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MyBill B Just Lasts To Beat Fire Fire Fire FireOnly Only Two Half Lengths Separate Entire EightHorse Cahokia Field FieldCAHOKIA CAHOKIA DOWNS East St Louis HI May 3 In a close finish Royse Grahams HyBilTB one of the better twoyearolds to race here last year held on long enough Thursday night to win the featured five furlongs Centralia Purse defeating Frank O Akins favored Fire Fire Fire by a nose The Mikel Farms Vandanell was a half length to the rear of the top two while the remainder of the ninehorse field was lapped at the finish of the dash Eternal Sam was a half length to the rear of the Mikel Farm representative and a nose in front of the faltering Shikari who was a neck before Demon Bo whose ad ¬ vantage at the end was half a length be ¬ fore Bonnie Gains The eighth horse Power Pal was a like distance behind Bonnie Gams and a head before First Four who finished ninth ninthThe The field was so closely lapped that at the end there was only a difference of two and onehalf lengths between the winner and the last horse horseThe The winner making his second start of the year made each postva winning one and he was held under double wraps by apprentice J J Hanley who never had the son of HyBorder more than a head in front of the runnersup He shook off Shikari after a half and when Fire Fire Fire moved to him at the head of the stretch he repelled that challenge in hold ¬ ing on tenaciously to stick his nose in front at the end
