Askmenow Victress in Pimlico Oaks; Marion Collins Beats Quizzle in Drive: Headley Homebred Filly Leads Too Timely by Length at Wire; Last Years Selima Winner Displays Good Route Form In Second Start of Season, Daily Racing Form, 1943-05-06

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Askmenow Victress in Pimlico Oaks Marion Collins Beats Ouizzle in Drive Headley Homebred Filly Leads Too Timely by Length at Wire Last Year s Selima Winner Displays Good Route Form In Second Start of Season SeasonPIMLICO PIMLICO Md May 5 Askmenow heroine of last autumns coveted Selima crossed the Blue Ridge from her native Kentucky to capture this afternoons Pim ¬ lico Oaks the Preakness for fillies before a large and excited assemblage of Mary ¬ land ra9egoers At the bitter end pf this 10000 added run of a mile and a six teenth Hal Price Headleys looseeared homebred was a length before King Ranchs Too Timely the runnerup with jockey Carroll Bierman urging her to the utmost George Wideners Pomrose fin ¬ ished a steady third another two lengths back and a neck in advance of the winners unsung stable companion Who Me MeA A representative field of 10 of the clev ¬ erest aspiring turf queens in America answered the bugle for this 21st running of the Pimlico version of the Oaks and its result was highly gratifying to those who backed the Beaumont duo into favoritism So absurdly simple did this first important spring fixture for threeyearold fillies ap ¬ pear to many of the crowds form students indeed that Askmenow paid just 660 for 2 while adding 10225 to the sum amassed in earlier successes successesEach Each of the field carried 121 pounds and the successful daughter of Menow and the good mare Conclave was timed in 145 with the fractions 23J5 AjVs 112 and 139 The winners final time was just threefifths of a second off Sketchbooks stakes record recordAn An enthusiastic gathering of more than 10000 of the Free States racegoers wended their way put to the old Belvedere Avenue park to witness this renewal of the Oaks OaksHeadley Headley Accepts Trophy TrophyThe The attendance incidentally included ownerbreeder Headley of the winner who appeared in the winners enclosure follow ¬ ing the stake to accept the trophy from Plmlicos president Harry Parr m The result of the days stellar stellarN N offering was much more widely acclaimed by the way than the finishes in most of the seven supporting events many of which devel ¬ oped shocking upsets upsetsThe The 10 in the featured attraction gave starter Milton a few pretty hectic moments during which Samaritan and Gloriana were especially rank and broke out of their stalls stallsAt At the break Gloriana went to the front With Joe Renick tiptoing her as if it were a brush for quarter horses opening up three lengths rounding the clubhouse turn Royal Flush La Reigh and Askmenow were wereContinued Continued on Page ThirtyOne Askmenow Best In Pimlico Oaks OaksHeadley Headley Miss Has Length Margin Over Too Timely In 10000 Filly Feature FeatureContinued Continued from Page One Onein in closest pursuit the lastnamed having broken from the extreme outside outsideEntering Entering the back Glpriana was chal ¬ lenged by Royal Flush and promptly went in reverse gear Royal Plush then moved into a lead of some two lengths also set ¬ ting the pace under sufferance for it was obvious Bierman was delaying his run runOn On the curve for home it began to be a horse race Too Timely a stretchrunner from way back so to speak was moving alongside Askmenow and the latter bent to her task in all earnestness about the quar ¬ ter post She went to Royal Plush deter ¬ minedly arid found that filly a soft touch touchToo Too Timely continued closing through the stretch and Bierman drew his whip and flailed away at the Headley mare who responded with renewed energy and held the King Ranch representative safe by a length lengthPomrose Pomrose Breaks Slowly Pomrose broke very slowly under Mc Creary took the overland making her move and finished in the middle of the strip with a steady surge that carried her into the third place She was too far off the first two to be really threatening however howeverLa La Reigh was perfectly placed to the las bend where she began to tire and fell out of it Gloriana ran like a cheap filly stopping frequently She finished last al ¬ most dead last it appeared 25 lengths behind Samaritan the next to last to fin ¬ ish ishMrs Mrs Ray Feinbergs Firebroom won the fifth race named the Walbrook Handicap At the end of that mile and seventy yards which he covered in 143 just threefifths of a second off the track record he was a neck before Mrs E H Augustus Trelawny Hal Price Headleys Equinox was third six lengths behind followed by Nellie Mowlee Abbe Pierre and Ksar of Audley in that order orderBomar Bomar Stables Love Pact a daughter of Ladysman from Sweet Desire who won the Pimlico Oaks for the Detroitowned4 estab ¬ lishment in 1937 was surprise winner of the fourth race Mrs A J Abels Gramps Image was second a head behind and C J Raffos Cee Raf was third a neck farther back backMaking Making the first start of her career a successful one the juvenile circled her field to charge down on Gramps Image in the stretch and overhaul that filly at the finish line Given scant consideration over the more educated Gramps Image Love Pact was responsible for an 8640 for 2 winning mutuel


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