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Open Sesame in Popular Victory at Laurel Course CourseDefeats Defeats Ocean Lane to Complete Double for Walter M Jeffords JeffordsBy By PALMER HEAGERTY HEAGERTYLAUREL LAUREL Md April 30 The popular green and white striped silks of Walter M Jeffords were carried to their second suc ¬ cess of the afternoon when the good mare Open Sesame scored a popular victory in the featured Kenwood Country Club Purse witnessed by a crowd of 9391 North Downs Farms Ocean Lane was along in time to earn the second portion of the purse three lengths off the winner and a length and onehalf clear of John M Lees God Child ChildThe The victory which was worth 340 to backers of the successful Mahmoud Magic Lily fiveyearold also was the second of the afternoon for both Oscar White the trainer and jockey Tony DeSpirito The ownertrainerjockey combination had pre ¬ viously accounted for the third race a maiden twoyearold affair with the Djeddah War Hysteria colt Kiptopeke KiptopekeConffnued Conffnued on Page FortyEight Open Sesame Wins Laurel Feature FeatureCompletes Completes Jeffords Stable Double With Kiptopeke on Top in Earlier Offering OfferingContinued Continued from Page One OneOpen Open Sesame who is expected to see con ¬ siderable action in forthcoming stakes events for fillies and mares was timed in a commendable 144 144Unlike Unlike her recent seasonal bow in which she was beaten almost four lengths when unplaced behind Go Lightly Open Sesame was rather close to the pace today She was not hurried however and dropped from second to fourth position in the run along the backstretch as Cecil Fischbachs High Ore drove through along the inside to chal ¬ lenge God Child for supremacy supremacyDeSpirito DeSpirito kept Open Sesame on the out ¬ side of the field and when he roused her midway of the final turn there was little doubt as to the outcome She looped her field to be two in the van at the furlong marker Thereafter she was under mild hand urging and increased her lead to three lengths at the wire wireDrives Drives Through in Stretch StretchOcean Ocean Lane drove between horses dur ¬ ing the stretch run to outfinish the others as God Child continued on gamely and out finished Mrs H A Parr HEs Coalport the second choice who had engaged the leader a quarter of a mile out only to give way under urging urgingThe The victory aside from being popular with the crowd also was quite pleasing to trainer White There is a possibility that Open Sesame will be a starter in Satur ¬ days 15000 added Laurel Handicap though it is expected that the Jeffords forces will go with Subahdar who has been asked to carry 120 pounds in his seasonal debut
