Victors in Early Ft. Miami Events Register Easily: Irish Game, Jolly Flyer and Star Nymph Assert Superiority, Daily Racing Form, 1954-05-04

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Victors in Early Ft Miami Events Register Easily EasilyIrish Irish Game Jolly Flyer and Star Nymph Assert Superiority SuperiorityBy By W A CRUSE Staff Correspondent FORT MIAMI Maumee Ohio May 3 Cold bleak weather accompanied by a muddy race track after the week end rains kept the attendance down to a minimum for the days card The weatherman has predicted that it may warm up later today but his predictions for this area have been anything but consoling to those who like it warm during the first 14 days of this session sessionThe The first three races on the card were won easily by their respective victors in the opener R J Wintergersts Irish Game took the top at the break and in the muddy going stayed there to cover the six furlongs in 119 and was a good seven lengths the best over his closest rival Mr and Mrs J Batemans Charing Prince Handled by apprentice William Hubbard the Rounders gelding rewarded those who supported him with a 1360 mutuel mutuelThe The second race and second half of the Daily Double found Borgemenke Wood mansees Jolly Flyer and jockey Norman Cartwright galloping to a fourlength vic ¬ tory over Mrs E W Schanies Battle Cry Cartwright and Jolly Flyer like Irish Game and Hubbard made it a frontrunning af ¬ fair all the way The favorite in the bet ¬ ting Jolly Flyer returned 540 and com ¬ pleted a 6220 Daily Double DoubleGale Gale Osbornes Star Nymph the strong ¬ est favorite of the first three races was also an easy victor The goodlooking Lovely Night filly and jockey W D Lucas decided that they too wanted to be in from start to finish and at the end of the six furlongs had two and onehalf lengths on Miss L Turners A Plus Star Nymph returned 420 after touring the six fur ¬ longs in a very dull 119 119Flags Flags were all flying at half mast here today following the news of the death of Royce G Martin prominent Toledo busi ¬ nessman and sportsman Martin was presi ¬ dent of the AutoLite company here m Toledo and had for years been active in the thoroughbred industry It was his Goyamo who finished fourth in the eight ¬ ieth running of the Kentucky Derby last Saturday SaturdayA A week end of steady rain and a de ¬ cidedly cold blue Monday found racing secretary John L Watkins with a problem on his hands to fill the entries for Tues ¬ day dayIn In view of this condition the eight races are made up with 800 to 1000 platers with one graded event where the cam ¬ paigners are either worth 1000 or 1250


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