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Rockcastle Overhauls Favored Motor Line in Stretch for Lincoln Repeat Leone Runner Withstands Rough Trip in Near Length Score Double Bid Third ThirdBy By FRED GALIANI LINCOLN DOWNS Lincoln R I May 4 It might not have been the Kentucky Derby but todays featured West Spring ¬ field Purse produced a rousing horse race and at the finish two of New Englands top handicap horses were onetwo as Mrs Joseph Leones Rockcastle and Mclyor Pricketts Motor Line finished Jhreequar ters of a length apart j Rockcastle scoring his second straight j victory on the comeback trail carried 109 pounds and was getting 12 from his rival but won with consummate authority under Warren Lane covering the seven furlongs in l26 A length and three quarters back was P and B Ciripnis Double Bid who set the pace and finished third before Peter Fullers Glen Alden AldenRockcastle Rockcastle paid5 to win and everything else on the board was posted a 220 as Motor Line was an oddson choice and the Leone standard bearer was 3 to 2 2crowd crowd of 19132 turned out on awarm and at times sunny afternoon to see the Leone fiveyearold son of Fervent Fair Columbia win his second straight in his tenth start of the year The strapping huge Rockcastle showed that he has regained the form that saw him win the Yankee Handicap before being injured in the sub ¬ sequent Roamer Cap and sidelined until this winter Rockcastle made six starts in winter under the tutelage of Jack Skirvin who helped bring him back into peak con ¬ dition and has won his two races under the training of his owner A Methuen Mass man manMotor Motor Line making his second start of the year following an easy sortie earlier in the week was by no means disgraced in the West Springfield Carrying top weight of 121 pounds under the conditions he was mixed in a jam at the first utrn in which he was hit by Glen Alden and in turn bumped Rpckcastle then was brushed when the tiring Double Bid drifted out in front of him in the stretch stretchBoth Both Rockcastle arid Motor Line will be back in the 50000 Lincoln Special on clos ¬ ing day at a mile and a sixteenth sixteenthOclirock Oclirock got out of the gate first in the feature event with Double Bid and Glen Alden right after him In the short run to the first turn Double Bid got control of the lead and as they went into the arc Motor Line was hit and sent off balance He in turn bumped Rockcastle who was outside of them and both of them were forced to drop back as they jockeys straightened them out outMotor Motor Line was sent in pursuit first and moved into third position behind Double Bid and Oclirock while Rockcastle who has a sweeping stride took more time to get back into his action Around the turn Motor Line had moved into second posi ¬ tion and Rockcastle was starting to eat up the ground on the outside outsideComing Coming into the stretch Double Bid drifted wide with Motor Line outside of him and Rpckcastle ready to launch his bid from still further out Midway of the stretch it was apparent that Rockcastle would not be denied and he surged past his two rivals to win commdndingly while Motor Line drew out from Double Bid to be second Glen Alden Oclirock Danny and Amyn Bey completed the field
