Strength Takes Lincoln Main Offering; Ten Oppose Lucky Draw in Peter Pan: Stretch Jam Mars Distance Feature; Favorite Snowfly Is Knocked Off Stride near Finish and Is Third Behind Gooseberry, Daily Racing Form, 1944-05-24

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Strength Takes Lincoln Main Offering Ten Oppose Lucky Draw in Peter Pan Stretch Jam Mars Distance Feature FeatureFavorite Favorite Snowfly Is Knocked Off Stride Near Finish and Is Third Behind Gooseberry GooseberrySTICKNEY STICKNEY 111 May 23 The Thomas Hotel Purse a claiming race featuring to ¬ days program at Hawthorne was marred by a stretch jam in which Snowfly the fa ¬ vorite was the chief sufferer As a con ¬ sequence the daughter of Ariel could be no better than third in a race which she might have won Strength who seemed mainly responsible for the last furlong in ¬ terference was the winner while Goose ¬ berry finished second secondA A field of eight competed in the mile and a sixteenth affair and Fairhaired Boy set the early pace with Valdina Marge close up Gooseberry moved up to take command on the stretch turn and in the run home Strength charged on the inside and Snow fly on the outside Nearing the end Strength came out and Snowfly was the victim when she was knocked off stride She was quickly righted by jockey Gillespie but was unable to get up in time timeAnother Another Win for Piatt Stable StableStrength Strength who races for W W Crenshaw was ridden by Otto Grohs A crowd esti ¬ mated at over 11000 viewed the program and the track was fast fastThat That Thomas Piatt has some useful two yearolds in his barn was further attested when Sugar Chest won the juvenile event which came fourth on the card Piatt sent Limestone to the post for a win earlier in the meeting and just missed with Good Wife on Monday Today Sugar Chest im ¬ pressed in coming from behind to stage a good stretch run and beat out So Sure in the closing strides It was the fifth start for the daughter of Transmute Third money went to Mideau Lastminute play developed for Lilylee a daughter of Tiger out of the former fast mare Flying Lill but Lilylee was beaten a city block The dis ¬ tance was five furlongs and A Bodiou was the winning rider


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