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Abrasion Annexes First 1943 Purse Prevails by Almost Length As Albatross and Kay-Diane Weaken in Final Sixteenth AQUEDUCT, L. I., N. Y., June 25.— Abrasion, a popular member of Marylands sprint brigade, flaunted the sky-blue banner of J. W. Y. Martin to an exciting triumph this afternoon at Aqueduct in the six furlongs of a high-grade claimer which was among the better offerings on an unpretentious Friday card. Ted Atkinson had the mount on this six-year-old Canter gelding, who shouldered top weight of 122 pounds. He caught Havahomes Albatross and W-L Ranchs Kay-Diane weakening after a furious speed battle to the sixteenth pole and won by the better part of a length. Albatross after momentarily yielding a slight lead to Kay-Diane on the turn, wrested the advantage again midway of the stretch run but then was hanging the final yards as he finished second, a length and a half before the W-L Ranchs mare. Seven appeared for this untitled affair with the customers manifesting a lack of certainty whether Seamanlike or Kay-Diane should be the favorite. Seamanlike failed to raise a gallop a* a slight choice. Abrasion was timed in a brisk 1:12% and paid his delighted backers 0.80 for . It was his initial victory in a light 1943 campaign. Atkinson Cracks Down Abrasion was allowed to lag several discreet lengths off the pace due that was being fashioned by Albatross and Kay-Diane in the days best sprint. Atkinson brought him outside the pair straightening for the run through the home lane and cracked down at the furlong pole overhauling Albatross the last tense yards and moving away at the line. Albatross rarely makes two runs in a single race and it was rather surprising to see I him regain the lead from Kay-Diane after she had once headed him. The effort took its natural toll, however when Abrasion moved. Only for a display of some early j lick by Joe Burger and Spare Man, the first . three completely dominated the race. Evlanoff Stables Blenson, carrying 124 pounds and strongly urged from flagfall to finish by Warren Mehrtens, beat the fav-| ored Sun Jesting a length and a half for i the major award in the six furlongs Rose Cross Purse. The runner-up enjoyed a pull in the weights but could only be second, half a length in advance of The Sultan, who cut the corner and finished third. Thirteen performed with Blenson, coin-cidentally, paying 3.20 and hanging out l:13»/5. Stymie is something of a "throat-latch-er", it appears. He was second for the fifth consecutive time in the five and a half furlongs of the War Bonds, when the front -running Sweeping Time, representing the one-man sartorial revolution J. P. Smith, beat him a neck in 1 :0625. Five ,000 juveniles started with Stymie a stanchly backed choice and the winner returning 0. Shamokin was a distant third in what looked a two-horse race. Broohs rode Sweeping Time.
