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Show -t . 'Love Witch' Wins Under Wraps at Tanforan day before." The lienor made? it clear thnt the condition of the irucR marl j no mrrerpM'v. Thm the moment the big black fellow wu ready he would gofast, slow, - muddy, puppy, heavy or drying. The trark was soft fry and deep Thankftfrivinjr. but out came Amor and .-stepping hifch. So mighty were the tales that had been toid about the "mystery horte that - - By HENRY MrLEMOKR I ntted Prmrn Sport Writer BAKBRBFtr.LLI, Cat, Mn. W (UP) Not etnre Luis Angel Flrpo I came out of South America with ' hia msgnifircnt whiskers and un impeachable dialect, haa any pampas pam-pas product excited as much interest in-terest aa Amor Brujo, the "Love Witch." Amor Brujo la a con I black 1 horse from the Argentine, and i carries the white and gold silks of Senor Horacio A. Luro. He has run but one race north of the equator the Thanksgiving day handicap at Tanforan Hut that was enough to stamp him aa a champion and a serious menace to the J 100,000 swag that goes with the Santa Anita handicap. handi-cap. A crowd of more than 15.000 watched the South American champion toy with hia opposition in his first North American start, and it left the track convinced hut the twoaeaad em) sue m I mors about the "mystery horse I were true. I heard all these ru-iiiuis ru-iiiuis win ii 1 was at Tan fin ail I early this week. Clockera talked I of his amazing workouts in the foggy dawn. Stable hnya said the, big black horse would run away from War Admiral and Seahiscuit. Handicappera wrote of his tremendous tre-mendous speed and power. " Senor Horacio A. Luro did nothing noth-ing to quiet these reports. In fact, the good eenor fanned the flames every time he spoke. He said Amor Brujo was the heat horse in the world, and. that having hav-ing cleaned up the South American Ameri-can tracks, had been brought north to show this country a little lit-tle plain and fancy running. He freely predicted that the "love witch" would handcuff any and all thoroughbreds in the lush Santa San-ta Anita handicap. Asked aeveral weeks ago when he planned to start his mighty steed, Senor Horacio A. Luro said "whew he's dsae) fit. NX owe one San Francisco turf expert wrote that the crowd waa a trifle 1 "'disappointed when Amof Brujo did not come out prancing on six legs, wjth wings on his back, anorting fire and brimstone. But the Argentine beauty didn't disappoint in the race. Breaking Break-ing alowly. hrloafed until the backstretch. when he turned on the heat momentarily and picked up the front runners in bunches, making up more than 10 lengths in one-sixteenth of a mile. Once ' in front Jockey Francis Maachek put the wraps on. and coasted the rest of the mile and a sixteenth six-teenth route to win by three lengths. Amor Burjo waa merely breezing at the wire. Amor Brujo will get hia. first aerioua test December 18. when he will go in the $10 (XO San Francisco handicap. I say sen-ous sen-ous because Seabiscuit will be in that one, prepping for the Santa Anita. If the South American " beauty ticks "Seahlst'ult tie will go 1 to the post at Santa Anita carrying carry-ing the right wing of the mint on his shoulders, or fetlocka, as the horsemen aay. |