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Mighty Story in Impressive Triumph Dimout Scores Again at Downs Has ThreeLength Margin Over Thor ThorShagrin Shagrin Campaigner Finds Muddy Strip to His Liking Monte Parke Saddles Double DoubleCHURCHILL CHURCHILL DOWNS Louisville Ky May 15 Darby Dimout a fiveyearold son of Flares and Sun Lily carried Milton Shagrins silks to an impressive victory here today in the Finalist Purse one of the bet ¬ ter offerings on an ordinary card Finding the muddy going to his advantage Darby Dimout responded to a good hand ride through the stretch by Ferril Zufelt reach ¬ ing the finish of the one mile and onesix ¬ teenth test three lengths in advance of J G Browns Thor second by a head margin over Silver Barr Stables Santa Glaus GlausOnly Only six started in the Finalist Jess Trents Castleman H Atkins Miss Fluff and Brown Hotel Stables Real Short fol ¬ lowing the placed horses to the wire in that order orderScurlock Scurlock Saddle Star StarJockey Jockey Don Scurlock was the riding star of the afternoon scoring with three of his mounts Scurlock booted Old Bet home first in the second race scored astride Count Foray in the third and then hustled Buds First across the finish line to be win ¬ ner of the seventh race raceDarby Darby Dimout who won his last start here on an off track carried 116 pounds topweight under the allowance conditions of the Finalist and sped the distance in 151 Installed a 11 to 10 choice over his five rivals the Shagrin horse raced to ex ¬ pectations and he might have increased his winning advantage had he been pun ¬ ished in the closing drive driveA A crowd of about 10000 witnessed the formful sport at the South Louisville course today Threatening weather prevailed dur ¬ ing the earlier part of the day but the sun broke through later in the afternoon add ¬ ing much to the comfort of the enthusi ¬ astic gathering Overnight rains left the track muddy muddyMonte Monte Parke youngest of the training brothers saddled two winners on the card Parke sent Mrs L B Kinards Dranik out to win the fivefurlong Gladstone Purse under Willie Lee Johnson and he also threw the tack on Snap Verse who won under Mr Kinards silks in the fourth event at six furlongs furlongsDranik Dranik turned in a game performance to whip M C Haddix Photo Light by two and onehalf lengths while the latter was second by a length and onehalf over James C Ellis early pacemaker Miss Neal in the Gladstone Dranik ran the distance over the soft going in 102 and paid 680 in the tote
