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j Try for Me Splashes to Easy Three Lengths Win in Slop at Ascot Park Lively Lou Tetraparticle Follow Filly Across Line Riding Triple for Morris MorrisBy By R E HURLEY ASCOT PARK Cuyahoga Falls Ohio May 6 Benshoff Lanktons TIT for Me surprised a crowd of 4123 that braved steady rain here today by splashing to a frontrunning threelength victory over Lucille Pitzers Lively Lou with Virginia McKenneys Tetraparticle a length farther back in third Try for Me was timed in l31Vs for the 7 furlongs of the supporting feature and the Trymenow filly paid 1980 while completing a riding double for Boyd Morris K KWinner Winner of her first three outings in 1957 Try for Me was making her third trip post ward this season and Moiris lost no time taking his mount to the front dashing off to a twolength lead at the first corner Racing down the backstretch the filly seemed to be heading for trouble as she could not open up much of a lead on Tetra ¬ particle as the latter cut the gap to a half length Leaving the far turn Morris had been spoofing with his mount and gradu ¬ ally let her stride out a little more freely Around the turn and Try for Me put day ¬ light between her and McKenneys eight yearold gelding geldingTry Try for Me continued to widen her ad ¬ vantage under Morris hand urging and Tetraparticle helped things by drifting to the outside in the final quarter mile The double boosted Morris into sixth position in the jockey standings with 12 winners winnersJockey Jockey Boyd Morris completed a triple on the afternoons program when he had Mr and Mrs Pete Maxwells Panaman down in front in the seventh race and completed a double for ownertrainer Max ¬ well bringing his total to 20 wins to date datefofof fofof IOU 93ri0tm jA H J Wises Ballet Girl finished second while Hals Boy was third PanaTnan ran the 7 furlongs in 13Q over the sloppy strip and returned his followers 1780 for 2 Panaman s winning margin was a half length over Ballet Girl who was ridden by Otto Crank and was six lengths in ad ¬ vance of Hals Boy who was ridden by Tommy Osment OsmentPete Pete Maxwell moved a step closer to his own mark for most winners saddled at Ascot as his Native Texan gained a narrow nose verdict over J R Palmers Jims Pal in the second race The win was the 19th of the meeting for Maxwell who set an alltime high of 25 during the 1954 meet ¬ ing Native Texan was ridden by Boyd Morris and got the Ascot course distance in 54 flat on a sloppy track Native Texan was the favorite in the abbreviated dash and paid 580 while completing a Daily Double of 2360 2360John John and Ruby Bostons Beam Foot left the maiden ranks in grand style in the opening race of the day coming from last place through the rain and slop to register by four lengths over Claywill Stock Farms Icy Ball The Plowshare filly raced over the 6 2 furlongs in l25J5 with Charlie Billeaud up Beam Foot paid 640 as as second choice The win was Billeauds 13th and kept him two victories in front of Morris
