Umpydan in Front Throughout Buck Forman Purse at Detroit: Canters Home Six Lengths Before Favored Lees Summit For First Success of Year, Daily Racing Form, 1948-06-16

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Umpydan in Front Throughout Buck Forman Purse at Detroit Canters Home Six Lengths Before Favored Lees Summit For First Success of Year YearFAIR FAIR GROUNDS Detroit Mich June 15 Umpydan a sevenyearold son of Head Play who races for W L Huntley of Miami loped to a convincing sixlength tally in the featured Buck Forman Purse at this course today for his first success of the season Master of his 11 opponents from the beginning Umpydan was steadied in the van position throughout and eased into his winning margin through the stretch under the guidance of Walter Litzenberg while covering the six furlongs in 111 111Closest Closest to the winner at the end but no match for him was the favored Lees Sum ¬ mit from the stable of Grissom Sher ¬ man The consistent son of Whiskalong had been unable to match the early speed of the race but when settled into stride he swept into the runnerup position on the turn into the home lane but his best efforts found him unable to make any in ¬ roads into the advantage of Umpydan Third in the race went to R S McLaugh lins1 fastfinishing Santa Claus whose be ¬ lated bid from a rather slow beginning saw him closing fastest of all allClear Clear weather and a good program lured 9173 patrons to the course and interesting sport resulted from most of the supporting races with favorites accounting for the first and third races racesDouble Double for Litzenberg LitzenbergWalter Walter Litzenberg leading rider at the meeting continued his successes by scoring a double astride Umpydan and Dina Belle winner of the sixth race Dina Belle regis ¬ tered her tally in frontrunning style to shake off a stubborn challenge in the final quarter mile from the favored Burning Chips to lead that contender by a length and a half at the finish Third in the field of a dozen went to Reno in a tight fit over Coo as these two field horses came to the wire on almost equal terms termsBomar Bomar Stables Not So Good making her first start at the meeting was a front running winner of the sixfurlong first race Steadied in front by novice rider Lois C Cook the winner drew out in the stretch to finish three lengths before the closely locked Tribal II and Sun Goose who fin ¬ ished in that order The division of the Bomar Stable racing at this point is trained by Arthur Goldblatt and the tally of Not So Good marked the first success of the Bomar silks at this meeting meetingA A tight fit came out of the running of the second when Detroit Stables Gay All set drove up on the outside to nip the pace ¬ maker B Nineteen right on the wire at the end of the six furlongs Que Tal was third less than a length farther back in the field of a dozen reduced to 11 con ¬ tenders when Sgt Jimmy lost his rider Howard Craig right after the start Gay Allset was scoring her first victory of the year and returned 1840 while completing a Daily Double worth 65 65Trainer Trainer Henry Forrest displayed a likely looking twoyearold filly in Mrs C W Mussetts Coquinet who came from far back in the early stages of the fivefurlong third race to lead in nine juvenile oppo ¬ nents It was the first start for the daugh ¬ ter of Fellowship and Grand Flight and her only real opposition at the end came from the favored Miboys Sugar who was slightly more than a length away and six lengths before Boss B who was third


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