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Barnes Parks Odds Drop LONDON, England, May 19 Reuters .— Barnes Park, who was third in the Two Thousand Guineas, was backed heavily tonight for the Epsom Derby at the Victoria Club call-over. His price was cut from 20 to 1 to 100 to 7. Others who were well backed were the American-bred Brown Rover and the French colt, Val Drake. The quotations offered were: Royal Forest, 7 to 2; Nimbus, 13 to 2; Swallow Tail, 10 to l; Barnes Park, 100 to 7; Peter Flower, 100 to 6; Val Drake and Hindostan, 18 to 1; Brown Rover and Amour Drake, 20 to 1; Scottish Meridian, 22 to 1, and Gades, 33 to 1.
