view raw text
j Incrimination in Driving Garden State Park Tally Downs Regal Manner While Giving Jockey C. Rogers Double for Day GARDEN STATE PARK, Camden. N. J.. May 15. — Wildwood Farms Incrimination ran down H. P. Headleys peacemaking Regal Manner in the stretch to win the Kensington Purse here this afternoon, driving to the wire a length before his rival. A nose back in third place was King Ranchs Script, who came with a rush from the rear. Jockey Chris Rogers, who was completing a double, whipped the winner home lefthanded in 1:46% over a slow track. Incrimination, chalking his first victory in five starts this year, paid 3.60 to his backers in the crowd of 15,758. It was a gray, extremely humid, afternoon and only one favorite was successful for the form players. Rogers had previously been moved into the winners circle on Peddie in the fourth race. Incrimination, a three-year-old son of Questionnaire — Balking, was bred by A. G. Vanderbilt, and had finished second over the same mile and a sixteenth distance in his last outing. Incrimination followed Regal Manner. Abidjan and Count Cavour around the first turn and down the backstretch. making his move as they rounded the final bend. Regal Manner, who had opened up a three-length lead at one stage, came into the stretch with a dwindling margin, as Incrimination loomed up on the outside and Count Cavour went in on the rail. Burr, on Regal Manner, saw his opposition looming and went to work with the whip, lefthanded, rousing his mount to his utmost, but Regal Manner was not able to hold off Incrimination, who surged past him and went on to increase his margin. Script had come up with a charge in the late stages on the outside and just missed getting second by a narrow margin.
