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g TEST ACCOLADE AGAIN TODAY Bright Knight Gelding Assigned 125 Pounds in Pawtucket Race. Bill Farnsworth Also Listed to Carry 125 Founds in Sprint Event Expect Big Crowd. PAWTUCKET, R. L, Oct 30. Accolade, one of the most improved horses in training, heads the group of nine named overnight for the second running of the New England Handicap, the mile and a furlong event which features the week-end program at Narragansett Park. The Bright Knight gelding, despite top impost of 125 pounds, and the fact that he will be conceding from nine to twenty-five pounds in actual weight to his rivals, shapes up as favorite for the event, earning that distinction through recent achievements at Rockingham Park. Accolade said farewell to racing at the New Hampshire grounds with a most convincing victory in the Bennington Handicap. There he packed 122 pounds to defeat a field of about the same order as he will oppose tomorrow. Prior to that he was a frequent winner, displaying considerably better form than the others which have been racing in this area through the season. Unless there is a sudden change in the weather, the half holiday stake will be run over a fast track. All of which should make for a much more satisfactory contest than one decided through the mud. ATTRACTIVE PROGRAM. The Futurity day crowd was the largest of the meeting, but that is expected to be topped tomorrow, providing the weather j continues fair and there is no drop in temperature. The card surrounding the stake feature is attractive, with Bill Farnsworth, present New England sprint champion, slated to take on brisk opposition in the six furlongs secondary feature. Like Accolade, he must carry 125 pounds and make considerable weight concessions. It does not seem too severe a task for the Crack Brigade gelding. Six of the eight named to oppose Accolade in the ,000 feature have tested his metal recently and he appears to hold them perfectly safe. However, Roustabout shipped in from Kentucky for the race and Beefsteak came on from New York for the engagement They are the uncertain quantities in the event Roustabout has not looked so good during the last two seasons as he did earlier in his career. As a two-year-old, the C. V. Whitney horse was able enough to win the Grand Union Hotel Stakes at Saratoga while the following year he won three stakes, the Swift at Belmont Park, and two hand- Cantinued on twenty-fifth pagej TEST ACCOLADE AGAIN TODAY Continued from first page. icaps in New England the Roger William and the Rockingham Park. In addition he gained official placings in several important stakes. Not since 1934 has he been successful in a major event. However, he is in the race well under 110 pounds and recent form in Kentucky was fair. Beefsteak was considered a possibility for the 00,000 Santa Anita Handicap by Louis Nimkoff early in the year, but the one-time Bradley performer went amiss shortly be- a fore the race and could not start. In recent Empire City competition he suggested he is coming to himself again and with a favorable assignment of 106 pounds may be extremely troublesome. Chancing, winner of the Autumn Handicap last Saturday, drew a two-pound penalty in tomorrows chief attraction, making his burden 116, while Tugboat Frank, one he just nosed out, moves up the same to bo shouldering 102. Mountainy Man, third in that stake, drops two, getting in with 110. Of the trio Tugboat Frank looks the best, as the route is being stretched out a sixteenth of a mile. Don Guzman raced today and hardly will be sent back, while the spot seems decidedly too tough for Rip Van Winkle and Bahamas. Though Accolade looks superior to all rivals, he is no such horse as Time Supply, winner of the first New England Handicap! In that running the Virginia-bred son of Time Maker traveled the mile and a furlong in 1:49 with 119 up to set a track record which stands today. Theres no chance it will be shattered tomorrow afternoon. Seven sprinters will take on Bill Fair f worth in the secondary attraction with I 1 Higloss, Party Spirit and Bubblesome shap- i ing up as his main rivals. Mrs. Marian Cas-nrtSi 5ePre!fntative will be the shortest fw CVes have drawn larKe fields and u od,ds-n Prospect among them. It should be a keen afternoon of racing.
