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Gallorette Added to List of Probables For 0,000 Massachusetts Handicap Slated to Leave New York Sunday Night for Suffolk; Jessop Expected to Ride SUFFOLK DOWNS, East Boston, Mass., June 28. The twelfth running of the 0,000 Massachusetts Handicap, mile and a furlong feature of the current meeting, which will headline the Fourth of July program here, looms as one of the best handicap races of the 1946 season as the result of the v addition of William L. Branns Gallorette, recent winner of the Brooklyn Handicap, to the list of probable starters. Racing secretary John P. Turner received word from trainer Ed Christmas this morning that the Challenger II. filly would leave New York Sunday night and arrive here Monday. Walter M. Jeffords Pavot will be shipped from New York at the same time, while Mrs. Ada L. Rices Sirde will leave Chicago bound for Boston on Monday. The potential field now includes, in addition to Gallorette, Pavot and Sirde, Mrs. Ethel Jacobs Stymie, William Helis Olympic Zenith, Bernard Seroys Hillyer Court, Longchamps Farms Apropiado, H. Ted Darlings West Fleet, W. E. Schluse-meyers Gabe Paul, Morris Wexlers Plebiscite, Mrs. Ray Metcalf and Ber-Mar Farms Spangled Game, and Mrs. C. P. Amodies Dinner Party and Elmo T. Gallorette, who gets in with 119 pounds, has won 12 of her 29 starts and 80,060 in purse money. In addition to the Brooklyn she has also accounted for the Acorn Stakes, the Pimlico Oaks, the Delaware Oaks, the Empire City, the Nimba Handicap and the Metropolitian Handicap. The four-year-old daughter of Challenger n. Gallette was very impressive in her Brooklyn Handicap victory. Carrying 118 pounds, the Brann Miss beat Stymie, who was toting 128 pounds, two more than he is asked to carry in the Massachusetts, by a neck and stepped the mile and a quarter in 2:05. While no announcement has been made as yet as to who will ride the Brann filly, Job Jessop will probably be trainer Ed Christmas selection, if his contract employer, the Brookmeade Stable, will permit the leading rider of 1946 to accept the engagement. A. Snellings will probably ride Pavot, while Bobby Permane is Hirsch Jacobs first will come East from Chicago to have the leg up on Sirde. Two of the Massachusetts Handicap horses were on the track this morning for workouts. Bernard Seroys Hillyer Court was sent a half in :48, and was caught the three furlongs in :35. Olympic Zenith also breezed a half, accomplishing the move in :51.
