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Swoons Son in Auspicious Return to Racing Wars WarsWhips Whips Sea 0 Erin Invalidate In Churchill Downs Handicap HandicapBy By CHARLES HATTON HATTONCHURCHILL CHURCHILL DOWNS Louisville Ky May 2 Swoons Son gave 12500 Derby Week visitors a good show this blue arid golden afternoon when he began his four yearold campaign as he concluded his 1956 term in victory under top weight of 128 pounds in a stake Shaking off chal ¬ lenge after challenge E Gay Drakes re ¬ splendent bay the Toy Bulldog of his generation won an enormously popular and hardearned success in the seven fur ¬ longs of the 12000 Churchill Downs Han ¬ dicap The familiar Dave Erb brought him to the stand a stubborn half length in ad ¬ vance of Hasty House Farms Sea O Erin as the latter beat the fastclosing light ¬ weight Invalidate a neck for the place Mrs Irving Gushens Star Rover was wasContinued Continued on Page Fortyfight Swoons Son Impressive in 57 Bow BowN N Equableu Jamaica Winner by Length Holds HalfLength Edge on Sea O Erin ErinKeeps Keeps Victory Skein Going In Accounting For Churchill Handicap Under 128 Pounds PoundsContinued Continued from Page One Onelapped lapped on them in fourth position in what was a carefully thoughtout handicap handicapSwoons Swoons Son earned a gross of 8500 and a net of 8375 for his efforts while re ¬ turning his many admirers 320 in the toteJ He hustled over the seven furlongs in a creditable 124 124Lex Lex Wilson who conditions the intelli ¬ gent son of The Doge and acquitted him ¬ self well to have the horse so fit for a hard race was all smiles as Erb returned to the winners enclosure John Cella of Oaklawn Park presented ownerbreeder Drake the Churchill Downs Handicap Tro ¬ phy in brief ceremonies before the colts large cheering section sectionThreat Threat to Handicap Ranks Swoons Son one of the outstanding threeyearolds a year ago indicated that he will have something pertinent to say of the honors in the handicap ranks by the style of his success in this engagement He left his opponents including several splen ¬ did handicappers with no visible excuses in the manner in which the race was run Breaking from an outer position he was quickest to begin and always appeared to have something left as he shook off Star Rover and held Sea O Erin at bajr in the run to and into the turn They left 4he backstretch head and head with Erb riding with supreme confidence confidenceIn In the stretch run SwoonsSon was not unduly punished with the whip but cheer ¬ fully was giving of his best without this agent as he held off the attack of Sea O Erin the last yards Closing with a belated run Invalidate was third while Star Rover hung on to be fourth even though beaten E GAY DRAKE Ownerbreeder of ofSwoonV SwoonV Son winner of the Churchill ChurchillDowns Downs Handicap yesterday
