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Calvados New England Invasion Is Successful SuccessfulRegisters Registers First Win of Season At Direct Expense of Naval Base BaseSUFFOLK SUFFOLK DOWNS East Boston Mass May 8 Calvados flying the gold with black sleeves of the Lazy F Ranch made a successful New England invasion as he conquered Colgate Farms Naval Base in the 10000 Commonwealth Handicap here today The heavilyplayed favorite reached the wire a length and a half in advance of his main rival Naval Base who in turn enjoyed a similar margin over Mrs Harry Gordons Laboulaye Calvados completed the mile and a sixteenth trip in 149 V5 over the muddy racing strip as he won his first purse in three starts this year yearThe The attendance was at its usual high weekend level a crowd of 24316 turning out for the days sport which was con ¬ ducted under cloudy skies and over a muddy racing strip following the rains of the previous night An added thrill was found on the program when Cresson Farms Miss Russell got the best of ap ¬ prentice Mike Mafale while parading prior to the running of the second race raceThe The threeyearold filly galloped the wrong way of the track on the outside rail in the direction of the stable area bump ¬ ing the railing and tossing Mafale off her back The young rider appeared to skid and bounce along the fence luckily escap ¬ ing with only a shaking up He canceled his engagement on Sister Eileen in the fourth but came back to ride Bogging Bob and Warrior Prince later in the program programNaval Naval Base ran in greatly improved fa ¬ shion over recent local races apparently moving up many lengths over the off track The field was off to a perfect start when Naval Base displayed the most early speed to gain command before reaching the clubhouse turn Jack McKnights AgrarianTJ tha known speed horse in the race was expected to open up a long lone ¬ some lead but Naval Base had different ideas as he took the track from New Eng ¬ lands champion sprinter sprinterStraightening Straightening out into the backstretch Naval Base had put two lengths between himself and the McKnight representative Calvados was in third place five lengths off the pacemaker and running closely locked with Laboulaye Naval Base had no intention of giving up his role of pace ¬ maker as AgrarianTJ made repeated at ¬ tempts to take command The order of running showed no change into the stretch where Naval Base was showing the way by a length and a half but Calvados was now moving through on the rail to engage the leaders leadersDrawing Drawing abreast of the early leader in the vicinity of the eighth pole Calvados now was doing his best with Naval Base struggling to hold his margin which had now dwindled to just a half length How ¬ ever the bid of the favorite was not to be denied as jockey Arnold Kirkland called on his mount for that last payoff effort Calvados jumping quickly to the fore to win in a driving finish Laboulaye was never worse than fourth In the running moving up to take third money by better than three lengths from R B Carrolls Belrate
