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Ima Fastone Heads Field In Suffolk Downs Feature FeatureEleven Eleven 10000 Claimers Clash In Sprint at East Boston Oval OvalSUFFOLK SUFFOLK DOWNS East Boston Mass May 25 Eleven sprinters carrying a price tag of 10000 will vie in the sixth race best offering on the midweek card here at Suffolk Downs The event is for a purse of 3500 at six furlongs and is headed by W S Jacobs Ima Fastone conqueror of Sandy Strand Stables Hydrant last Fri ¬ day dayOpposing Opposing the fiveyearold Tiger mare will be Good News Stables Musical Lady D F Harringtons Copywright Sam Gar fields Respire Otto Bagleys Port Chester P J Caprittos Dick Stickney Mrs W W Adams Gallant G L A Rendines Seaton Pippin Mrs Tom Haskos Evening Flight DonnaRay Stables Bogging Bob and CherryOca Stables Gee Style With the exception of Gee Style all have cam ¬ paigned over the local oval and are well seasoned for the test testIma Ima Fastone who is trained by fo ner jockey Bill Hinphy is nicely weighted un ¬ der her impost of 109 pounds that includes apprentice Bobby Smithers and needs only to repeat her most recent effort to make it two in a row over this band bandThe The principal rivals to the Jacobs racer appear to be Respire Bogging Bob and Port Chester Respire a former stakes winner has steadily receded in class in the past two years winning only one race in 26 starts last year and a like number hi five appearances during the current sea ¬ son The Infinite stallions winning race on May 13 stamps him as a decided threat tomorrow inasmuch as the choice Ima Fastone was back in the also rans ransBogging Bogging Bob claimed for 7500 from J G Nathan in his last is at peak form and has been consistent in three local ap ¬ pearances since the opening of the current meeting The son of Andy K finished second to Ample Reward came back a week later to trounce a field of 7500 sprinters lengthsPort by seven and onehalf lengths Port Chester has failed to regain the form that found him a winner of eight starts in 1947 but the transmute gelding cannot be overlooked Well regarded in his s last Port Chester may not have been as 3 bad as the records show because of the mistake the rider made to seek better foot ¬ ing over a muddy strip losing many r lengths Previous to that the sixyearold i gained the lead in similar company yards 3 from the finish only to wilt
