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i Connecticut Cap Finale at Lincoln Deep Thought, Pipe of Peace Seek Championship of Meet; Card Special Juvenile Sprint By ELI CHIAT LINCOLN DOWNS, Lincoln, R. I., May 11. — The handicap championship of this 49-day storm-battered session will be decided Saturday when Mrs. Rose V. Robi-doues Deep Thought and J. and P. Venutis Pipe of Peace hook up in the 0,000 Connecticut Day Handicap as Lincoln Downs concludes its 1956 racing season. There will be a hiatus of 36 days before the thoroughbreds return to Rhode Island with the start of the summer meeting at neighboring Narragansljtt Park scheduled for opening on Monday, June 25. In the meantime, the New England racing agenda moves over to Suffolk Downs next Monday where the Eastern Racing Association will conduct a 36-day meeting. Deep Thought, who will carry the top impost of 120 pounds, two more than assigned to Pipe of Peace, is being given a slight edge in the betting odds. It is expected that the Robidoue colorbearer will attract the fancy of the 25,000 fans expected here Saturday off his impressive fourth in the 0,000-added Lincoln Special. In that event he was beaten slightly I over five lengths by the top handicap stars of the country, namely Joe Jones, Find and "War Command. And he was good enough I I to get up in time to neck out Jet Action for the last money, position. Scored in Two Handicaps Previously at this session, Deep Thought had accounted for the Newport and Springfield handicaps. In his Springfield victory, over the mile and one-sixteenth distance, same as will be contested tomorrow, the ebony son of Destino was going away to a length and one-half triumph over Burnt Child, while Pipe of Peace finished fourth. He will pick up eight pounds from his Special endeavor but will be carrying the same poundage he toted in his Springfield score. Prior to arriving here, Deep Thought sewed up handicap honors at Sunshine Park by winning three handicaps there, while shattering a pair of track records at the Tampa course. His regular pilot Norman Mercier again will have the saddle chores. Pipe of Peace has also annexed a pair of handicap victories at this session, both of them coming in the feature events the past two Saturdays. Last week he scored in the seven furlongs New London, while the previous week end saw him take down top honors in the mile and one-sixteenth of the Hartford Handicap. He appears to have reached his peak form and while having been beaten off by Deep Thought in previous engagements, indications point to a stern tussle between the two top weights in the Connecticut. Jockey Harold Keene will handle Pipe of Peace. Waldo D. Andrews Burnt Child, who has been runner-up to both Deep Thought and Continued on Page Forty-Nine Connecticut Gap Finale at Lincoln Deep Thought, Pipe of Peace Seek Championship of Meet; Card Special Juvenile Sprint Continued from Page Thte* Pipe of Peace in. previous handicap engagements, enjoys a favorable shift of weights which may see him upsetting the choices. His assignment tomorrow is only 110 pounds and, could prove a stubborn foe under these conditions. He has drawn the services of the veteran Claude Hooper. Charles Lawrences Opera Light, upset winner of the Bridgeport Handicap when he led home Double Bid, Pipe of Peace, Burnt Child,- Double Choice and Deep Thought, must be given more than an outside chance if in a running mood. He will carry 111 pounds, two more than his poundage in the Bridgeport. Double Choice at 113 The remainder of the nine-horse field scheduled to contest the Connecticut Day Handicap are Jim Carrs Double Choice, 113; G. B. Cirionis Double Bid, 107j White Fence Stables Acepot, 105; Red Head Stables. Roedna, 105, and Felix Poncelets Emotion, 104. In an attempt to present one of the finest racing programs of the meeting, racing secretary Gordon Moxtow wrote a special race for the promising crop of two-year-olds on the grounds. The sub-feature on the card will be the Juvenile with a purse of ,000 and it has attracted the best youngsters seen under colors so far. Six of the 11 entrants for this five-furlong .. dash Ivave already visited the winners circle while several of the others have been close up. Cataula Farms Beauguerrer winner of his only "two starts; F. J. Nallys Melson, also winner of two, and Valley View Farms high-priced yearling, Sleeping Tiger, head the band of youngsters. Others named for this event are Man Charge, Pair Swords, Nancarol, Fast Cable, "Kumac, Danger Cue and Challefont.
