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STAR BOARDER MAKES GOOD FOR ENTHUSIASTIC FOLLOWERS FOLLOWERSFinishes Finishes Neck Ahead of Halcyon Boy in Suffolk Downs Offering OfferingBOSTON BOSTON Mass May 14 In a hard fought finish Star Boarder from the string of Mrs Sam Orr raced to a noteworthy tri ¬ umph in the one mile Rock Port Purse stellar offering on the midweek program at Suffolk Downs DownsThe The Sweep All fiveyearold accomplished his score in a hard drive over B N Kanes Halcyon Boy and by the margin of a neck Robespierre which performs for W E John ¬ son came gamely irifthe drive to catch the tiring Liberty Franc and earn the show award awardThe The Rock Port was fashioned under al ¬ lowance conditions and brought together a field of eight of the better grade horses to race for a purse of 1400 1400It It is an incident worthy of note that the mile was covered in 139 the same time as registered for the mile features on the two previous days and once again the successful jockey was Walter L Taylor who had been astride the winners of the main offering on the first two days of the current session Liberty sessionLiberty Franc left the starting gate at a sprinting clip and soon had daylight showing over the others Halcyon Boy chased the pacemaker closest with the son of Sweep All under stout restraint as he held to third placePACE place PACE BEGINS TO QUICKEN QUICKENIt It was not until the opening five furlongs had been traversed that the pace began to quicken The Kane standard bearer moved up steadily when called upon and soon was abreast of the leader Star Boarder had matched this move and straightening out for the run to the finish the three leaders raced abreast May was the first to go to the whip and while placing Liberty Franc to a stout drive the Liberty Limited colt gave his utmost and soon began to waver Halcyon Boy was battling along gamely but Star Boarder on the outside soon moved up to show slightly in the command It was nip and tuck all allContinued Continued on thirtyfifth page STAR BOARDER MAKES GOOD FOR FOLLOWERS FOLLOWERSFinishes Finishes Neck Ahead of Halcyon Boy in Suffolk Downs Offering Eternal Bull Lowers Track M ark arkContinued Continued from first page pageduring during the stretch run with the Mrs Orr representative proving to have more left and under the incessant drive of Taylor managed to have a slight advantage at the line Halcyon Boy held on with new found gameness when placed to a drive and fought it out bitterly right to the line Robespierre loomed up on the outside and for a brief spell in the last sixteenth it seemed that he might be able to run down the two leaders but he was unable to close any appreciable amount of ground during the late stages of the journey Liberty Franc was a tiring fourth while the others had played little or no serious part in the running runningGreatly Greatly aided by a continuation of ideal weather conditions a large crowd witnessed the interesting brand of racing presented The strip was at its best as attested to by the good times turned in over the fast oval Favorites and second choices predominated predominatedESTABLISHES ESTABLISHES TRACK RECORD RECORDAllen Allen T Simmons twoyearold Eternal Bull a 5300 yearling purchase established a new track record of 53 for the four and onehalf furlongs of the fifth race Clipping twofifths of a second off Philosophers old mark the son of Bull Dog and Rose Eternal set all his own pace outdistancing his field with the ease of from two to three lengths advantage and came to the end of the dash just breezing under jockey Robert Howell with three lengths separating him from Mrs K Smarts Pacification That ByPass II filly chased the winner during the greater part of the event although being unable to threaten at any stage At the line Pacifica ¬ tion held a fourlength lead over Reynolds Bros Fly Ty A length farther back was Marshall Fields Ack Ack with Bright World completing the field fieldAn An interesting sidelight of the juvenile test is the fact that the winner Fly Ty and Ack Ack are eligible for the Miles Standish Stakes and that Eternal Bull and Fly Ty are also named for the topnotch twoyearold attraction the 15000 Mayflower Stakes StakesMaking Making his first start since racing to the runnerup position behind Albatross in the Hialeah Juvenile Championship Eternal Bull demonstrated that he will be a twoyearold to be reckoned with in the impending juve ¬ nile endowed events Installed oddson fa ¬ vorite the full brother to Bull Brier paid 320 for 2 and brought about a minus show pool of 72680 in the mutuels
