chestnut daughter of Wise Counsellor broke in front along with Jimmie Tom raced the latter into defeat and then had enough to withstand the late rush of Danny Sullivans Dans Folly The favorite E W Ferrys Shailleen was third being unable to improve her position at any time with Jim ¬ mie Tom eventually winding up in fourth place
