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White Plume Chalks Up Second Ascot Park Win Pureed Racer, Jockey Kratz Give Trainer Simpson Eighth Success ASCOT PARK, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, May 20. — For the second consecutive afternoon the popular combination of trainer Jimmy Simpson and jockey Freddy Kratz came through in one of the better offerings on the nine-race program. This time it was James Purcells White Plume who garnered the victory, his second of the Ascot Park meeting. White Plume bettered Careless Love after a bitter stretch duel. The winner, who was the fourth winning favorite through the fifth event, paid .40 and was timed in 1:25 for the six and one-half furlongs over a slow track. A fine midweek crowd of 4,850 turned out under bright skies to witness the program. White Plume broke fifth in this race but on the clubhouse turn moved into third position two lengths behind Careless Love, who was setting the pace. At the end of the run down the backstretch, White Plume was still third while between horses but the leaders margin had been cut to a length and a half. Rounding the final bend. Kratz guided White Plume to the extreme outside and at the furlong marker he was starting to ramble while being energetically handled by the former steeplechase rider. A sixteenth of a mile from "paydirt," White PJume drew on even terms with Careless Love and in the final 70 yards, the six-year-old Count Fleet gelding drew clear. The Simpson Stable has now won eight races and has been gaining steadily on trainers Kenny McLaughlin and Pete Maxwell, Who are now the top two trainers at this meeting. Trainer Stanley Lipiec, a one-time leading trainer in the country, saddled his first winner of the current meeting when Kibby F. came through with a three and a half length verdict over Stentor in the third race at six and one-half furlongs. The winner was a lukewarm favorite and returned her backers .40 and ran the test in 1:33%. She was ridden by Gardner Darlington. Kibby F., a five-year-old Ocean Wave mare, was never far off the pace moving around Stentor on the final bend and then drawing clear while drifting out. It was her first victory of the year and her second start here at Ascot Park. Lipiec was the leading trainer of the nation in 1945 when he saddled a total of 127 winners who earned a gross of 38,361. The majority of those victorie£"were scored during the summer months at the old Fair Grounds in Detroit.
