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HappyJackNever Headed In Ascot Park Offering Plesa Completes Consecutive Double Astride Inglish Racer By RONALD KRANCER Staff Correspondent ASCOT PARK, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, May 11. — Jack Inglish s Happy Jack scored a front-running victory in one of the better races here this afternoon. Eddie Plesa had the winning mount, who paid .00 as the second winning favorite through the sixth race, and he ran the mile and one-sixteenth in 1:47% over a fast track. Poinsette was second a length and three-quarters in arrears and another five lengths in front of Unison who was ridden by Freddy Kratz. Plesa, who won three races on Saturday, was completing a consecutive double in this event. Happy Jack was second out of the gate when starter Eddie Anthony effected the start. He moved up fast on the inside to gain the lead soon thereafter and was never headed at any time. Poinsette was taken back while on the backstretch, then moved up boldly entering the far turn, but could not overtake the favorite through the stretch run. The Inglish colorbearer was winning his fourth race of the year having performed in Arizona during the winter months. In his first race over the local track he wound up third behind Porzo and Snatched. His time this afternoon was the best of the meeting and was two-fifths of a second faster than Scrubs mile and a sixteenth. Scrub is looked to by many veteran horsemen and officials here at Ascot as the best horse quartered here at present. Roaming Oscar, at fifty cents to a dollar, disappointed the majority of fans assembled here this afternoon when he wound up a poor third in the fourth event. The winner turned out to be Bodnar Bros Ball the Jack who really "turned it on" reeling off the four and a half furlongs in :54, flat, with apprentice Eddie Josephick aboard. Ball the Jack returned 3.40 and was three parts of a length in front of Terrific at the wire.
