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RICH RACE WEDNESDAY Ten or More Likely to Face Barrier in 50000 Massachusetts Brann to Decide Whether or Not NotGhalledon Ghalledon Will Oppose Older OlderHorses Horses at Boston BOSTON Mass July S The New Eng ¬ land racinar season reaches its peak next week with the decision of the S500CO Massa ¬ chusetts Handicap at Suffolk Downs on Wednesday Fifteen of the eligibles are now on the grounds and racing secretary Charles McLennan believes that ten or more will start W L Brann was due here over the weekend Cholledon which won the 15000 Yankee Stakes here on July 4 was to be worked Sunday morning Brann will decide immediately as to whether he will send the threeyearold against several of the best older horses in the country The horse is in perfect condition but a large field might militate against his chances His weight is 114 114The The starting top weights of the pack will be Binclia Stables South American Liga roti and J H Louchheims Pompoon Both will carry 120 Pompoon completed his training for the race with an extended gallop on Saturday He was never sounder and J trainer Johnny Lof tus has him on razor edge LigaroU has been here for several days Both of his owners Lin Howard and Bing Crosby have come on for the race raceTHANKSGIVING THANKSGIVING CERTAIN CERTAINThanksgiving Thanksgiving is virtually certain to go un ¬ der US barring accidents and will be one of the favorites in what appears a wideopen race Trainer TV A Crawford arrived here tvro days ago with the Willis Sharpe Kilmer psir ofNedayr and Lucky Omen They had their final for the race Saturday morning vrorkln 3 mile together in 141 Nedayr vsill carry 114 his stablemate 109 Crawford said yesterday both would start startThe The field Kill probably be the largest that bas eer gone io the post in the richest of New Englands races A G Vanderbilt has shipped the stretchrunning Heelfly on for the race The latter working well will take up 111 111Amon Amon the horses that have campaigned War ilinstrel all stake winners this season CkJdJon has drawn 114 Pagliacci 112 and WarlOnstre 111 111Koney Koney Cloud which equalled a track rec ¬ ord down at Delaware Park before shipping here inill go to the post under 114 Many baadicappers and workvatchers believe he is strictly the horse to beat He was never better than he is right now nowTie Tie probables are completed by Masked Oeaeral Blind Eagle Aethelvold and Court Daaoe They are the outsiders and light eights of the pack Aethelvold will be conpied vith Chaliedon if he accepts acceptsThe The total value of the stake may run just uader 70099 This vould mean a prize of mare than 59000 for the winner There Continued on thirtyninth pa je RICH RACE WEDNESDAY Continued from first page are five prizes given in the Massachusetts In five years the handicap inaugurated at a 25000 value has become the richest handicap of the summer in the East It has seen the downfall of two great horses Dis ¬ covery could land no better than third be ¬ hind Top Row and Whopper in 1935 Wai Admiral was unplaced last year It was tho only occasion that War Admiral finished out of the money anywhere anywhereTime Time Supply took the 1936 event Seabis cuit was the first winner of the race when it was raised to its present value That was in 1937 Menow romped home over an off track by eight lengths last season seasonThere There have been oddson favorites in all other runnings of the Massachusetts There will be none this year In fact several of the higherweighted horses are likely to go into the race with no more than a points difference between them Its that tough a race to handicap The Massachusetts may not draw horses with the reputation that Discovery Seabiscuit and War Admiral held but it should result in the most closely con ¬ tested race in the stakes history historyThe The Suffolk Downs track is now packed down hard and is as fast as greased light ¬ ning There is plenty of pace in the 50000 event and the time should be extremely fast if there is no rain between now and Wednes ¬ day Rain would hurt the chances of Pom poon more than those of any horse in the field He was beaten a wide margin by Pagliacci in the mud here Mud would im ¬ prove the chances of the latter
