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ANOTHER FALL MARS OPENING EVENT AT AKSARBEN TRACK TRACKNeither Neither Horse Nor Rider Suffer Injuries Bay Haven Proves Best BestOMAHA OMAHA Neb June 4 For the second straight day the first race at AkSarBeu was marred by a fall when Heather Are an outsider went down in the opening event today Fortunately for both the geld ¬ ing and his rider jockey F Weidaman he was running in the rear ranks when he fell after entering the stretch Neither horse nor injuredThe jockey was injured The event was won by the favored Bay Haven whose rider C Perkins showed keen knowledge of the heavy racing strip Per ¬ kins took his mount back at the start to guide him to the outside and finding the best going got to the front in the stretch to win handily by one length from Seths Peel while Omar Fox was third The time for the five furlongs was 108 which attests to the difficult stripApprentice condition of the racing strip Apprentice Paul Glidewell became th seventh rider to take a fall in two days whenJiewent down with Rogerine shortly after the start of the third race at Omaha today Glidewell second leading ap ¬ prentice at the meeting was taken to an Omaha hospital for observation and other riders were substituted on his remaining mounts for the afternoon Among afternoonAmong the spectators was Herbert M Woolf well known Kansas City owner Woolf whose Lawrin won a Kentucky Derby spent the afternoon renewing ac quaintances with horsemen and officials The officialsThe first jockey to graduate from the non winning ranks at Omaha this season is Rob ¬ ert Farmer a Dow City Iowa boy who piloted the initial winner of his career in riding Pargo to victory Tuesday The win ¬ ninghorse was saddled by Farmers father U R Farmer The youngster is 18 years of age ageAnother Another lad graduated from the ranks o nonwinners Tuesday when apprentice F Becker won his first race Jockey raceJockey C Perkins who was astride Bay Haven winner of todays first race wa suspended for five days for failing to keep his mount straight during the stretch run of that event It was the first suspen ¬ sion of the meeting