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LEONARD HUNT Saddled Rapid Song for her winning effort at Jamaica Rapid Song Comes On Again In Final Stride for Decision RipperDo on Short End of Nose Verdict at Jamaica 79522 Witness Program ProgramBy By BOB HORWOOD HORWOODJAMAICA JAMAICA L L N May 1 The most exciting finish and probably the best field of thoroughbreds on this offday program were provided in the fifth event a dash for juvenile fillies Coming again in the very last stride after appearing beaten one jump out Mrs Harry B Masseys Rapid Song the oddson choice with the throng of 19522 nosed out Barclay Stables Rip ¬ perDo at the end of five furlongs in 101 on a dead track that appeared at least a second slower than usual for the distance It was another five lengths back to Wheat ley Stables Secret Story a firsttime starter by Spy Song who led Frank C Rand Jrs Lead Story by a length and a half Rapid Song was ridden by Jimmy Nichols and paid 350 The daughter of Spy Song fronv Fleet Ship by Count Fleet who was a 9000 yearling purchase from Mrs John D Hertz was scoring her second straight at the meeting after having finished third once in four starts in Florida FloridaFourteen Fourteen Carat was first away from the gate at the start of this baby race closely followed in the run to the far turn by Secret Session and Miss Blackbird with RipperDo another length behind followed by Rapid Song who was more than a length farther back Fourteen Carat ran out of speed after a quarter leaving Miss Black ¬ bird to enjoy a brief lead over Secret Ses ¬ sion while Ripper Do began moving up rapidly on the rail and Rapid Song sailed to the leaders on the extreme outside Secret Story was still far back leaving the threefurlong pole with Lead Story just a head in front of her herLady Lady Joy Buckjumps Again AgainNearing Nearing the quarter pole Lady Joy who had been eased in the Rosedale Stakes when she began buck jumping did the same thing for a few strides while far out of conten ¬ tion This time Hedley Woodhouse induced her to resume such running as she was able to do which was very little littleStraightening Straightening for the run to the wire Rapid Song took command and appeared about to draw away to the sort of triumph expected of an oddson choice but Dave Gorman called on RipperDo who drove at the favorite along the rail getting her head in front just inside the sixteenth pole and appearing about to draw away as the two charged past the infield and odds board Jimmy Nichols found another ounce or two of effort in Rapid Song right at the wire and the bay filly came on again to regain a couple of inches of lead from her smaller rival in the last desperate lunge lungeSamuel Samuel Finkelsteins Challite and Stella G Stecklers Star Studded combined for a lucrative 40710 Daily Double A parlay on the same pair would have returned only 12960 Ted Atkinson rode Challite who was rather lucky to score by almost a length over Kay Jensens Birch Brook Challite paid 1620 straight after stagger ¬ ing the six furlongs in 114 over the dead track Star Studded rushed into command from the outside soon after the start of the fivefurlong second event and triumphed by five lengths over Mrs Frank Doughertys Nibonny with Willie Lester scuffing mildly through the stretch Star Studded who had been up the track in her three starts at Hialeah returned 16 and was clocked in 101 101Laudy Laudy Lawrences Beau Diable the odds on choice in the Locust Valley Purse did his best to lose the mile and a sixteenth event digging his toes in and dropping back to last place when Hedley Wood house whipped him right handed at the far turn Woodhouse switched his stick to the other side and went to work in earnest and the son of Devil Diver re ¬ sponded at once surging into command on the outside turning for home but had to stand a sustained drive to turn back the closing rush of C T Chenerys Third Brother by a neck Don S Kobes Devilish Duke was a length and a half farther back after lacking his usual early speed while it was 10 long lengths back to Ogden Phipps Point of Order Beau Diable who had finished second to Le Beau Prince last out and won his two previous starts in Florida paid 370 and stepped the distance in 146
