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Ten Named forTomasello at Suffolk Dinner Party Seen In Favorites Role Prognosis, Spangled Game Regarded as Contenders In Mile Holiday Offering SUFFOLK DOWNS, East Boston, Mass., May 29. The Eastern Racing Associations 38-day session reaches its semi-final stage here tomorrow afternoon with the tenth running of the Tomasello Memorial Handicap, featuring a program that bids fair to attract some 40,000 patrons. Saturdays offering will serve as a climax to a meeting that has survived general poor weather and track conditions during its early phases, only to perk up in the last two weeks to become highly satisfactory in point of mutuel handle and attendance. Tomorrows inevitable tremendous MemorialDay throng, coupled with Saturdays usual big turnout, is expected to put the host organization well ahead of any final figures computed during the siege of wretched weather. The Tomasello, named in honor of the builder-contractor Who fashioned Suffolk Downs, is a journey of one mile and an eighth and is endowed with a 0,000 purse. It is for three-year-olds and upward, but only the older horses will compete. Only a handful were originally expected to be named overnight, and when 10 were entered it was something of a pleasing surprise. New England Champion of 1946 The popular Dinner Party, who captured the "New England Championship" last season, once again finds himself with the top burden of the field, with 120 pounds, and it is not beyond the realm of possibility that he will again play his famous role of favorite. The seven-year-old gelded son of Cavalcade Eight Oclock has indicated by recent performances that he is at the top of his form and the added distance seems to enhance his chances while moving many of the others back in the esteem of the public. Others listed in the overnight line-up are Drees and McDermotts Fox Master, 104; Cherry Oca Stables Magellan", 111; R. W. Collins Scottsville, 108; C. F. Herrmanns Float Me, 111; Mrs. Ray Metcalf and Ber-Mar Farms Spangled Game, 113; Reynolds Brothers Mr. Chairman, 110; H. H. Prices Colinova and D. F. Harringtons Weathercock, 106, and H. Guy Bedwells Prognosis, 111. Dinner Party, who represents Mrs. C. P. Amodie, has started four times at Suffolk and, but for his seasonal bow, his races have been impressive. A stretch runner of some note, he usually remains far off the early pace and depends on a belated drive to annex any part of the purse. Last Saturday, at a mile and a sixteenth, he finished third in back of Rabies and Magellan, while beating Apropiado, Mullingar and Chance Player. His best race, however, was in the eleventh running of the Puritan Handicap, which found him" downing virtually the same field as he meets tomorrow. Georgie McMullen will be astride the gelding. Willie Turnbull was originally scheduled to ride, but was injured and will be out of action. Shipped From Narragansett Quarters Bedwell is shipping Prognosis up from Narragansett Park for the stake. The Calumet Farm cast-off obtained his main training licks in Maryland, where he has started twice this year without entering the winners circle. However, many are inclined to discount those efforts, for they were his first two of the year. He had spent the winter on his owners farm in Maryland and the unseasonable weather retarded his training. Never one to rush his charges, Bedwell would hardly ship a horse to two points in less than a week if he didnt think there was some chance of gaining the spoils. Prognosis arrived at Narragansett last Sun-: day. The gelding last year was one of the smartest campaigners in the East, having won 11 of his 27 races. Although most of his efforts have been in the sprinting division, he has shown on several occasions that he can run reasonable distances with the best. Last October at Laurel he fin- ished second to the handicap start Seven Hearts in the 0,000 Laurel Stakes, and, in back of him, were Plebiscite, Air Patrol, Alexis, New Moon, Black Gang and Ham-. mer-Lock. Should the going turn muddy by post time, Mr. Chairman will come in for more than a normal amount of support. He has won a pair of stakes here in the mud, but is not seriously regarded on a fast strip. : , : . ! ; ; i ; ; l I ;
