Pearson Mount Finishes Second at Ascot Course: Limekiln Bows to Tom G. After Leading by Three in Stretch, Daily Racing Form, 1956-05-03

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Pearson Mount Finishes Second at Ascot Course CourseLimekiln Limekiln Bows to Tom G After Leading by Three in Stretch StretchBy By W A CRUSE CRUSEASCOT ASCOT PARK Cuyahoga Falls Ohio May 2 Another cold damp rainy day was in order for the 4236 fans on hand for this afternoons racing program The strip as a result of a steady rain from the early hours to well past post time for the first race left the track averitable sea of slop and mud mudBill Bill Pearson the jockey who took down the top laurels in the famous 64000 Question in the category of art rode Limekiln in the race named after him the Bill Pearson Purse For a while it looked as though Bill had the deal sewed up as it were as he broke on top then held the Alabama horse together as long as pos ¬ sible only to wind up a short head behind Tom G and jockey Donald Tobin Tom G races in the interest of the estate of C A ONeill Jr and is trained by E E New NewContinued Continued on Page Twelve Pearson Mount Finishes Second at Ascot Course CourseLimekiln Limekiln Bows to Tom G After Leading by Three in Stretch StretchContinued Continued irony Page One OneLimekiln Limekiln is owned by Mrs C M Kelley KelleyAfter After the races here this afternoon Pearson will return to New York and par ¬ ticipate in the 64000 Challenge show Sunday from that city He also stated that he hopes to get back to his home in Cal ¬ ifornia shortly but has such an extremely busy schedule that an exact departure date cannot be set setJockey Jockey Norman Hart rode his third win ¬ ner of the first four races on the card when he piloted Mr and Mrs P Max ¬ wells Jack Carroll to victory in the fourth event A front running affair with repeated challenges to the eighth pole Hart had the Jack High gelding two and one half lengths the best of his closest rival D P Hagar mans You Say and jockey John Rivera The time for the mile and one sixteenth was an extremely dull 203 Hart became the first rider at this old meeting to ride both ends of the Daily Double The 22 year old reinsman was astride Mr and Mrs Pete Maxwells Grand Cella in the opener and was astride B A Homers Bad News for that ones victory in the second secondAs As a fourtofour sequence the Double was worth 4160


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