Dunraven Annexes Harrisburg Purse: Turns Back Fresh Meadows Challenge Under Gilligan; Imagem 3rd at Garden State, Daily Racing Form, 1958-05-14

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Dunraven Annexes Harrisburg Purse PurseTurns Turns Back Fresh Meadows Challenge Under Gilligan Imagern 3rd at Garden State StateBy By FRED GALTANI GALTANIGARDEN GARDEN STATE PARK Camden N J May 13 Calumet Farms Dunraven un ¬ successful since last summer at Arlington Park put up a long stretch drive to win the featured Harrisburg Purse there this sunny afternoon With Larry Gilligan hand riding through the long lane the Citation colt turned back the challenge of John Taxins Fresh Meadow who hung in the crucial moments Dunravenvs margin of victory was threequarters of a length Brookfield Farms Imagem was third in the field of seven sevenDunraven Dunraven traveled the 1 116 miles in 144 ys and paid 11 to those in the crowd of 18806 who backed him at the windows Al Fillicomo assistant trainer to H A Jones accepted a trophy following the runT ning of the Harrisburg HarrisburgHomebred Homebred Son of Citation CitationDunraven Dunraven is a homebred son of Citation out of Proud One and was making his fifth start of the year He had failed in three prior outings at Hialeah and one at Churchill Downs season seasonInswept Inswept eventually got the lead in the feature when they went to the first turn but Dunraven Santurron and Imagem were a closely locked group behind him with Manpower Fresh Meadow and Wild Ride bringing up the rear rearGoing Going dawn the back side inswept con ¬ tinued to lead but on the turn Dunraven and Imagem went up for the attack while Fresh Meadow also started to move strong ¬ ly Dunraven got the lead on the turn and came around the curve on the front end but Fresh Meadows strong surge brought him right into contention contentionThrough Through the stretch Gilligan kept shak ¬ ing his stick alongside of Dunravens head and through the final sixteenth started to draw away from his rival who after mak ¬ ing his strong lunge lost ground Imagem was a distant third while Wild Ride who trailed for the most part of the race came down on the outside to be fourth


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