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Galactic Wins Pimlico Nursery Stakes Puts On Thrilling Charge in Stretch StretchDefeats Defeats Elray and Favored Sir Drake in Spirited Move Under Jockey George Woolf WoolfPIMLICO PIMLICO Md May 7 Jockey George Woolf modernday counterpart of Snap ¬ per Garrison and Mrs Ethel duPont Weirs leggy juvenile Galactic who is des ¬ tined for steeplechasing gave a large Preakness eve crowd a thrill here this afternoon as they charged from somewhere out on the boulevard to win a hair breath victory in the 35th running of the Pimlico Nursery Stakes StakesThis This 2500 added spring feature of four and a half furlongs produced a spirited finish among half the field Galactics margin before E K Bryspns Elray the jpacemaking runnerup was a mere neck while Allen Simmons top heavy choice Sir Drake was only a halflength away in third place and Cramps Image another head back in finishing fourth in a field of eight eightThis This was the second purse in as many starts for Mrs Weirs tall bay Milkman gelding and he appears a distinct bargain at 2700 as a yearling Although this Del awarian probably will be converted into a chaser when he comes of age he may mean while distinguish himself on the flat and right now is regarded as a formidable candidate for Belmont Parks Juvenile JuvenileThe The Nursery yielded a net of 3010 in ¬ cidentally while Galactics delighted back ¬ ers went around to the cashiers windows and collected 1020 for 2 He was tele timed in 54 with a first half in 48y5 which incidentally was a fifthsecond off the time dockers caught Count Fleet eas ¬ ing up the same distance in his Preakness pipeopener here today if that is of anv in ¬ terest r rWoolf Woolf Steals the Show ShowThe The nexttofinal days attendance was an excellent one but the sport was once again more noteworthy for its exciting fin ¬ ishes than formful results Galactic beat one of the afternoons staunch favorites when he ran over Sir Drake incidentally Of this stake it may accurately be said nerveless George Woolf stole the show for he generally rides twoyearolds as he does distance races and made no serious effort with Galactic jearly then came storming down the outside in spectacular fashion in the run past the bedlam in the stands standsGalactic Galactic broke right with his field and in close quarters with Woolf managing to get in one sting of his whip in a futile effort to keep up with trappier colts in the skirm ¬ ish for position When obviously at a dis ¬ advantage in this scramble Woolf allowed him to settle on stride and worked his way free of trouble to await the stretch run runIn In the pellmell dash to the turn Elray displayed the most zip and opened up a length and a half on Victory Blue and Sir Drake Elray continued slightly in front of this pair passing the quarterpole near the head of the home lane 3y then Victory Blue had quite enough and began to fall back surrendering second place to Sir Drake DrakeSir Sir Drake went at Elray determinedly through the stretch run but both began tiring in the final furlong At this junc ture Woolf had Galactic bowling down the outside while the Marylandbred Cramps Image had found a hole along the rail railThe The four reached the stand lapped with Galactic thrusting his neck before Elray in the very last stride and the latter in turn winning his private feud with Sir Drake Gramps Image was hanging ever so slightly down on the rail as he finished fourth
