Andys Glory Victorious In Berlin Express Purse: Gushen Colorbearer Better Than Length to Good Over Directoire, Daily Racing Form, 1948-05-06

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Andys Glory Victorious In Berlin Express Purse PurseGushen Gushen Colorbearer Better Than Length to Good Over Directoire DirectoireSUFFOLK SUFFOLK DOWNS East Boston Mass May 5 Andys Glory the pirde and joy of Irving Gushen local shoe manufacturer who only yesterday watched his good colt Lou Smith die of a hemorrhage found some solace in the impressive victory of the Andy K colt as he proved best of three yearolds engaged in the featured sixth race Turning the six furlongs in 113 jgpod time for the good track Andys Glory finished a length and a quarter in advance of J Gavegananos Directoire Good News Stables Lady Carrie was just a neck away in third place nine lengths before Jake Freedmans Tiger Flash FlashPaul Paul Lucas and Robert Ryan stars of the current picture Berlin Express wit ¬ nessed the running of the race from the winners circle where they both congratu ¬ lated Mrs Irving Gushen and her son Irv ¬ ing Jr The victory of Andys Glory was popular all the way around It was the second success of the day for jockey George Hettinger who was sharing riding honors with Fernando Fernandez who also dis ¬ mounted in the winners circle twice during the early races The triumph was also the fourth of the afternoon for the form play ¬ ers whose choices failed only in the first and fifth races racesAndys Andys Glory was making his third start of the meeting while gaining his second success since the opening The race was by far his best of the young season as ME took complete charge of the situation after a quarter of a mile Racing along the rail down the backstretch Hettinger forged to tiie front before reaching the far turn Taking no chances with Jiis heavily played mount the veteran rider opened up a threelength advantage never letting up on the young colt as he went on to a clever score scoreDirectoire Directoire was on the outside of his field and losing ground when making his move on the turn The Burgoo King colt appeared capable of menacing the winner at the head of the stretch but Andys Glory was going strong and as straight as a string Lady Carrie was never far off the pace having no trouble in saving third honorst


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