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New England Race Scene Shifts to Suffolk Downs Plymouth Rock Handicap Draws Field of Fourteen Sprinters SUFFOLK DOWNS, East Boston, Mass., May 25. — New England horse racing makes a quick shift of scenes over this week-end, with Suffolk Downs modern and spacious plant of the Eastern Racing Association, Inc., all ready to carry on the sport from where Narragansett Park dropped it today. Monday marks the start of the 36-day summer meeting at Suffolk, the first of two meetings scheduled for 1946, in accordance with a changed policy of the Massachusetts Racing Commission. Heretofore, Suffolk has run one long meeting each year, but two shorter sessions were decreed for this season. With a new directorate at the helm and several new men among the racing officials, notably stewards R. Norman Charlton and Lee ODonnell and racing secretary John P. Turner, Sr., Suffolk embarks upon the season confident that the heavy patronage expected will witness excellent racing throughout both meetings. The generous stake program and the ,500 purse minimum have attracted high class stables from all ports of the country. Many of the horses who have raced at Narragansett for the past five weeks will Continued on Page Four Racing Scene in New England Moves to Suffolk Downs Oval Continued from Page One be here, of course, but there are other important racing strings stabled at Suffolk, too. Racing secretary Turners eight-race card for Monday filled adequately, the 0,000 added Plymouth Rock Handicap, attracting 14 of the 30 horses nominated. The Plymouth Rock, a six-furlong sprint for three-year-olds and upward, is one of the oldest of Suffolk Stakes. It was first run in 1937 and except for 1942, has been renewed yearly. Among the 14 horses entered are winners of three of the stakes run at Narragansett this spring. One of these, H. Ted Darlings West Fleet, looms as the probable choice of the opening - day card. He is heavily weighted, however, being assigned 123 pounds. Another Rhode Island stake winner in the Plymouth Rock is Mrs. Tom Haskos Windmill, and a third is Lipson and Kanes Tiger Call. Windmill has been assigned 116 pounds and Tiger Call 114. Also carrying 116 pounds, if he accepts the issue, is E. A. Simpsons Takaway. Ruth Sidells Burgoo Maid was assigned 116 as well. The Cres- son Farms Valdina Lamar will take up 115 pounds. Others named for the opening-day feature are the Little River Stables Johnny Jr., 113; Morris Wexlers Air Patrol, 112; J. P. Holtons Jo Agnes, 111; S. D. Sidells St. Jock, 110; Sam Garfields Shiny Penny, 109; H. Guy Bedwells Hammer-Lock, 109; Bedwells Sollure, 108; and Victor Emanuels Forum, 108.
