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i i i ; : . » [ . . Shawsheen Draws Eight Better Grade Platers Flying Mile Seen Choice Over Snow Whirl and March Chick SUFFOLK DOWNS, East Boston, Mass-May 4. — Eight platers, who have raced for a claiming price of ,500 or less since October 1, are slated to match strides in the Shawsheen Purse, featured offering at Suffolk Downs tomorrow. The Shawsheen, a test for older horses at one mile and a sixteenth, is endowed with ,800. Despite the lack of class in the feature, the majority of the contenders have displayed enough in their spring races to suggest an evenly-matched contest could be forthcoming. With the exception of O. C. Roys Celophan II., the entire line-up was acquired via the halter route during the winter months or earlier this spring. W. Hinphys Snow Whirl is the most expensive investment of the group, coming to his present owner for 0,000 from the Bernadotte Stable at Havre de Grace on April 13. On this date the son of Whirl-away was defeated a length and a half by Leamour. Prior to that, Snow Whirl scored a triumph during the Florida winter season. Flying Mile, picked up for ,000 at Hia-leah Park by the locally-owned Cherry Oca Stable, was good enough to win a nine-furlong test for ,500 claimers at Jamaica in his last outing. In two other starts on the Metropolitan circuit this spring. Flying Mile finished second and third. A record of finishing in the money in six of his seven starts in 1949 will probably suffice to install the Milkman gelding as the favorite in the Shawsheen. Sandy Lane Farms Gams, a winner at Lincoln Downs last month and a better-than-average performer against top competition at Fair Grounds in New Orleans last winter, is sure to gain her share of I support in tomorrows feature. In her most recent outing, the Blandisher mare finished second to the fleet Gray Star. March Chick, sporting the silks of Mab-lum Stable, came out of a claiming event at the current Havre de Grace meeting for the sum of ,500 and in his only start for the new owners, he wound up fifth in better company than he is meeting here tomorrow. Improvement is likely from this seven-year-old Milkman gelding.
