Get Ready Prevails Over Shooters Hill, Mrs. Eck: Yale, Odds-On Choice, Finishes Weary Fourth at River Downs, Daily Racing Form, 1953-06-12

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Get Ready Prevails Over Shooters Hill Mrs Eck EckYale Yale OddsOn Choice Finishes Weary Fourth at Rver Downs DownsBy By B E HURLEY HURLEYStaff Staff Correspondent CorrespondentRIVER RIVER DOWNS California Ohio June 11 Frisse and Jones Get Ready carried too many guns for the oddson Yale in the fourth race of the afternoon here over the mile and a sixteenth route as L Grubb had the gelding onelength clear of Shooters Hill who was six lengths before Mrs Eck EckYale Yale who had been backed into 4 to 5 favoritism failed to show any rally at all and finished a weary fourth fourthGet Get Ready returned 920 to those in the crowd of 4563 who liked the gelding who is at his best over adrying out race track The track today was just to Get Readys liking as the gelding ran down the pace setting Shooters Hill in the final sixteenth to be going away at the end Time overjthe good track was 148 148Double Double numbers again accounted for the opening races on the card as the magic six flashed successfully under the wire in the opening races of the day dayDelux Delux John left the maiden ranks in the first race to provide owner Creel Brown Jr with his first winner of the Cincinnati season after shipping his string from Ken ¬ tucky Delux John was the favorite with the crowd and returned 620 for his half length win winDave Dave Leicht had another maiden carry ¬ ing the saddle cloth number six home suc ¬ cessfully in the second as Miss Bowyer a twoyearbid held a short neck over the fastclosing Grand Boston at the finish of the five furlongs dash


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