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I ACCOLADE CONCEDES WEIGHT One-Time "Bush" Track Horse Now Eastern Handicap Star. Assigned 125 Pounds for Autumn Handicap, .Main Event of Saturdays Narragansett Program. PAWTUCKET, R. I., Oct 23 Accolade, the one time half miler, which has been a stake winner in New England for the last two seasons, heads the eight distance performers named for the Autumn Handicap, the mile and one-sixteenth event, which will feature week-end competition at Narragansett Park. The Bright Knight Celebration six-year-old ran away with the Bennington Handicap, as Rockingham closed yesterday, and through that performance picked up a three pound penalty, increasing his burden at 125. So weighted he will be conceding from eleven to twenty-five pounds in actual weight to his seven rivals but despite this the Christmas gelding shapes up considerably the best He is at the peak of his form at present The Autumn Handicap is not a new stake on the local schedule, being first run in 1934, then discontinued in 1935. It carries a prize of ,500 added, serving as a test for the richer New England and Rhode Island Handicaps. Every one of the eight entered in tomorrows renewal is eligible for the first of these stakes and all but Accolade and Bahamas are in the other, richest distance race of the meeting for members of the three-year-old and upward division. Accolade showed a far higher price in the Bennington, where he paid .85 to , than he will in the Autumn. It is extremely unlikely that the Christmas representative will be better than 8 to 5, and mayhap shorter. Mountainy Man, claimed at Coney Island for ,500 a couple of years back by his present owners, Is an extremely bad post horse, but not. easy to defeat if he leaves alertly. Like the top gelding he has improvd since his younger days, and his most recent stake performances have been creditable. He was right behind Accolade in the final feature at Rockingham, though hell have to improve over that if he is to turn the tables on his conqueror. Tugboat Frank, a sluggish beginner but a good stayer, was just a scant length off Mountainy Man in the Bennington when he finished third. There will be a seven pound weight shift in his favor tomorrow and under a feather of 100 hes going to prove more formidable than most folks reckon. Chancing, winner of the General Green Handicap, did not do sowell in the final stake at the New Hampshire track and hell have to snap out of gait, if he is to prove formidable-in the Autumn. ,
