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j Money Broker Closes With Good Speed To Beat Fair Pilot in Alger Memorial I Prevails by Almost a Length4 To Give Baird Third Saddle Success; 27,383 View Card By DON FAIR Staff Correspondent By DON FAIR Staff Correspondent DETROIT RACE COURSE, Livonia, Mich., May 31. Money Broker, a speedy four-year-old son of Half Crown and Chartreuse n., carried the silks of the Detroit sportsmen, T. Alie Grissom and Edward jGrosfield, to a well-deserved victory here this sunny afternoon in the twentieth running of the 5,Q00 F. M. Alger Memorial Handicap. Splendidly ridden by jockey Robert Lee Baird, who was astride his third winning mount on the holiday card, Money Broker came with a rush through the stretch and nipped I. J. Collins Fair Pilot by three-quarters of a length for major honors in the six-furlong stake. Ivan D. Peats fine mare, Sun Tan Gal, who set the pace to the final furlong, ran third a length off the lapped leaders and a similar margin , before Theodore D. Buhls Second Avenue. Money Broker, who carried equal high weight of 122pounds with the favored Phil D., sped the three-quarters mile over the fast but slightly dull strip in 1:12. The motor city-owned colt was second choice at 41-to-10 and he picked up 1,575. Immediately after the finish of the holiday stake, Mrs. Harold R. Boyer, wife of a Michigan Racing Association director and daughter of the late Colonel Alger, presented owners Grosfield and Grisson with a handsome silver trophy. Phil D., recent winner of the Motor City Handicap, was never a serious contender in the Alger and did no better than eighth, apparently disliking his 122-pound burden. Bairds clever handling of Money Broker was a contributing factor to the latter colts success. After losing his whip at the start of the sprint, the Huntsville, Texas, reins-man used all his skill in hustling the G and G star to.the Alger accounting. Although showers fell throughout most of the morning hours in the Motor City Continued on Page Forty -Four Money Broker Successful In Alger at Detroit Track Baird Aboard for Third Winner On Card; 27,383 in Attendance Continued from Page One area, the sun broke through before the field for the initial event was called to the post, and a holiday throng of 27,383 witnessed the sport. The crowd surpassed that of last season by 676 patrons, a figure quite pleasing to president E. E. Dale Shaffer and his Detroit Race Course associates. Tamarack Stables Bright Shoes a gelded son of Radiate n., and New Shoes, raced to a surprising triumph in the six-furlong Algonac Lions Purse, one of the better offerings on the program. Finishing strongly when set down through the stretch by Jockey Harold "Red" Keene, the Tamarack Stable representative hit the finish with a length to spare over William L. Huntley, Jrs. hard-charging Bills Captain, who was a neck before Leo Edwards well-regarded Blenfly. C. D. Boyds Run Red Run, favorite in the field of six starters, lasted for fourth after displaying early speed. Bright Shoes, favorably weighted at 110 pounds under the Algonac Lions Purse conditions, raced the three-quarters mile over the firm footing in 1:12 and, one of the longer-priced horses in the race, returned straight pool backers 83 to 10. Apprentice Johnny Rotz handled his second winner of the day, hustling Duntreath Farms Sails to a half-length verdict in the one mile and one-sixteenth fifth. Sails, a seven-year-old Pilate-sired mare, made all the pace and withstood a long drive to beat J. T. Nathans Colymbus, who began rather poorly. Paddock Stables Prince Consort ran third, four and one-half lengths ff the lapped leaders while M. L. Stuckers it o A s Work Done salvaged fourth money in the field of six starters. I Theodore D. Buhls Astounding, benefited by an unusually well-judged ride from 1 Carroll Bierman, trimmed nine other better ! grade platers in the six-furlong fourth race. Steadied while racing within striking distance of the leaders to the stretch, Astounding was then sent to the middle of the track and, responding willingly to Biermans hustling tactics, disposed of MacGregor and Arnolds Brooky and drew out to a two and one-half lengths decision. Myron Smiths Sheriff Grosch, a keen contender the entire trip, was a close third while Duntreath Farms Bit o Whiz was along for fourth.
