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Eternal Mark Overcomes Trouble7 Drives to Win WinDowns Downs Emotion by Neck Rodman Gives Way After Getting to Front FrontBy By FRED GALIANI GALIANILINCOLN LINCOLN DOWNS Lincoln R I April 30 Overcoming trouble going into the far turn A A Carbbes Eternal Mark came through with a strong drive in the stretch to down F M Poncelets Emotion by a neck in the featured Greenville Purse here j this afternoon Five lengths in back of the embattled duo came Tee Pee Stables Rod ¬ man a 60 to 1 shot in the field of seven who had the lead for a brief exciting mo ¬ ment in the early stretch stretchLucien Lucien Parent who won the opener on Jakablom rode Eternal Mark getting the mare home under 106 pounds Eternal Mark was good for 1940 to her backers in the crowd of 10137 who turned out on a sunny but quite blustery afternoon afternoonEternal Eternal Marks time for the seven fur ¬ longs was 128 over a track termed slow the condition of the strip having prog ¬ ressed from its heavy state in the early part of the day X He avy rains fell Sunday accounting for the off track trackEternal Eternal Mark was winning her first race in five starts this season and her first over the local strip She had been running against stakes opposition at Hialeah this past winter although without too much success successJillion Jillion Barels a horse with a high turn of speed but seldom ever able to carry it all the way cut out the early running of the Greenville and held a daylight lead over Arts Boy and Emotion going down the backstretch Eternal Mark was a close fourth with Rodman right there while Indian Smoke and Amyn Bey trailed the field fieldGoing Going into the turn Eternal Mark had to be taken up when she ran into a pocket and Rodman and Arts Boy closed in on Jillion Barels The latter had it as they straightened into the stretch and Rodman took command for a brief flash while Arts Boy who was on the rail also started to drop back backRodmans Rodmans lead was short lived as Emo ¬ tion swept past him but Parent now had Eternal Mark on the outside and the five yearold mare was coming fast She hooked Emotion in the last couple of yards and re ¬ lentlessly wore down the younger filly fillyAlthough Although her margin was only a neck the fact that she was making her first start since September and the trouble she en ¬ countered minimizes the closeness of that margin
