Alquest Odds-On Winner Of Clark at Downs Oval: Repeats Recent Ben Ali Score Over Anticlimax and Parasang, Daily Racing Form, 1944-05-01

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Alquest OddsQn Winner Of Clark at Downs Oval OvalRepeats Repeats Recent Ben Ali Score Over Anticlimax and Parasang ParasangContinued Continued from Page One Onethe the pace most of the distance and was a receding second a halflength before C U Yaegers Parasang Restless and Yar com ¬ pleted the small field fieldCoincidentally Coincidentally the order of finish among the first three was identical with that in the Ben Ali the handicapper having effected little difference in the weight arrangement from that Keeneland feature The race was run virtually the same also with Anticlimax nodding along on the lead to the curve into the homestretch as Adams had dead aim several lengths back with Alquest The Ohioan went to the Beaumont gelding with an irresistible surge on the outside straightened on the home lane and wore him down passing the eighth pole drawing off the last part of it itParasang Parasang made a brief run going to the furlong marker then hung a trifle right at the end Yar and Restless were forward factors early under sufferance Alquest rewarded his large and jubilant following at the rate of 360 for 2 while adding 4050 to earlier earnings This was his third victory of the 1944 campaign Em ¬ phasizing its worth was his top impost of 116 pounds The mile and a sixteenth was run in 145 on a fast surface The week ¬ end program was favored by excellent weather and the attendance was the larg ¬ est to this point in the Louisville spring turf season seasonActual Actual statistics on charity weeks yield to the American Red Cross could not be determined this afternoon of course but public patronage throughout the week In ¬ dicated 6 substantial contribution


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