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Morris by half a length and was at the rail with Topland third 

 a head back and the others close up. Around the clubhouse 

 turn, Joe Morris swerved outward and carried the others with 

 him, giving Donau a lead of about three lengths as they straight- 

 ened out for the run down the backstretch, having passed the 

 half in :484/5. Joe Morris was here two lengths in front of 

 John Furlong and Topland, they on nearly even terms, with 

 Fighting Bob two lengths back of them, a length in front of 

 Boola Boola and Gallant Pirate a neck apart. 



Herbert took a restraining hold on Donau, passing the three- 

 quarter ground in 1:14 and steadied him around the turn out of 

 the backstretch still three lengths in front of Joe Morris. Here 

 Stanley Page made his move on Fighting Bob. The son of 

 Knight of Ellerslie was in third position in a jiffy and less 

 than two lengths back of Joe Morris. Coming around the turn 

 into the homestretch, Boola Boola made up ground rapidly and 

 the pace seemed to quicken. At the end of the mile in 1 :39 4/5, 

 and heading for home, Donau led by half a length, with Joe 

 Morris a head in front of Fighting Bob, and he four lengths 

 better than Boola Boola, the others clearly out of contention. 

 There it looked as any one of the first four might win, for 

 Boola Boola was carrying the Camden colors with the speed 

 of the wind and loomed up big and strong. Down the stretch 

 they came, whips whirling and resounding even above the roar 

 from the stand and the field, and those jockeys rode desperately 

 for the prize that hung at the end of the tiring, heartbreaking 

 journey now less than a sixteenth cf a mile away. On and on 

 they came near to the black mark of the white board that should 

 proclaim the finish; flying, yet struggling gamely and deter- 

 minedly under the punishment of the bending striving riders to 

 be first to that goal where hung fame, glory and gold. 



