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Dancer Dancer Gets Gets 130 130 for for Metropolitan; Metropolitan; Roman Roman Spy Spy Handy Handy Downs Downs Repeater Repeater Rounds Out Saddle Triple for Brooks Odds-On Dixiana Colt Makes Own Pace Throughout Sprint To Beat Joes Crest by Two By DON FAIR Staff-Correspondent CHURCHILL DOWNS, Louisville, Ky May 10. Roman Spy, a quick homebred son of Roman and Mata Hari, carried Charles T. Fishers Dixiana silks to a popular victory here this cloudy and unseasonably cool afternoon in the Douglas Park Purse. Superbly handled by jockey Steve Brooks, who was astride his third straight winning mount, the Dixiana colt streaked to the wire two lengths before his nearest rival Leo J. Caillouettes hard-hitting Joes Crest. Sam E. Wilson, Jr.s Alsab Ace was along for third five lengths away and he was a head in advance of Robert Lancasters OHogan, who saved fourth money in the field of eight second-year racers meeting in the Monday feature. Roman Spy, recently successful in the Kentucky Colonels Purse at the Downs, was a 9 -to-10 choice with the crowd of over 8,000 on hand for the sport. The victor shouldered 117 pounds under the Douglas Park Purse conditions and stepped tne furlongs over the fast six and one-half track in 1:17 . Overtakes OHogan Quickly Starter Reuben Wesley White sent the Douglas Park band out of his gate in a "line break" and OHogan was in front for a few strides but was quickly overtaken by Roman Spy. During the run to the stretch OHogan remained within striking distance of the flying Dixiana colt while Brown Hotel Stables Uncased was a steady tmra and Joes Crest occupied fourth position. Turning into the home lane, Roman Spy retained a clear margin over OHogan, who displayed signs of having had enough and it was Joes Crest, who offered the ultimate winner the sternest test through the final furlong. Brooks mildly urged the sixteenth mile Roman Spy passing marker then permitted his mount to coast home safely, repulsing Joes Crests game but futile bid. ,. , Alsab Ace, outrun in the earlier stages, finished well enough to show but he was Continued on Page Forty-Five Roman Spy Gains Popular Repeat Victory at Downs Gives Jockey Brooks Triple and Trainer Hodgins Double on Card Continued from Page One no match for the top pair while OHogan, weary from forcing Roman Spys early pace, wound up a tiring fourth. Jack C. Hodgins, Dixiana trainer, completed a double, having saddled Fulvous for that fillys triumph, in the preceding Mocking Bird Purse. Thomas M. Girdlers Gambetta spotted five other two-year-old fillies weight and raced to her third straight and fourth success in six starts while capturing the Orchid .Purse. Gambetta, recent winner of the Debutante Stakes, responded to a hustling ride from jockey Steve Brooks through the stretch after she had made a quick early pace and lasted to beat the G and G Stables Timely Story by a half-length margin. Ernest H. Lanes Top Fair, outrun during the earlier stages, was along for third, a length and one-half off Timely Story and four lengths on Taylorcrest Farms Me Perfect, who salvaged fourth money in the five-furlong dash. Gambetta, a homebred daughter of My Babu, posted her third local victory while carrying 122 pounds burden over the firm strip in a commendable :59. The Girdler miss was favored in the straight pool at 7 to 10. Jockey Brooks came right back in the Mocking Bird Purse to score a driving accounting with Fulvous, a four-year-old Spy Song-sired filly, who races under the buff and solferino colors of Miss Mary V. Fisher. Making her first appearance since Hialeahs Columbiana Handicap, Fulvous wore down Warner L. Jones, Jr.s Lillal, the early pacemaker, and reached the. final marker with a head advantage. Two and one-half lengths back of the lapped leaders, Martin and McKinneys Night Phara gave an even performance to garner third honors and she was but a head before Fred R. W. Stolps Black Main, fourth in the band of seven fillies and mares meeting in the sprint. Fulvous, clocked in 1:11 for the three-quarters mile, was -second choice to the favored Lillal at 29 to 10.
