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Bobby Brocato Staunch Favorite in Tanforan - Totes 130 in 7,700 Handicap In Which He Will Meet Six Foes By W. A. WILLIG TANFORAN, San Bruno, Calif., May 11. — The 55-day Tanforan spring meeting comes to a close Saturday with ap rogram of nine races highlighted by the 7,700 Tanforan Handicap for which Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Kerrs Bobby Brocato, top-weighted at 130 pounds, is a one-side favorite. The Tanforan Handicap is a run of a mile and one-eighth and ready to challenge the five-year-old son of Natchez are six horses including his own stablemate, ! Lover Boy. The other six making up the field for the closing-day feature are Louis B. Mayers Alidon, the Sunnyside Stables Beau Bush-er, the Yolo Stables Bezaha, the Glad-Flo Stables Mintaka and Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Lawsons Gipsy Rover. With the exception of Lover Boy, who did not participate in the race„ Bobby Brocato beat all those he will encounter Saturday when he captured the recent running of the San Francisco Handicap and it is logical to suppose that he will do it again. In winning the San Francisco Handicap, which marked his fifth stakes triumph of the year, the Kerr stallion also packed 130 pounds sand in accounting for his victory equalled the track record of 1:42V£ for a mile and. one-sixteenth. Bobby Brocato won by only a length over Bezaha, with Mintaka a bang-up third, but his triumph was more decisive than his winning margin would, suggest. Once he took the lead swinging around the second turn Johnny Longden had little to do to keep in advance of his opponents. Bobby Brocato was the sensation of the Santa Anita meeting during which he accounted for four major events including the Arcadia tracks two 00,000 specials, the Santa Anita Handicap at a mile and one-quarter and the San Juan Capistrano at about a mile and three-quarters. In neither of these features was he ever headed and in the Santa Anita Handicap he led his nearest rival, Turks Delight, under the wire by six lengths.
