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Choice Bits, Our Cindy Win Early Detroit Races Score as By Degrees, Lils Gadget Are Disappointing Favorites DETROIT, Mich., June 21. — Favorites went down to defeat here today in the first and second races when M. and I. Pricketts Choice Bits, ridden by Lois Cook, and P. L. Grissoms Our Cindy, handled by Alfred Popara, earned mildly surprising victories. Choice Bits was a 17 to 5 second choice to Henry Forrests By Degrees in the initial five-furlong juvenile dash, while Our Cindy returned 2.60 straight. The Daily Double pay-off on the victorious duo was 7.60. Choice Bits went to the front at the start of the first event and, after establishing a good lead entering the stretch, was ridden out to beat Buckley and Locklears What Goes On by a length and one-half. M. E. Reizens Pennwoven was third, while the favored By Degrees could do no better than seventh, giving a dull performance under apprentice Gerald Champagne. Choice Bits was clocked in 1:00%. Our Cindy gave a particularly game effort to defeat Peter A. Markeys fast-finishing Rheastat in the second, a head separating the two leaders at the wire. I. J. Collins filly, Lils Gadget, favorite for the race, earned the short end of the purse, four and one-half lengths back. James Paddocks Lovely Locust ran fourth in the field of 10 two-year-old fillies contesting the sprint. Running time was 1:00%. Clody skies and a threat of rain cut attendance, a crowd of approximately 7,500 turning out for the sport, which was decided on a fast track.
