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Mrs Hellen Carries Off Top Honors at Lincoln LincolnSprints Sprints to Impressive Victory In First Appearance of Season SeasonLINCOLN LINCOLN DOWNS Lincoln R I May 2 Another of Mclvors Pricketts South Carolina brigade came back in powerful form this afternoon as his threeyearold filly Mrs Hellen scored an impressive vic ¬ tory in the featured Kent Purse Making her first start since last June Mrs Hellen towroped her field leading Nature Trail Stables Nature Trail by a length and threequarters M L Wilsons Denver King who set the early pace finished an ¬ other length and a half back Mrs Hellen was ridden by George Gibb and paid 460 as the favorite with the crowd of 7566 The daughter of Noble Creek Queen Ad ¬ vice covered the five furlongs over the fast strip in 101 It was a bright sunny afternoon but there was a strong wind whipping across the infield most of the day dayMrs Mrs Hellen won her first two starts as a juvenile last year by daylight margins but finished eighth behind Beauguerre and Melson in the Bay State Kindergarten Stakes which proved to be her swan song for the year She spent the winteFat her owners farm in St Matthews S C and andCoftiMiW CoftiMiW M Pegt FortyWire Mrs Hellen Carries Off Top Honors at Lincoln LincolnSprints Sprints to Impressive Victory In First Appearance of Season SeasonContinued Continued from Page Eight Eightemulated emulated her stablemate Motor Line by coming right back in fine fettle Trainer Jimmy Rankin is batting 1000 thus far at the meeting sending out two horses and both coming back to the winners circle Pricketts horses are stabled at Suffolk Downs DownsThe The brown almost black appearing filly with a big star on her forehead broke alertly under Gibb but he let Burr W and Denver King battle it out in the early part of the race Denver King eventually took over the lead but Mrs Hellen was well placed on the outside in third position positionMidway Midway of the turn in the short sprint Gibb turned the filly loose and in a few flashing strides she was up with the lead ¬ ers and past them Rounding the final arc for home Gibb Kit her a few times with the bat and she bounded away As he had done with Motor Line the other day Gibb snugged his mount going under the finish line thus reducing the winning margin Nature Trail who had been running fourth most of the way closed well in the middle of the track to be second over Denver King who held on to be third
