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BUNKER HILL HANDICAP HAS FIELD OF FOURTEEN FOURTEENThird Third Covey to Carry Top Weigfit in Todays Holiday Attraction at Suffolk Expect Large Throng ThrongBOSTON BOSTON Mass June 16 Bunker Hill Day a popular local holidy will undoubted y attract a large throng to Suffolk Downs view the program that has been arranged or the occasion In the featured Bunker lill Handicap at one mile and endowed with 15000 added one of the most representative lelds that has met this season will test their speed speedThird Third Covey from the string of Hal Price leadley has been assigned top weight of 16 pounds of those named through the entry ox The fouryearold son of Supremus and Paradox has won three of his four starts over the local strip His most important score came in the Paul Revere Handicap The colts performances being one of the chief reasons that Hal Price Headley is lead ng the owners in the amount of wins during the current session Jockey Sterling Young who piloted the Headleyite in his Paul Re ¬ vere score and just last Saturday won the Commonwealth Handicap astride Cape Code will once again handle the Supremus colt coltIn In receipt of one pound from the hfgh weight comes E R Bradleys Bold and Bad This fouryearold can be counted upon to show a much improved effort over his first start of the meeting The Blue Larkspur colt showed top form ia New York before coming here and was good enough to finish second to Eigh Thirty in the Metropolitan Handicap The Bradley colt has shown up nicely in training moves and terminated his reparation for tomorrows test by a handy mile Saturday morning in 143 JOHNNIE J RECENT CLAIM CLAIMHeld Held next to the two top weights in the 112pound bracket are Mrs C C Winters Night Editor and Sassy Lady member of he C E Nelson entry who will have as a running mate Johnnie J the latter recently being acquired via tlie claiming route Night Editor will have the capable miler Patrol Scout as a stable companion Johnnie J has been assigned 110 pounds while Patrol Scout will poundsAlso pick up 108 pounds Also slated to shoulder 110 pounds are Mrs Sam Orrs steadily improving Ster Boarder as well as the Plymouth Rock Handicap winner Liberty Franc B A Darios recent winner Master Key gets in with 109 pounds the same impost that has been given the locallyowned Sundodger a representative of Mrs M C Breen BreenWise Wise Bee from the W F Mannagh string and a capable performer during the earlier part of the meeting Mrs H G Goods Vot um and Mrs F C Rompfels Deimos each get in to the offering under 107 pounds The light weight of the party is Phil Biebers recently acquired Maechance under 101 pounds poundsThe The Bunker Hill was inaugurated the first year of the Suffolk Downs racing Its win ¬ ners include Discovery in the first running of the stake in 1935 followed the next year by Black Gift then came Piccolo High Ve ¬ locity Clodion and last years winner Dun ade adeWith With a field of a dozen starters the net value to the winner will be 5310 slightly higher than last years 5110
