Article: Beach Towel Breezes; Favorite Goes Wire to Wire in `Jug' Final

Beach Towel backed up his prerace billing as the top 3-year-old in the field to post a wire-to-wire 1 1/2-length victory in the 45th Little Brown Jug at the Delaware County Fairgrounds today.

Starting from the third post position, driver Ray Remmen pushed Beach Towel to the rail at the outset of the championship heat and was never headed, winning the third of pacing's triple crown events in 1:53 3/5. Jake And Elwood, not entered here, won the first two legs.

Beach Towel, owned by Seth Rosenfeld and others under the name of the Uptown Stable of New York, won for the 15th time in 19 starts this year with three seconds. He broke and didn't finish in the other race.

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