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Small Yankee Handicap Field Likely Regard Only Three4 , 1 As Certain Starters Suffolks 5,000 Holiday i Stake to Attract Shut Out, Valdina Orphan, Bless Me BOSTON, Mass., June 27. At this writing it appears that the 5,000 added Yankee Handicap, one of the more important features on the Suffolk- Downs Stakes program, will attract one of the smallest j fields ever to go to the post in a handicap event at this track. Conditions may change by next Saturday, the 4th of July, when that mile and three-sixteenths fixture for c three-year-olds will top the card, but right j now only three horses, Valdina Farms Val- dina Orphan Greentree Stalbes Shut Out, p and Col. E. R. Bradleys Bless Me, are re- garded as certain starters. " It should also be pointed out at this time g that in the event an "off" track prevails a next Saturday, Shut Out will not start. The son of Equipoise and Goose Egg, winner of the Kentucky Derby and the Belmont h Stakes, will be sent here Wednesday with that reservation, as he has shown no par- tiality for wet ground. v Regardless of the smallness of the field, s however, there is considerable interest in j. the coming Yankee hereabouts, because Valdina Orphan before shipping to New York to whip Shut Out in the Dwyer Stakes a a at Aqueduct, had won three straight races n here, including the ,000 added Consti- a a tion Handicap. The Yankee will also mark j, the first meeting of "The Orphan" and Shut Out at even weights since the Dwyer, g both having been assigned 126 pounds. Actually, however, it is their third meeting P under those weights because they both had to carry 126 pounds in the Derby and the f Preakness. On both occasions Shut Out a a finished in advance of the son of Hilltown, p winning the Derby and finishing fifth g vhile "The Orphan" finished seventh in o the Preakness. f Derby Winners First Start in Sector c s Shut Out is an unknown quantity as far f as New England racing fans are concerned, c They have never -seen him race and will-r welcome a chance to compare him with a two of their current favorites, Valdina Or- phan and Bless Me. t While the aforementioned trio are cat- "i alogued as certain starters- in the Yankee, s there is a slight possibility that during the s course of the coming week additions will t be made to the list. No doubt that the s trainers of eligibles will elect to shoot lor second, third and fourth money. Second money is ,000, third money is ,000 and a fourth money is ,000. Among those who may be sent to the 1 post is Mrs. E. H. Augustus Trelawny. The ? bay son of Sir Gallahad m. didnt run so s well in -his last start, but he will be given another chance to show what he can do in a race Tuesday at Delaware Park. If he shows to advantage in that event, he will be shipped here for the Yankee. There is also a chance that Valdina , Farms will send Rounders to the post as an entry with "The Orphan." That im- ported son of Fairford, who has raced well, worked sensationally Friday morning while, stepping a mile in 1:38. Phil Reuter may decide to send A. One to the post. That colt appears to be overmatched in this event, but if he could get a piece of the purse it might be worth his while. Late last week the Wheatley Stables Eire was considered a possible starter, but up until today Charles J. McLennan, 1 racing secretary at the Boston oval, had heard nothing from James "Sunny Jim" Fitzsimmons, the colts trainer. i Eighth Running of Race Next Saturdays running of the Yankee will be the eighth, as the race was ii- i gurated in 1935. Bert Baroni saddled the 1 winner of the inaugural when he tightened I the girths on Ann ORuley and she finished i before Whopper and Skipper, but the dis- i tance was then only a mile and a sixteenth . and the purse was only ,000 added. The following year the conditions of the race were changed to require the starters 5 to run over the mile and three-sixteenths J they are now asked to contest. Rushaway, J who had just won the Latonia Derby and i Aurora Derby, within 24 hours of one an- : other, was regarded as the favorite, but the Greentree Stables Memory Book turned up as the winner. i War Minstrel and High Velocity staged : a thrilling duel in 1937 and the former got : the verdict in a much disputed photo fin- . ish. Cravat accounted for the 1938 renewal before Blind Eagle and Thanksgiv- : ing. Challedon, winner of the Preakness that year, shipped up to win the 1939 re- " newal before Hash and Silent Witness. The finish of the 1940 running of the event was a three-horse duel, but Pass Out ; got the verdict before Sirocco and Dusky Duke. Last year Our Boots ran his best - race as a three-year-old to lead Market Wise and Robert Morris.
