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Simple Star Makes Good After Long Runaway Act Steckler Juvenile Spills Ussery At Jamaica, Evades Outriders JAMAICA, L. I., N. Y., May 10.— There J being no handy reference books recording ! this sort of episode, Stella G. Sticklers ! Simple Star had the veterans here at Jamaica 1 today searching their memories. The j juvenile daughter of Bright Sword spilled I jockey Bob Ussery just above the eighth j pole, sped around into the backstretch, nimblv eluded the outriders and charged back into the front stretch again. Again evading her red-coated pursurers. Simple Star ran around to the backstretch a second time, wheeled and sped back around the clubhouse turn, with Lucas Dupps having to reach far out of the saddle to finally catch her. At the time she lost Ussery, Simple Star was 9 to 1 on the infield board. When she won the race, never being worse than second, by two lengths over Ellis Farms Sea Fighter, she paid 7.70 after getting the five furlongs in liOO.1,. Simple Star had run away approximately Continued on Page forty-Eight Simple Star Makes Good After Long Runaway Act Continued from Page Seven a mile, most of it at a good clip. Veterans immediately recalled the incident some 25 years ago when Watch Her, trained by Max x Hirsch and ridden by Tony Pascuma. unseated her rider and ran up and down the e Widener course at Belmont Park, jumped d hedges and paid a hasty visit to Floral II Park, then came back to win. Watch Her 1 never started again. Photographers Mike Sirico. however, recalled the incident of Brookmeade Stables Helianthus, no relation to the horse of the same name now racing, who lost his rider at Aqueduct before a race in 1928 or thereabouts. This Helianthus, according to "Total Recall Sirico, ran twice around the Aqueduct track and won his race. About 10 days later, this Helianthus started back k and was in conention entering that long lg stretch when he dropped dead. Both Watch h Her and Helianthus, like Simple Sar, receded _ sharply in the wagering, but those ;e races were run during the bookmaking days ?s and their prices jumped to 100 to 1.
