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Roi Rouge Concedes Six Foes Weight in Spokane Southern Pride, Best Prospect Seek Featured Sprint at Downs CHURCHjLL DOWNS, Louisville, Ky., May 14.— The Spokane Purse, seven-furlong sprint fashioned for four-year-olds and upward, heads Mondays program at this south side course as the current 19-day meeting swings into its third and final week. What with the 1949 editions of the Kentucky Derby, Kentucky Oaks and other local; stakes written into history, only this seasons renewal of the 0,000 Churchill Downs Handicap remains on the agenda. A select group of veteran speedsters were named to contest the Spokane, and Leo J. Hollenbachs Roi Rouge will answer the bugle under the top impost of 121 pounds. This seven-year-old son of Burgoo King and Grenadine has always displayed a decided fondness for the local strip and since his arrival from Florida has been working cleverly. During his tenure in the South during the past winter Roi Rouge registered one victory in eight starts and campaigned with the better allowance and handicap performers in that sector. In his last outing at Gulfstream Roi Rouge was a most impressive victor of the Bicycle Institute Purse as he sped to a 10-length triumph over such stellar middle-distance charges as Sanmar Stables Blackmont and Joseph A. Goodwins Song Sparrow. Slated to oppose the Hollenbach color-bearer are such other well-regarded sprinters as Michael J. Dants Southern Pride, Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Bowles McCosh, Augustus and Nahms Your Reward, Mrs. Leo Wagners Nickey W., Leo J. Caillouettes Best Prospect and Mrs. Frank P. Letelliers Queen Hairan. In his seasonal bow, Southern Pride made all of the early pace in the Inaugural Handicap only to give way in the late stages to Calumets Bewitch and Mrs. Emil Dene-marks Enforcer in the six-furlong event, ia which the Calumet miss registered a nef track record of 1:10%. Following that, ef* fort, Southern Pride came back again to finish unplaced to the arrear of King Bay, Tidy Sum and Countess In, in the Elwood Purse. However, this was decided over an extremely muddy oval and Southern Pride did not appear to extend himself fully.
