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Blue Volts Rally Wins Exterminator Late Rally Rewards ToTuneof 16080 16080The The Spaniel Saves Second By Neck Over G R Petersen As Cardoza Loses Stirrups StirrupsBy By PALMER HEAGERTY Staff Correspondent BOWIE Md May 3 Circling the lead ¬ ers with a closing surge which was not to be denied Emerald Hill Stables Blue Volt this afternoon accounted for the featured Exterminator Purse as a 16080 rank out ¬ sider Two lengths behind the leader came Samue A Serpicos The Spaniel who was a neck before Herb C Boorses G R Peter sen The latter gained further support for hard luck honors at the meeting when his riders feet came out of the stirrup irons early in the stretch run runBlue Blue Volt hadnt been in the money in three starts this year but turned in a cork ¬ ing effort while covering a mile and a six ¬ teenth in 145 under jockey Angelo Vasil His lack of support in the Exterminator was rather hard to explain for he was just ahalf length behind The Spaniel when the two finished ninth and tenth respectively in the recent Southern Maryland Handicap In direct contrast to Blue Volt The Spaniel was well backed at slightly more than 6tol A crowd of 9200 sent G R having witnessed jockey George Cardoza goof in the only two races in which he had previously ridden the Boorse color bearer this year yearMully Mully S Refuses to Break BreakThe The start was good but Harry B Co ¬ hens Mully S showed no desire to com ¬ pete in the running and refused to leave the barrier The Spaniel went to the front under a pull in the early stages and con ¬ tinued to race in that manner while lead ¬ ing Miss Ann Uhlars Shadow Boxer and G R Petersen along the back stretch stretchShadow Shadow Boxers stay in contention lasted about five furlongs following which he took the easy way out and dropped back The Spaniel in the meantime was being hard pressed by G R Petersen and Blue Volt loomed a threat from the outside joining the fight for the lead nearing the stretch stretchBlue Blue Volts late charge proved too much for his rivals during the stretch run as G R Petersen with Cardoza unable to urge him being content to remain in the saddle was unable to wear down The Spaniel A fastclosing fourth in the race was W J Appels Tip EC the Italian bred who was making his first start of the year after having been claimed from his 53 finale for 8000 8000Jockey Jockey Eldon Nelson who has been dis ¬ playing fine local form came through with another saddle double prior to the feature He took the opener with North Hill Sta ¬ bles Laeternal a 720 chance then stole the third race astride Wayne Kendricks Miss Tacaro The latter paid 880 after having sneaked through on the oddson Major Pomp PompThere There was another disqualification in the fifth race Dion K Kerrs See My Way being placed second after having been f irst home over A T Taylors The Veep The latter was bothered repeatedly during the stretch run and after being moved into the top spot returned 2480
