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1 Stepping Miss Victorious; Keene Injured at Suffolk SUFFOLK DOWNS, East Boston, Mass., ! May 29. — Saving ground on the turn for j home, as the favorite went a bit wide seek-| ing the firmer going, Rumstick Lodge Inc.s j Stepping Miss outdrove D. F. Harringtons Magdala in the final sixteenth to win the ■ ,000 Blueberry Purse, a six-furlong dash for fillies and mares, the pre-holiday fea-I ture at Suffolk Downs today. Whether that slight drift by Magdala, the first out of the gate and three lengths I in front at the turn for home, made the j difference, or whether the additional five i pounds the Harrington mare picked up in the switch of riders made the difference, the point was that Stepping Miss, a superior mud mare, had too much stuff in the final strides. Willie Canning, the Worcester-bred jockey, handled his mount carefully and then, when in front at the 70-yard mark, held the favorite safe. Mrs. D. B. Millers Lady Gremlin, closest in pursuit through the early running, saved the show from G. S. Jones Nell A. The switch in riders for Magdala came as the result of an unusual accident that happened after the previous race, the fifth, when Harold Keene, the Lowell red-head, was thrown by his mount, Miguelito, after crossing the finish line in third place. Miguelito stumbled near the six and a half furlong pole while being pulled up and Keene went off. He apparently was unhurt at first, but then his ankle began to ache and he was taken first to the track hospital and then to the Chelsea Memorial hospital for treatment of a broken left ankle.
