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♦ Aging Assignment Scores at Suffolk Takes Mile and 70 Yards Melrose Purse Under Coy For Second Straight Win By FRED GALIANI SUFFOLK DOWNS. East Boston, Mas?.. May 11. — J. Wimpfheimers Assignment, an eight-year-old gelding who held his own i with top notch horses in his younger days, j showed some of the old class with a driving | victory in the Melrose Purse, the best event | on an all claiming card. It was his second straight victory. Assignment scored three lengths over Johnny Neruds Principio, who also came from off the pace, while V, Smola and J. Bess Kentucky Home held on to be third. Assignment, was ridden by Alfonso Coy for his second victory of the afternoon and returned .20. The pair covered the mile and 70 yards in 1:42 2/5. Coy had won second race with Dawty, then came a cropper in the fourth when he tumbled from Gould Surprise in the gate right before the start. He was unhurt except for a cut on his cheek and came back to ride out the afternoon. Assignment, still capable in the proper slot, won for a ,000 tag this afternoon, while previously he had romped by 10 in a ,500 starter allowance race. It was his second triumph in six starts this season. Hook Up in Early Duel Kentucky Home and Evas Trance1 hooked up in a duel right from the start, j with Prissy Missy and Assignment another compact team right behind In the early running, as Teacake, Principio and Tape j Reader followed in that order. The cast varied not a whit in the run down the backstretch but just as they hit the half j mile pole, Assignment and Prissy Missy j moved up to the pacemaking pair and the four of them were locked in a head and head struggle. The formation stayed that way until midway of the turn, when Evas Trance got caught in the jam and had to take up, filling out of the picture, and Prissy Missy soon after gave way. Assignment took command from Kentucky Home, while Principio closed -ground from his rear position. Down the stretch Assignment was kept about his business by Coy and had a daylight margin over Principio, whose belated challenge was not good enough. Kentucky Home was third by a safe margin.
