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Flaming Blue Takes Carolina Purse Held Under Steady Drive for Victory Fiddlers Girl and Zealot Account for Minor Portions Of Fiye Furlongs Headliner By FRED GALIANI LINCOLN DOWNS, Lincoln, R. I., May 8.— Para Stables Flaming Blue, under a steady drive from the start, captured the featured Carolina purse here this afternoon, surging to the finish by three-quarters of a length over Dover Stables Fiddlers Girl, while it was the same distance back to L. Testas Zealot. J. and P. Venutis Fran Jr., the favorite, stumbled at the start and finished sixth in the field of seven. Armando Martinez, the Cuban rider, used Flaming Blues hide as a drum, beating out a mambo rhythm all the way in the Carolina Purse. Covering the five furlongs over a fast track in 1:00, Flaming Blue returned 1.40. A crowd of 8,123 turned out on a sunny and chilly afternoon as this meeting nears the end. Won Previously on "Off" Track --The Carolina was a claiming affair for horses of the ,500-6,000 variety. Flaming Blue, a son of Blue Swords — Bonanza Lou, chalked up his only previous score of the year at New Orleans, when he caught a sloppy track. Fran Jr. bobbled at the start but recovered quickly and the entire field was closely aligned as they went down the. back-stretch. Flaming Blue gradually inched out from the straining pack, taking a half length lead. Zealot was a close second on the rail, with Lasting Treat prominent in the early running. Flaming Blues margin was never too much until they had straightened away for the stretch and gone halfway down the abbreviated stretch. Zealot weakened at this point and Flaming Blue drew out while Fiddlers Girl closed in the middle of the track to be second. Norman Mercier got two winners earlier in the day, taking the second race on Zipper and fourth on Plain Jim. In the latter he had to withstand a foul claim, lodged by jockey George Hettinger, who was astride the second horse, Shy Request. Hettinger made his allegation on the insistence of trainer Johnny Dupuy, but the films showed that his horse did the lugging in on Plain Jim, rather than the reverse.
