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Obair Scores Fourth Straight To Remain Unbeaten This Year .Has Three-Length Margin* Over Nahodah in Druid Hill At Pimlico; Rhy Dress Third By PALMER HEAGERTY PIMLICO, Baltimore, Md., May 10. — Accomplishing his fourth successive victory without a defeat this season, Mrs. Colin MacLeods Obair was an easy three-length winner of this afternoons featured Druid Hill Purse, as Montpeliers Preakriess hopeful, .Nahodah, finished a soundly beaten second in the field of eight three-year-olds. Eight lengths farther back came Mrs. Henry H. HechtsRhy Dress, with Roslyn Farms Morning After, also considered a Preakness possibility prior to today, sixth. Two other starters, Flotilla and Prince Raider, were outdistanced as Obair registered time of 1:46% for the mile and one-sixteenth distance. First Attempt at Distance Obair, a sori of Occupation and Fibster, has done everything asked of him this sp-ing. After whipping maidens in his debut, he won two straight allowance races at six furlongs. The Druid Hill marked his initial appearance at more than that distance and the increased route proved well within his capabilities. Despite his blemished record, he was not better than [second choice behind the 9-to-10 Nahodah with the crowd of 8,577 and returned .80 while being eased to the wire by Nick Shuk. Alertly handled at the start, Obair out-sprinted Nahodah and attained the rail position in the running. Nahodah raced with his rival around the first turn and along the backstretch. The Montpelier colt, under Bobby- Martin, made a strong effort to wrest command leaving the half-mile grounds, then steadily gave way as he failed to prove a match for Obair. Shuk, who had won earlier with Dinner Winner, glanced back in early-stretch and when he failed to note a prospstive challenger, eased the MacLeod colt through the final furlong. Mrs. Bayard Sharps Big Comber, who went in the air at the break, Continued on Page Forty-Two Obair Registers Fourth Straight 1956 Success Downs Nahodah by Three Lengths In Druid Hill Purse at Pimlico Continued from Page One wore down weary horses to earn the short end of the purse. Trainer Sandy MacLeod, who enjoyed success this spring with Companas Stables Besomer and who started that colt in the Derby, could find himself in the enviable position of having a "better one in the barn" in the strapping Obair. The latter raced but once last year, finishing unplaced in a maiden affair. Form held up well in the Monumental Purse when Filippo Baldis Dinner Winner was successful as a choice, scoring by a length and a half with, a mile and a sixteenth in 1:46%. In second position was Elvin M. Warners Hand Rewaid, with Mrs. Henry A. Parr m.s Coalport a half length farther back in third position. Mrs. Tilyou Christophers Silver Rab and John V. Thompsons Grand Graphen completed the field, which lost the probable favorite when Roslyn Farms Go Lightly was a late withdrawal. * 35 I Nick Shuk broke Dinner Winner alertly and kept the Economical six-year-old in close attendance to the pace while racing along the inside. When the needed opening on the inside of Hand Reward failed to develop, Shuk eased back to last position and Dinner Winner still was good enough to circle the field and score cleverly. Hand Reward held on well following his slow pacerbut returned in a lame condition. ; [ : i , , ■■ • . I .
