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« ; » ■ " n ie ie te e» l" ie . * ie " _ *J • he 1 - no . 34 . i ■ " fS 1« for or an ■ the *e ?e s- r- id the ie ry E. E. of of ve Ring King Carries Rice Silks to Pimlico Tally Overtakes Penocc in Closing Yards With Norman Cox Aboard E By JOE HIRSCH PIMLICO, Baltimore, Md., May 13.— Mrs. S. Ada L. Rices Ring King got up in the final ,i " yards of the featured Balko Purse this is drizzly afternoon to edge Mrs. Chester ■ Lyons favored Penocc a neck with Mrs. s. Dorothy N. Lees Belmont Breeze another r length and a half back for the minor ; award. Penocc led for much of the route but was unable to stave off the winners s relentless drive along the rail. The winner, making his first start of f the campaign, returned 6.40 and was IS clocked in 1:11% for the six panels. A A light rain fell throughout the afternoon, a with 9,163 on hand for the program. The winner carried 123 pounds, mostly Norman n Cox, who was registering his second tally iv of the day. Ring King is a four-year-old Alsab geld-,e , l" ing from a Heliopolis mare who won three -e races and earned close to 0,000 in 1954. 4 He went unplaced in the Preakness last ; season and closed his campaign with an n undistinguished effort at Laurel in October. - Songai was first from the gate in the ie feature with Penocc just a shade farther ;r back, and then taking command to show w the way down the far side. It was head ,£ and head to the turn as Penocc was un-able l- to draw away from Songai. Curving ie for home, Penocc now enjoyed a solid lead, d but Cox was moving past horses with Ring B King. Entering the stretch, Penocc led by two ° at the eighth pole as Cox used all his skill ill to drive Ring King to the leader. The win-ner V" breasted Penocc inside the sixteenth marker and just managed to draw ahead w with yards remaining for the tally. Justin Funkhousers Noble Song closed id with a tremendous rush down the middle le of the strip in the sixth race to nip Charles es Coburns front-running favorite Coburns s Wish a thrusting neck at the wire. Another j. nose back in the blanket finish was *" , _ Adelray Stables Rayson Jett. Phil Grimm, the hard-hitting apprentice, *■ brought Noble Song home to return 31 2.60 for his fourth victory of the campaign. 1- A three -year-old Noble Impulse se gelding, he was raced in New England this is spring, then shipped to Laurel and won his is last outing there. The winner was timed *d in 1:13 for the six furlongs. Coburns Wish roared from the gate and ,rt 5 almost stole the whole thing. He was five 7* lengths in front midway of the backstretch » and three to the good of Rayson Jett as the ie field curved for home. Noble Song was as always in good position, in the van of the ie second flight, but as they straightened for rr the wire, Coburns Wish appeared alone. Rayson Jett moved to the leader in the ie final furlong and then just before the wire Oliver Cutshaw dropped him to the inside ie of Coburns Wish. But the move failed as Noble Song closed quickest of all and got ot up in the final strides for the tally. Go Girl and Basin Street collaborated In to pay 12.60 in the Daily Double.
