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Bernmattar Takes Churchill Sprint SprintBernborough Bernborough Juvenile Timed In Snappy 58 Tribalove Edges Cold Harbor for Second SecondBy By Staff Correspondent CHURCHILL DOWNS Louisville Ky May 9 Taking to the extremely fast going here this afternoon Holtsinger and Mcll vains Bernmattar accounted for the co featured Roman Purse in near track record time being but a tick removed from the track standard of 58 for the 5furlong distance The twoyearold son of Bern borough Mattar registered decisively by Yz lengths in his maiden victory which was anticipated by the estimated 7400 fans present He paid 340 340Runnerup Runnerup honors went to Tribalove who performs in the colors of Brinkman Rengle and Brewer with the colt leading Cold Harbor at the end by just a head English Chant was fourth while the second choice Getahead was fifth in the seven horse field of juveniles juvenilesPair Pair Leaves Gate Slowly SlowlyLois Lois C Cook was astride the winner The pair broke from the barrier rather slowly and at the end of the opening threesix ¬ teenths they were five lengths back of the frontrunning Tribalove At the end of threeeighths a gap of 34 lengths sepa ¬ rated them At this point Cook went to work on the colt Little time was required for Bernmattar to close this deficit so that before the eighth pole the winner took over and immediately began opening daylight on his opponents throughout the closing furlong furlongA A minor duel developed for runnerup honors with Cold Harbor coming again after having swung wide to lose much ground on entering the stretch and making a real charge at Tribalove in the final strides However his actions at the top of the lane proved too costly and he wound up settling for third money moneyBut But for the cooperation of nine maiden threeyearolds one player in todays crowd would have wound up a moderately wealthy person while accomplishing a horse play ¬ ers dream winning an entire Daily Dou ¬ ble pool as this fan held a Daily Double ticket combining the winner of the opener Mr Treasure 4480 with L O McQuowns Mr Dayton in the second race which had he won would have created a record pay ¬ off of 2778820 Mr Dayton finished tenth tenthOlen Olen Sledges Cassopolis a much more popular member of the second race emerged with the honors as the Ardan gelding strolled under the line of finish nearly three lengths before S I Crews Chance Gauge in a most decisive win Show honors went to W W Jones Could Be It who performed evenly through the 6 fur ¬ long dash Cassopolis required but 111 to get the distance in the extremely fast going an dreturned 520 520Mr Mr Treasure and Cassopolis returned but 12980 in the Daily Double DoubleWells Wells Brothers Movie Romance became the second consecutive choice to win when the Alsab filly swamped her eight op ¬ ponents by eight lengths in a 7 12 fur ¬ longs dash for fillies and mares The filly made one decisive run on leaving the back ¬ side to glide into a threelength advantage midway of the turn and widened on her field the remainder of the way with Ralph Borgemenke up Runnerup money went to Kays Choice she finishing but a half length before Cup Moon The winner stepped the distance in 13045 and re ¬ turned 520
