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NEW ENGLAND SPORT BEGINS Suffolk Downs Offering Plymouth Rock Handicap as Headliner. Mrs. Emil Denemark Names Trio for First Feature Finance Assigned Heavy Burden of 132 Pounds. BOSTON, Mass., April 29 Eleven horses were entered today for the Plymouth Rock Handicap which features the opening program at Suffolk Downs. The card tomorrow will mark the opening of the most important season in the history of New England racing. There will be a referendum this fall by the voters of the state and the success of the meeting will go a long way in influencing the vote. Finance, one of the three horses Mr. Emil Denemark may start tomorrow, has top weight of 132 pounds. The horse was named in the overnight entries, but it is not believed he will be started under the weight he has been given by racing secretary Gene Bury. Finances stablemate, Uneasy, has only 103 in the race and is much more likely to start, coupled with Higher Cloud, with 118 pounds. CLOCKS LIKELY CHOICE. Favorite in tomorrows field is likely to be Clocks, in under a package of 118 pounds. Higher Cloud, under the same weight, will run him a close second in the matter of odds. Both horses are in excellent form right now and if Finance declines, will be heavily backed. Pumpgun showed excellent form in Florida and is not out of tomorrows contest under the light package of 103. The Fighter, a top class campaigner for the last three years, is one of the heavier burdened horses with 116 as his portion. He will be well backed tomorrow off his last good race in New York. Marson, Trouper, Orinoco, Buster Boy and Panther Creek are others in the field. All are well known to New England racegoers, but they appear to be in a tough spot ! here. ! The eleven horses in the Plymouth Rock Handicap are a good indication of how the other races filled. In addition to the eight races carded, racing secretary Gene Bury who replaces the late Jim Monroe, carded a substitute race for ,000 claimers for four-year-olds and upward over the six furlongs route in case scratches depleted any race on the card so that it has to be cancelled. Weather predictions for Saturday are "partly cloudy with the sun breaking through. Temperature in the middle fifties." EXPECT LARGE CROWD. At that rate one of the largest opening crowds of New England racing should turn out. The management has been liberal with passes, what with the referendum coming up and as this is the first opportunity that Suffolk Downs has had to open a New England season since the revival of racing here, a crowd of between 15,000 and 20,000 at a conservative estimate, will turn out. The racing authorities are doing everything that they can to win friends for the sport here this year. The sport has long been a political football hereabouts, but if it gets a favorable vote this year it will be pretty well established here in New England. W. J. Norton, with a division of the J. H. Whitney establishment, is expected in at the close of the Havre de Grace meeting.
