Thirteen Slated to Go To Post in Bunker Hill: Great Rush, New York Invader, Shoulders Top Weight of 115, Daily Racing Form, 1944-06-17

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Thirteen Slated to Go To Post in Bunker Hill HillGreat Great Rush New York Invader Shoulders Top Weight of 115 115EAST EAST BOSTON Mass June 16 The 1944 renewal of the 5000 added Bunker Hill Handicap is the feature attraction on the wellbalanced program arranged for presentation at Suffolk Downs tomorrow Thirteen of the better class horses quartered at the local course are scheduled to answer the bugle for the one mile test and the race shapes up as one of the most inter ¬ esting of the current New England season seasonLed Led by the invading Great Rush from the Brookmeade Stable top weight of 115 pounds the probable field is one of the best named at the seaside oval this year The Brookmeade gelding a fiveyearold son of Cavalcade and Squeeze has trained steadily for his halfholiday engagement and will have the saddle services of Jimmy Lynch Great Rushs best performance this year was turned in at Belmont Park on May 16 when he defeated Air Current Paperboy Anibras Anticlimax and others in the Montauk Handicap at a mile and a six teenth teenthGreat Great Rush will have to be at his best to annex major honors in the Bunker Hill for he will be opposed by some clever milers Prominent in the band are Mrs Harry Barnetts good filly Bridleour Mar sonia Stables Coronal and Charles Rufis fleet mare Dense Path The latter gave a good account of herself in her only local outing and was a formidable campaigner in New England during 1943 1943Completing Completing the group of Bunker Hill hopefuls are Victory Drive 104 Navy 106 Goober Lad 107 Baroque 109 Scotch Ab ¬ bot 110 Green Bush 95 Royal Flush 100 War Gleam 104 and Johnny Jr 103 pounds poundsThe The 4000 Dartmouth Purse a six fur ¬ longs sprint for threeyearolds and upward is a suitable secondary offering and Johnny Jr as well as Coronal eligibles for the Bunker Hill are named for this dash


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