THE WASHINGTON INTERNATIONAL

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27499, 5 November 1954, Page 4

THE WASHINGTON INTERNATIONAL

Queen’s Colt Unplaced Reuter— Copyright) LAUREL. November 3. Fishetmhn, one of two United Sw*g horses in the race, today won the bfr 01 ; dollars Washington International • brilliant finishing effort. . ..J Banassa, from France, was second, Brush Burn. United States, third, another French horse, Norman, obtsunns fourth money. , ,„ aq Northern Gleam, from Ireland, fifth. England’s two entries—Queen beth’s Landau and the Eclipse Stakes win ner, King of the Tudors—were the i* sl two in the field of seven. A . n Fisherman, with the noted American jockey, Eddie Arcaro, in the saddle, ran the mile and a half of the race on ■ soft track in the slow time of 2mln 4-ssec. t The field began well. Landau soonwp' in front, and on the first turn led By “ length from Norman. Passing the stsn° for the first time, the order was Landau. Norman, Fisherman, Brush Burn, Nonnern Gleam. King of the Tudors. •»“ Banassa, all in close order. Landau on the inside, with Fisherman on ' n flank. The American colt moved up they reached the stands, but Landau in front again going round the turn. . Along the back straight. Arcaro ’ Fisherman ahead of Landau, which Ran to drop back nearing the final Banassa, which had raced well bacj & the field, finished strongly and made • great but unavailing effort to overM 01 Fisherman. Fisherman defeated Banassa by threequarters of a length, with Brush three and a half lengths behind BanassaFisherman was at odds of nearly Banassa paid nerrly even moiev for oe tors holding second-place tickets on and Brush Burn returned under «*» money for his third-place backert.