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Rite-Speed Rite-Speed Extends Extends Winning Winning Streak; Streak; Hollywood, Hollywood, HBPA HBPA Reach Reach Agreement Agreement Drives Home Neck To Good at Downs GandK Stable Homebred Beats Dosta in Shively Purse for Her Fourth Straight Score By DON FAIR Staff Correspondent CHURCHILL DOWNS, Louisville, Ky., May 14. — Rite-Speed, a well-conformed homebred daughter of Bold Irishman and Cindy Lee, carried the C Ac K Stable colors to a driving victory here this afternoon in the featured Shively Purse before a crowd of 8,000 who braved miserable weather to witness the sport. Rite-Speed, who had the saddle services of Sherman Armstrong, splashed through the mud and reached the end of the five-furlong headliner with a neck to spare over Clifford Mooers Dosta, while, a similar margin back, Mrs. Nicholas Viscusis Dicks Future was along to get the show more than six lengths before Mrs. Otto C. Neumanns Beanir, fourth in the field of seven juveniles meeting in the dash. Rite-Speed, good winner of three of her four previous engagements, sped the Shively distance over the wet strip in 1:00% while shouldering high weight of 118 pounds under the allowance conditions. Lightly-regarded in spite of her splendid Florida record, the C and K Stable filly was no better than fourth choice to Three W Stables Larrieweil in the speculation returning her backers 3.80. Beanir Sets Pace Beanir was first to show in front after the Shively field left starter Reuben Whites gate in good order and the Neumann miss set the pace until near the stretch with Dosta in closest attendance. Rite-Speed occupied third position within striking distance of the leaders to the final turn while the favored Larrieweil was a prominent fourth. Turning into the home lane, Beanir bore out so badly that she lost all chance for major honors and Rite-Speed also drifted to the outside but quickly straightened up under Armstrongs alert handling. Dosta held a clear advantage passing the furlong marker and held on gamely in the last sixteenth but Rite-Speed came with a fine burst of speed and nipped the Mooers colt in the last strides. Dicks Future, who had been well back in the initial three-eighths mile, closed with a rush but could not overtake the top pair while Beanir was a tiring fourth and the favored Larrieweil, who appeared to Continued on Page Forty-Six Rite-Speed Downs Victor ; For Fourth Win in Row Drives Home Neck in Front of Dosta in Mud in Shively Purse Continued from Page One dislike the off track, wound up fifth beaten ; off almost nine lengths. Juveniles met in the initial two offerings. I Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Daniels Bit o I Bim. ridden by Johnny Nazareth, beat a 1 capacity field of fillies in the five-furlong 1 opener, and the Detroit-owned G and G 1 Stables Eternal Shock, with Johnny Adams at the reins, beat 11 youngsters in the sec- 1 ond race at a like distance. t Bit o Bim came from off the early pace t to take a length and one-quarter gradua- £ tion decision in the initial event, beating i ; I I 1 1 1 1 t t £ i Locust Wood Farms Rose of Grey, who was but a head in advance of E. K. Thomas favored Strawberrylane at the wire. Rose of Grey suffered interference during the last sixteenth when she bumped with Mrs. M. J. Hoydics Freada W., the tiring early pacemaker. Eternal Shock, a son of Eternal Reward and Little Shock, coasted to an easy five-length accounting in the second, while Shady Brook Farms Etruria was three lengths before Everett Lowrances Tulsa for the place award. Green Acres Stock Farms Colleen K. saved fourth money in the dash. Jockey Johnny Heckmann, of New Orleans, registered a saddle double early in the afternoon, hustling C. H. Maynes Fastener home first in the one mile third, then scored astride P. L. Hallums Mr. Skeeter in the six-furlong fourth.
