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THATABOY COMES RIGHT BACK FOR ANOTHER SCORE SCOREIslam Islam Offspring Whips Inshoot Half Length at Fairmount Park ParkCOLLINSVILLE COLLINSVILLE 111 June 14 Thata Boy twoyearold gelded son of Islam and Justina who shattered the track record at Fairmount Park a little more than a week ago came right back off that performance and handed Harry Murdocks Inshoot who earlier in the meeting equaled the old mark a new lacing in the four and a half furlongs fourth race raceThe The C B Gooch youngster failed to come close to his old mark of 53 but under Warren Cornay was never asked for his best as he handled Inshoot with ease to gain a half length victory victoryThe The pair dominated the running from the start to the end and their fast pace was too fast for W B Rays Paireve who fol ¬ lowed them to the final sixteenth where he weakened to be displaced by the Le Mar Stock Farm pair Masculine and Meanwhile both of whom finished heads before Paireve for the third and fourth awards Yokel In scovette and Cahokian finished in the order named In scoring his second straight tri ¬ umph ThataBoy covered the distance in 54RAIN 54 RAIN SOFTENS TRACK TRACKThreatening Threatening weather kept the crowd down However general manager D C Burnett announced there were more than 10000 fans to witness the best program of the local sea ¬ son which was headed by the Hotel Associ ¬ ation of St Louis Handicap The weather was cloudy for the first part of the pro gram Shortly after the running of the fourth race a light shower fell but it cleared up for the fifth race The rain failed to soften the track and it remained fast for the balance of the program programThe The first race resulted in an easy triumph for F C Burkets Ann Star when she took that sixfurlong event by eight lengths from Whiskora with Semlika garnering the show award The winner ridden by Eddie Burns went to the front soon after the start and after disposing of Bibi C in the opening quarter came away from Semlika when ready and Was only breezing in the final sixteenth sixteenthIn In a stirring finish Sir Midas a seven yearold son of Golden Guinea under the guidance of Bobby Montgomery earned his first puise in nearly two years when he got home winner in the second race by a neck to down Tureen Clipman the latter a mem ¬ ber of t he mutuel field and nine others at one mile The winner almost went to his knees rounding the clubhouse turn and recovering quickly he took the lead from Tureen before reaching the first quarter and held a slight advantage over the pacesetter throughout the eight furlongs Eddie Burns scored his second triumph of the day when he handled James F ONeils veteran Victor Hugo in the third race which also was at a mile Canavia was second and third went to Mammy B Burns had the gelded son of Jean Valjean in a promi ¬ nent position going down the back stretch and when Pretty Hasty and Mary Van Bur en began to tire Burns sent his mount to the front and opened up a commanding lead but Victor Hugo was tiring in the last sixteenth and just managed to cling to a half length margin over Canavia The latter was three lengths before Mammy B at the end
