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Just Sidney Handy Victor in Camden CamdenDefeats Defeats Dark Peter While Squared Away Is Third on Muddy Garden State Strip StripBy By FRED GALIANI GALIANIGARDEN GARDEN STATE PARK Camden N J May 8 Performing to the expectations of most of the crowd of 32158 William H Foales Just Sidney rigged at 113 pounds streaked to a handy victory in the thir ¬ teenth running of the Camden Handicap here this afternoon The fouryearold son of Deliberator came to the finish of the six furlongs three lengths before Clearwater Stables Dark Peter The topweight Jan Burkes Squared Away with 124 pounds finished two and a half lengths away in third place after setting the early pace but being unable to fend off his younger rivals charge in the stretch stretchJust Just Sidney who is seldom out of the money but invariably seems to stop near the wire showed no such tendencies today As the favorite he returned 640 and sped the distance in 111 over a muddy strip which had been soaked with rains all morning morningThe The race lost much of its interest when the cotopweight and logical favorite Pet Bully unbeaten in his last three starts was scratched along with Candle Wood and the entry of Hi Billee and Stop Gap GapThe The Camden was worth 19950 net of the gross purse of 28600 and ownertrain ¬ er Bill Foales was presented with a trophy by Mayor George Brunner of the nearby city for which the race is named namedBoulmetis Boulmetis Stars StarsIt It was a good day for Boulmetis who was scoring his third of four victories dur ¬ ing the afternoon He won the opener with Stormy Petrel guided William Helis Jrs undefeated Helioscope to his fourth straight victory in the fifth race and took the nightcap on Lovely Wave WaveFor For Just Sidney it was his second victory in six starts this season In his first outing of the year he deadheated Candle Wood at Laurel then ran three seconds and a third before getting to the winners circle again this afternoon afternoonA A blanket could have been thrown over the field as they broke from the gate at the start of the Camden but after a sixteenth Squared Away drew out to a length lead over Just Sidney while Blue Rhymer and Esmero were close followed by Dark Peter Hilarious and Hyphasis Squared Aways lead was challenged as they went into the far turn as Boulmetis sent Just Sidney up on the outside Both Esmero and Blue Rhymer dropped out of it here and Dark Peter moving up behind them had to be steadied steadiedAs As they came around the turn Just Sid ¬ ney and Squared Away were head and head while Hyphasis and Hilarious made their move as a team Coming into the stretch Squared Away who was making his first start since last September was unable to keep going and rapidly dropped back Just Sidney continued to roll along and went under the wire a convincing winner winnerIn In the meantime Dark Peter had moved up and overtook Squared Away to take the place by a large margin having no trouble passing him Squared Away by the same token was clear of Hilarious to retain third honors
