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Apprentice Terry Murphy Astride Fairmount Triple Pilots Dream Beauty, Joeys Dream And Go Jeep Go to Winners Ring By J. J. HAHN Staff Correspondent FAIRMOUNT PARK, Collinsville, 111., June 11.— Apprentice Terry Murphy, a 19-year-old reinsman from nearby Marshall, 111., stole the show here Friday night by winning with three of his mounts before 5,751 fans and going into a tie with several other saddlesmiths who have performed the feat at this meeting. The youngster started out by winning the "double" events but after sitting out the third and fourth races came back and copped the fifth. He also had mounts in the eighth and ninth but failed to finish in the money in the former but put up a stirring ride in the nightcap to finish third. Murphy started working on his triple in the first race when he drove home Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Tripletts Dream Beauty, second choice in the betting. The veteran nine-year-old mare won by a pair of lengths from Hy Pinkie, a field horse, which was in the van until the last few jumps. John Albert finished third, while Hab, the public choice, saving ground all the way, failed to race to the expectations of his many supporters. The Illinois youngster completed the "double" with Joeys Dream, a maiden, who won the one mile and a sixteenth second race. Murphy kept the three-year-old daughter of Gray Dream under steady restraint the first five-eighths and just before hitting the head of the stretch applied the whip to his mount and she readily responded drawing into a good lead midway the stretch. In the final run she was a pair of lengths before Resurrect. Mr. Hash, the favorite, was third. Daily Double players received the second smallest pay-off of the meeting when the "Murphy-won" events returned only 3.60. Murphy had a nice easy ride on his third success, handling Earl Burwells odds-on choice, Go Jeep Go for that veteran campaigners score in the fifth. The gelded son of War Jeep made each post a winning one and was eased at the end to win by a pair of lengths, the same distances as the first two winners handled by Murphy. Probably the best race on the Friday racing menu was the fourth, a dash at four and one-half furlongs and in which eight of the best juveniles here matched strides. The winner came from the locally-owned and Texas-bred filly, Alma Deck, who was winning her second straight since coming into the hands of the Silver Creek Farm. Alma Deck, ridden by James Duff, won from flag to flag and pulled up winning by more than five lengths.
