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Nell A Competes Today In FillyMare Offering OfferingChoice Choice Over Seven Suffolk Foes Run Commonwealth on WeekEnd WeekEndSUFFOLK SUFFOLK DOWNS East Boston Mass May 1 The spotlight as the third week of racing at Suffolk Downs spring meeting gets under way is centered on the twelfth running of the Commonwealth Handicap to be run Saturday May 8 Nominations for the 10000 stake closed on April 1 with 27 named with all but four of the eligibles stabled on the grounds at this time The Commonwealth is for threeyearolds and upward to be contested at one mile and a sixteenth Practically all of the nominees for the weekend stake have been seen in action during the first two weeks of the current 42day meeting and are advanced enough to give a good account of themselves should they be sent postward Racing sec ¬ retary John P Turner Sr will release the weights I or the handicap on Tuesday and much will depend on the burden to be car ¬ ried A quick glance at the potential line ¬ up leads one to Relieve that the race is a wide open affair T Fillies TFillies and mares that have attained the age of fouryearolds or upward are fea ¬ tured on Mondays program Eight of the weaker sex are carded to race six furlongs for a purse of 5000 Mrs C Flacks Nell A appears suitable placed in this event under an impost of 102 pounds Main con ¬ tention should be forthcoming from Mrs Tom Haskos Evening Flight at 110 and Mrs Ed Haughtons Staging a winner at the meeting who will carry toprweight of 113 pounds poundsOn On Wednesday there is an allowance event programmed under similar conditions conditionsProminent Prominent oh the list of Commonweath starters are G T Babins Dockstader Be lair Studs Hyblaze Bermil Farms Bug Juice Colgate Farms Naval Base Jrving Gushens Andys Glory D F Harringtons Weathercock Lazy F Ranchs Calvados Marlet Stables Wide Wing and Baguio J L McKnights AgrarianU and Sanford Stud Farms Yankee Hill
