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Intent Rules Early Choice For Golden Gate Handicap HandicapGOLDEN GOLDEN GATE FIELDS Albany Calif May 7 Fans will have no trouble naming the favorite for Saturdays renewal of the 50000 Golden Gate Handicap in which all of the leading older horses on the ground will meet over a mile and a quarter He is the Brookfield Farms Intent who last weekend charged to victory over the mile and an eighth of the FortyNiners Handi ¬ cap in which he turned back most of those he is expected to encounter again on clos ¬ ing day dayIntent Intent had to give his best to get a nose decision over C H Jones and Sons Lights Up but It was the son of War Relics first 1 try over the Golden Gate Fields track and his next effort can reasonably be expected to be an even better one Intent was shouldering 126 pounds to 123 for Lights Up and those are the same weights they will carry in the 50000 feature featureA A bangup third in the FortyNiners was Mrs Connie Rings Conversion and he too must be conceded to have an excellent chance in the Golden Gate Handicap He was only a length off the leaders and if his rider Taylor Powell is correct in saying his mount had a little trouble he might have been even closed Powell lodged a claim of foul against Intent charging that the Brookfield horse bothered him at the fivesixteenths pole but the stewards con ¬ sulted the pictures of the race and saw no reason to alter the order of finish
