Le Beau Prince Coasts To Fourth Win in Row: Gray French-Bred Colt Delights Favorite Players at Jamaica, Daily Racing Form, 1956-05-01

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Le Beau Prince Coasts To Fourth Win in Row RowGray Gray FrenchBred Colt Delights Favorite PJayers at Jamaica JamaicaBy By BOB HORWOOD HORWOODJAMAICA JAMAICA L I N Y April 30 De ¬ lighting the favorite players in the crowd of 24597 that turned out hae this sunny afternoon Cockfield StablesHbe Beau Prince completely outclassed the seven who opposed him in the sixfurlong South Shore Purse With Bill Boland sitting still through the stretch the gray son of Fontenay coasted smoothly to the finish four widen ¬ ing lengths before Walter S Homes Fini ¬ cal who led Brae Burn Farms Minute Parade another four and a half lengths Spring Hill Farms Aegean Sea was another two lengths out of the money Le Beau Prince returned 250 the shortest payoff of the meeting as he kept his American record spotless with four victories in as many starts The Frenchbred was clocked the six furlongs in 112 excellent time over the dead track the speedy Black Rec ¬ ord having been beaten in 113 13 in the previous race A candidate for Saturdays 50000 Westchester Handicap at a mile and a furlong Le Beau Prince worked out a mile in 1 40 eased up after getting seven furlongs in 125 125Le Le Beau Prince was again tested this time being asked to race inside of horses Sixth away from the gate Le Beau Prince moved between horses to take a momentary lead between calls nearing the far turn but Boland sat still while Night Bell moved up on the outside and headed him Finical was a fairly close third in the run around the turns to the stretch stretchCurving Curving for home Boland let out a notch notchContinued Continued on Fags Six Le Beau Prince Coasts To Fourth Win in Row RowGray Gray FrenchBred Colt Delights Favorite Players at Jamaica JamaicaContinued Continued from Page One Oneand and Le Beau Prince bounded into the lead while Finical made a move at him on the outside Boland shook his stick beside the left side of the gray fouryearolds head just once and he drew away with the great ¬ est of ease though finishing with his ears pinned back flat against his head headOnce Once he saw that he had no chance of beating the favorite Eddie Arcaro eased Finical who was making his seasonal debut a little but was not menaced by Minute Parade who was coupled with the winner Aegean Sea ran an even race while Night Bell stopped badly finishing seventh in the field of nine nineIn In his previous start Ted Atkinson al ¬ lowed Le Beau Prince to race with his horses in the early stages of that mile and onesixteenth but was on the outside while today the gray showed a willingness to race inside of horses which not all thoroughbreds are eager to do doAnother Another Grey Lag candidate Valley Farms Impasse won the Cedarhurst Purse in precisely the same time as Le Beau Prince 112 and worked out a mile in the same way seven furlongs in 125 and mile in 140 He was ridden out for the seven panels and eased up the mile With Jimmy Combest hustling him along Impasse came from far back on the out ¬ side to turn back Morris Sims favored Blessbull in the final sixteenth and tri ¬ umph by two lengths going away under pressure Pin Oak Farms War and Peace was less than a length farther back in third place and two lengths before Mrs Phil Biebers Bicarb Impasse who seems to have regained his best form of a couple of years ago paid 730


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