Concrete Takes Measure of Sky Train In Clever Score at Churchill Downs: Crew Three-Year-Old Holds Almost Three-Length Edge In Mile and Sixteenth Test, Daily Racing Form, 1948-05-14

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Concrete Takes Measure of Sky Train In Clever Score at hurchill Downs Crew ThreeYearOld Holds Almost ThreeLength Edge In Mile and Sixteenth Test TestCHURCHILL CHURCHILL DOWNS Louisville Ky M y 13 Concrete a threeyearold son of War Dog and Falco carried S I Crews silks to a clever victory here today in the fourth race one of the better offerings on a mediocre program Well ridden by Joe DAugustino who w completing a saddle double the Crew colt sped to the end of his one mile and onesixteenth trip two and threequarters lengths before Louis J Hollenbachs Sky Train second by four lengths in advance of I J Collins Fred F Sky Train and Fred Fl were cofavorites cofavoritesOnly Only six threeyearolds met in the mid diedistance test and William Veenemans Spring Gal Miss Billie Rpses Rose Light and Walker Brothers Eberenzs Fair Arab finished behind the placed trio in that order orderStarter Starter Ruby White sent the small field away in good orders and after a brief duel I Concrete raced Rose Light into defeat and established a clear lead Rose Liglit held on well to the stretch before dropping back and Sk Train then came to the inside for the drive and egan his bid Sky Train could not menace the Crew colt butf he was an easy second over Fred F who could not seriously threaten the leaders Cloudy and cool weather prevailed today in the Louisville area but an active crowd of some 10000 patrons witnessed the offday card The course was fast but slightly dull dullMiss Miss Billie Rose furnished the winner in the first race which matched 12 twoyear olds at five furlongs Scarlet Light gradu ¬ ating in her first appearance under silks Jockey Brooks had the mount on scarlet Light and he drove the Rose miss hard through the stretch his charge scoring by a neck margin over D Standif ers Copper Chip who was second by a length over James C Ellis welMregarded Mary Carlyn Scarlet Light lost considerable ground while racingon the outside to the stretch and after Brooks took her to the outside for the drive she closed with a rush ample enough to wear down Mary Carlyn and then hold Copper Chip safe Scarlet Light sped the distance in 101 and she re ¬ turned 960 straight H A Deeps Miss Loretta was a surprise winner in the sixfurlong second race which matched a dozen ordinary platers Miss Ijbretta handled by Joe D Augustino lasted to take a half length verdict over Detroit Stable Incs Doctor L M who was a length and onequarter on Brown Woods lairds Cat third Miss Loretta completed her task in 113 and paid 5840 in the straight tote pool


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