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Sunny Dale Takes Lexington by Nose Outgames The Gink While Favored Inseparable Runs Third in Churchill Feature CHURCHILL DOWNS, Louisville, Ky.. May 15. — Buddah Stables Sunny Dale, a five-year-old stakes-winning daughter of Eight Thirty and Sun Mixa, splashed through the mud here this cloudy afternoon to a gamely achieved victory inthe Lexington Handicap. Feature attraction on the semi-final program of the Kentucky spring season which was witnessed by a crowd of approximately 10,000 spectators. Responding a hustling ride from jockey William McKinley Cook, the Minneapolis, Minnesota-owned winner reached the end of the mile and one-sixteenth a nose before Brown Hotel Stables The Gink. Hasty House Farms highweighted and favored Inseparable ran third two and one-half lengths off the top pair while Mrs. J. P. Keezeks Abbe Sting was a distant fourth in the field of six Lexington Handicap starters. Sunny Dale, pegged at 116 pounds which burden was six pounds less than that shouldered by Inseparable, raced the Lexington route through the wet going in 1:48%. The Buddah Stable mare was third choice inthe speculation at 21 to5 to capture here fourth triumph in but eight starts this year. Moves Into Home Lane Length on Top Inseparable put Pollard and Harkins Our Challenge away after settling in the back-stretch, then moved into the home lane with a length advantage on Sunny Dale and The Gink, the latter pair being separated by a head. During the drive to the wire, Inseparable simply could not handle his bulky impost and withstand his two rivals as they staged a sharp duel for major honors, Sunny Dale getting the verdict by a scant margin in the last strides. The Gink held on gamely during the late stages and he was an easy second over Inseparable, who held a 12-length lead on Abbe Sting for the show award. Goshen Stables Air Mail, one of the more consistent racers in Kentucky this spring, won his fourth purse in six starts when he coasted to an easy victory in the seven-furlong fifth. Confidently handled by Dar-rell Madden, who was completing a saddle double, the victor, a six-year-old gelded son of Alsab and All Lizzie, sped home six lengths before his nearest rival, Brown Hotel Stables hard-charging Old Fiddle. Just a head back, Rush Williams Sweet Freedom ran third. Trainer William Doyle, who saddled Air Mail, sent out Warner L. oJnes, Jr.s Say-Belle to defeat five rivals in the mile and one-sixteenth third event. Jockey Madden took the Jones filly to the front soon after the start of the middle distance test and she breezed to the finish with an eight-length margin. R. A. Paracheks Sunny-brook Sue was second after a rather rough trip while Theodore D. Buhls Hi Suzanne earned the short end of the purse in the band of a half dozen three-year-olds. O. and R. Pollocks Jerrys Gem, a gelded son of Royal Gem II. and Pretty Fox making the first start of his career, took command at the start of the five furlongs ■ Clover Purse and decisively trimmed 10 1 youngsters, reaching the final marker with a length and three-quarters to spare over E. F. Colliers Janes Pride.
