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GENERAL GREEN HANDICAP Accolade Top Weight and Favorite for Saturdays Program at Rockingham Park. SALEM, N. H., Oct. 16. The final Saturday of Rockingham Parks 1936 session will be featured by the mile and a sixteenth General Green Handicap, a ,000 added race for three-year-olds and over that has attracted an overnight field of a dozen. Included in the band are the leading stake horses that remain in this racing sector. The field Is headed by Donley Christmas Accolade, one of the outstanding performers of the New England turf season, which will pack top weight of 125 pounds. Although his task tomorrow is a toughxne, it is anticipated the Bright Knight gelding will rule the favorite. He has qualified at all distances from three-quarters to a mile and a sixteenth and has won against the best fields which could be mustered against him. He is an honest and rugged campaigner and Is capable of packing high weights. Bob Wholey will ride him. Accolade will be conceding seven pounds to his nearest rival tomorrow afternoon. This is Al Panarellas Howard, a very much, improved campaigner, which left such a horse as Time Supply behind him in the What Cheer Handicap at Narragansett. Howard is essentially a stretch runner and it is likely he will be passing tiring horses in the final eighth if the 118-pound package does not prove too much for him to handle. Howard signaled his present form when he won the Mt. Washington Handicap here recently. Kempton Knott has been given the riding assignment. Sun Archer, which invaded the New England battleground only recently, having campaigned in New York previous to his one start here, is in the race under 115 pounds. The Sam Deutsch campaigner failed in his try over the Rockingham strip the other day, even though deep mud, going that supposedly was made to order for him, prevailed. The leading New England-owned three-year-old. Gallant Gay, will bear the silks of young Weston Adams in tomorrows contest. It is likely that this fit and honest fellow will rule secondin esteem to Accolade. He was second to Watersplash in the mud in his most recent effort. Tomorrow he will have 113 pounds to pack and is one of the high weights of the pack from the standpoint of the scale. Spring-like weather, the mildest of the session, prevailed today. With a continuation of such conditions, Saturdays gathering should be second only to the throng that turned out for the Columbus Day sport. It is hoped the betting on tomorrows eight events will serve to bolster the average handle, which has been cut considerably by cold and damp days recently. The first post time will be 1:15 oclock instead of 2 oclock, which has prevailed for the seven-race week day programs.
