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Eternal Bomb Finishes In Clear at Detroit Oval OvalHolds Holds ThreeLength Margin Over Favored Fancy Flyer FlyerFAIR FAIR GROUNDS Detroit Mich June 4 Eternal Bomb gray son of Eternal Bull and War Party who races for J A Kin ard Jr of Brickeys Ark brought along the good form that saw him an easy win ¬ ner in his latest engagement at Churchill Downs to lope to a convincing threelength tally in the Kay Spence Purse that fea ¬ tured todays sport at this course In com ¬ mand of the situation from the beginning Eternal Bomb was able to shake off O F Woodwards Mighty Fox after a quarter of a mile and draw clear on the turn There was no further challenge to his supremacy and it was Fancy Flyer from the stable of Graham Byrum the favorite who was second The bid of the latter through the home lane found him unable to make any inroads into the advantage of the winner but the effort saw him eight lengths before S J Bondys fastfinishing but soundly trounced Sunday Beau who was third in the field of eight threeyearolds threeyearoldsClear Clear weather and a fast racing strip again greeted the 8561 patrons who were on hand to witness the program that catered exclusively to threeyearolds in four of the races racesCombest Combest sent Eternal Bomb over the six furlongs of the feature in a creditable 111 as his owner looked on and he paid 860 as third choice Chippewa Chief who was coupled with Mighty Fox as the O F Woodward entry and who came in for considerable support raced in third posi ¬ tion to the stretch where he faltered to wilt into the discard The others in the field were never prominent prominentThe The first of four races exclusively for threeyearolds saw Henry Forrests Salig nac come from back of the pace to earn a two and onehalf lengths margin victory in the first race Ridden by novice rider Lois C Cook for that lads third saddle suc ¬ cess in two years of riding under the De ¬ troit Jockey School auspices Salignac led in the favored Lawyers Gold as FullTreat ment was third in the field of eight Sal ¬ ignac had faced the starter only three times previously in his racing career which started this spring and he was overlooked to return 2740 2740Sophomores Sophomores that had not won a race met in the second tilt and here Royal Roman from the stable of Grissom Sherman was up from far back to eke out a nose verdict over E R Morris favored Dabster after the latter had taken a clear lead in the stretch Here it appeared that apprentice W M Cook brother of the rider of the first winner became over ¬ confident when in front and was unaware of the rush of the winner as he was letting up on his charge at the wire Namelate also finished very fast to be third thirdRoyal Royal Roman returned 1340 and com ¬ pleted a Daily Double worth 202 202Grissom Grissom Shermans Kantar Run be ¬ came the first threetime winner at the meeting when he drove to a head verdict in the first turf course race of the sea ¬ son The aging winner ousted David Za koors Silver Sweep from command right on the wire and a length farther back Miss Blindfold was a surprise third
