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Everget Gets Up For Nose Victory Nips Favored Moon Maiden After Closing With Rush; Free France Wins in Debut | ! JAMAICA. L. I.. N. Y.. April 21— Brandy- . j wine Stables Everget, patiently ridden by f | I A Kirkland. closed with a rush in the - , j I I stretch to nose out Isadore Biebers Moon t j , . Maiden in the final strides of the featured x Minerva Handicap at Jamaica today. Lazy F Ranchs Johns Dear was third in this j . ,000 test, at a mile and a sixteenth, four lengths back of the beaten favorite and a 1 similar margin before Belair Studs Thread 1 o Gold, who propped at the gate and was 3 last away. The lightly-weighted Liquid 1 Lunch completed the small field another r neck back. Everget, who had won three 8 of her five races at New Orleans this win-feer - and never been worse than second, paid i 1 j .40 and was timed in l:462s. This was a gray and dismal afternoon 1 I atmospherically and was not brightened 1i | for the 19,126 turf fans who attended by f j • the performances of two odds-on favorites, - i i In the juvenile dash which preceded the e Minerva, Bertie S.. from the same stable I I as Moon Maiden, closed at 1 to 2 and could 1 finish no better than third behind Wheat-ley - Stables Drumuir and Pamela C. Dru-muir slopped through on the rail and drew 1 . I away to score by five lengths in the sparkling - • time of :5925. | Ted Atkinson, who rode Bertie S.. was ,, ■ I also aboard Moon Maiden, who started at | ! 7 to 10. thus earning the dubious distinction - of being beaten on successive odds-on 1 | choices. Liquid Lunch Tires in Stretch Permane sent Liquid Lunch to the fore . at the break in the Minerva, evidently attempting - to steal" the race under his 102 2 pounds. He quickly piled up a three-length - lead on Johns Dear. As Everget » [ moved up on Johns Dear, Atkinson also J sent Moon Maiden into contention and it t appears that Kirkland was boxed momentarily _ as Liquid Lunch bowled along in I j front. j Entering the stretch. Liquid Lunch l chucked it and Johns Dear inherited the e lead, with Moon Maiden lapped on her. I Kirkland kept fairly close to the rail coming - into the home lane and, once straightened - away, sat down to ride with whip and 1 heel. Everget responded gamely, swiftly V passed Liquid Lunch and Johns Dear and I set sail for Moon Maiden, catching the j Bieber mare in the last stride. Louis B. Mayers Free France, a son of f Man o War — La France and thus a half f brother to Johnstown and Jacola, made a , 1 moderately auspicious debut in the sixth 1 race today, a six-furlong dash for maiden l juveniles. The highly-publicized colt, who 3 is said to "make a noise," went to the front Y at the break, was challenged by The Bar-rington " Stables Gallant Bull at the head i of the stretch and struggled on courageously when Steve Brooks used the whip from the eighth pole to the wire to win by a head. William Zieglers Bounding Home was third, a length and one-half farther back. Free France was timed in the moderate time of 1:13% and paid as the e public choice. Mayer was at Jamaica to ° see the colt make his racing debut.
