Rippey Best in Princeton Handicap: Completes Double for Helis In Garden State Park Stake; Martin Drives Victor Home In Clear Ahead of Turbine Before Turnout of 28,200, Daily Racing Form, 1948-05-03

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WILLIAM HELIS Had two winners on Saturdays Garden State program Bu ¬ cephalus in the second race and Rippey in the Princeton Rippey Best in Princeton Handicap Completes Double for Helis In Garden State Park Stake Martin Drives Victor Home In Clear Ahead of Turbine Before Turnout of 28200 28200GARDEN GARDEN STATE PARK Camden N J May 1 Streaking around his field from a little beyond The threefurlong marker William G Helis Rippey sizzled down the home lane of the Garden State Park race course this afternoon to annex the sixth running of the sixfurlong 15000 Prince ¬ ton Handicap In a thrilling hardfought finish the successful choice of the majority in the crowd of 28200 managed to shake off Myron Newmeyers Turbine and hold the latter at bay by a length and onehalf while rounding out the sprint in the good time of 111 S Greenfields High Trend was third another length and onehalf behind and Hal Price Headleys Bogle was fourth in the group of seven Rippey was installed a lto2 hazard for his fifth start of the year In racing to his second triumph of the season he earned 12775 and increased to 30365 his earn ¬ ings for the year yearMartin Martin Shares in Double DoubleRobert Robert J Martin who had piloted Helis1 expensive yearling acquisition Bucephalus to victory in the second race was astride Rippey The youthful rider was hard put during the early stages to rate the son of Pompey Broad Ripple as the fiveyearold had a lot of run from the very start Mar ¬ tin succeeded however in holding Rippey in third position in the run down the back stretch as Bogle set the pace followed closely by Agilant On turning into the far curve Rippey began his forward charge from the outside Bogle was through and was giving ground almost as fast as Agilant With these two out of the running the Helis representative was able to go to the front without difficulty midway between the threefurlong marker and the quarter pole Turbine was also commencing his move But while he tried desperately to challenge the Marylandbred just could not reach Rippey High Trend who finished third turned in a game effort He was closing ground on the first two in the run through the stretch It might be that the son of Jack High Rosetown will prove a strong factor in next Saturdays renewal of the 15000 Valley Forge Handicap at one mile for which he as well as Rippey and Turbine are eligible eligibleFor For the second time at the meeting Dell Stables Flower Bed shattered a track rec j ord On this occasion the pleasing looking large bay twoyearold sped five furlongs in 59 to clip a full second off the pre ¬ vious mark The daughter of Beau Pere Boudoir n had to be kept going to the very end though to lead home Big Nose by three parts of a length In third position was the fastclosing Some Speed A win ¬ ning ticket was worth 4 4This This was the first time at the meeting that juveniles contested at five furlongs 20000 last February had the most speed from the start and while she set the pace from start to finish her leadership was continually threatened She is an eligible for the Rancolas and Garden State Stakes


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