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I Dark Royal Equals Record in Avalon TED ATKINSON Represented the riders at The Jockey Club round table discussions. Gets Nose Decision Over Marked Game Travels Seven Furlongs in V:232s at Atlantic City Under Jockey W. Passmore By FRED GALIANI Staff Correspondent ATLANTIC CITY, Mays Landing, N. J., Aug. 24. Holding off Kay-Gee Stables Marked Game in a driving finish, Killian Farms Dark Royal eked out a nose victory in the featured Avalon Purse here this afternoon, equaling the track record for the seven furlongs in his last ditch stand. Under jockey Willie Passmore, the winner sped the seven-eighths in 1:23, tying the time set by Halter and equaled two days later by Atalanta. In third place, two lengths farther back, came Castle Rock Farms Grey Hour, who set the pace, for most of the journey, dropping back only in the last sixteenth. Dark Royal, who raced coupled with Resilient, another Killian Farm representative, paid 8.60 as the majority in the crowd of 18,715 placed their confidence in W. W. Waters Bea Marony, who wound up fourth, a head in back of Grey Hour. The winner, a three-year-old son of Royal Gem n. Elteebe, had won only one race previous in 15 starts this year, when he scored at six furlongs at Monmouth Park, although he earned three seconds and the same number of thirds. Grey Hour Assumes Command Grey Hour, who has been a consistent six-furlong campaigner, outran his rivals from the break and went into the lead soon after the start, while Dark Royal moved right after him and went into second place. Dash-O-Light was third, while Marked Game was far back in the pack and just ahead of Bea Marony. The order di nt change appreciably among the leaders as they went to the far turn, while Marked Game and Bea Marony both started to move up from their positions. Grey Hour ed as they came around the turn for home, but Dark Royal had him nailed and soon swept past him as they passed the eighth pole, while Dash-O-Light continued along in third place. Marked Game came with a tremendous surge and swept in between Dash-O-Light and Dark Royal in the last sixteenth and for a moment it looked like his furious -drive would get him to the leader in time, but Dark Royal dropped his nose right on the wire, to earn the verdict. Grey Hour continued along gamely and held third money safe from the favorite, who -also came between horses in the run through the stretch, but was "never close enough to be dangerous. Darby Dan Farms two regular riders, Walter B. Williams and Harrison B. Wilson, , both scored doubles in the early portion of the program, although only one of them , was registered under the fawn silks of the Ohio racing outfit. Williams rode both ends of the 84.20 Double, scoring with Darby Dans Sarah Wheaton in the first and Tommy Rod-rocks First Peep in the second. Sarah Wheaton paid and Little Peep returned : 1.80. Wilson racked up his duo on W. H. Cames Bob Carey, worth 8.80, in the fourth race and Mrs. Bowes TBondi Damion, a .80 chance, in the fifth.
