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Some Chance Goes In Plymouth Rock RockValdina Valdina Alpha Top Weight Among Twelve Sprinters Seeking Stake at Suffolk SuffolkBOSTON BOSTON Mass June 11 Twelve of the best sprinters that have paraded postward in New England this season have been named to contest the six furlongs of the Plymouth Rock Handicap weekend fea ¬ ture at Suffolk Downs Slated to display their wares for the first time before race ¬ goers in this sector this season in this 5000 test are A S Hewitts Some Chance and Burgaway The latter a representa ¬ tive of Walker Gullatt Connecticut patron will be making his first start of the season Some Chance arrived here Friday from New York and boasts two straight triumphs on the Metropolitan circuit his most im ¬ portant victory coming in the Roseben Handicap Incidentally the son of Chance Play and Some Pomp was also victorious in the 1942 running of this same stake He is asked to carry 112 pounds in Saturdays engagement engagementThe The high weight of the company is Pine Tree Farms Valdina Alpha under 116 pounds This is four pounds less than the Osculator colt carried in finishing third in his most recent engagement in the Toma sello Memorial when he was beaten a length and a nose by Through Bound and Red Vulcan in the fast time of 111 Kingfisher who was returned here from New York to represent Mrs Tilyou Christo ¬ pher is already a stakes winner during the current meeting having registered in the one mile of the Governors Handicap The Halcyon gelding gets into this engagement under 113 pounds poundsK K Dorko May Be Strong Factor FactorNext Next in line in order of weights is R Robertsons K Dorko with 110 pounds The Balko colt was sent a mile and a fur ¬ long in the Puritan Handicap a distance that he does not fancy If that performance has not taken away any of his early foot and he is able to come out of his inner berth alertly he may be a stubborn factor factorBracketed Bracketed at 108 pounds are Mixer Sol lure and First Son Mixer encountered in ¬ terference in his last outing with the result he was unable to display his best Sollure turned in a smashing performance in the Commonwealth Handicap meeting defeat in the closing strides by Woodford Lad after having raced into command by wear ¬ ing down Through Bound and Unchal ¬ lenged
