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. Eight Acceptances For Constitution Best Doings, Bar Sinister And Sneak Travel Postward In Suffolk Downs Offering SUFFOLK DOWNS, East Boston, Mass., May 27. A small, but select group, numbering eight, have accepted the issue for tomorrows ,500 added Constitution Handicap at Suffolk Downs. Topweight of the sophomores that will meet in the mile and one-sixteenth goes to Mort Stuarts Best Doings, who was assigned 119 pounds, two more than Marlet Stables Sneak. Alfred G. Vanderbilts Bar Sinister, is weighted at 116 pounds. Murray Hill Farms Boo Boo Shoo and C. E. Tuttles Double Brandy are bracketed at 115 pounds. Next in the weight alignment is Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Bedwells Bearing Clear, 113, with D. A. Rosenbaums American Glory and Phil Schwartz Norwest slated as the lightweights of the party under an impost of 109 and 108, respectively. With the exception of Norwest, the only maiden in the line-up, all the candidates in the Constitution have established themselves creditably, either here or on other eastern racing fronts, as capable performers during a season that has failed to develop an outstanding three-year-old. None of tomorrows featured thoroughbreds have annexed a stakes victory during their three-year-old campaign, yet five have played an important role in the spring stakes roster of the 1949 season to date. Forced Pace in Everglades Best Doings forced the pace set by Reveille in the Everglades Handicap at Hialeah Park before tiring in the final sixteenth of a nine-furlong event. The son of Best Seller then appeared in the Farrell Handicap at Bowie, taking second money behind Blue Lancer. In three overnight allowance tests since arriving at Suffolk Downs, Best Doings has registered a victory at six furlongs, a second at tomorrows distance and a triumph, also at a mile and one-sixteenth, in that order. Sneak won the Rockingham Park Juvenile last fall before shipping to the Miami area. After finishing out of the money in the Hibiscus Stakes and the Bahamas Handicap, the Bimelech colt traveled six furlongs in 1:10 to win an overnight allowance field which included Palestinian, Irish Sun and Reveille. Sneak was third in the Everglades prior to his second in the Flamingo, which was won by Olympia. True, the colt has not been at his best since his arrival at Suffolk Downs, but has been training smartly for tomorrows test. Double Brandy, an eligible for the Belmont Stakes, wound up his juvenile career by finishing second to Palestinian in the Endurance Handicap at Bowie last year. Bar Sinister is the only member of the Constitution field who has not started locally. Tomorrows race also marks the initial start in stakes for the Vanderbilt colt. Off his New York form, in which he has won two starts, the homebred colt rates well toward the top of early race predictions. Boo Boo Shoo won hree races at Fair Grounds this year before shipping north to Havre de Grace. In each triumph, he bested the best sophomores racing at the Louisiana track, including Petey Cotter, who did not accept his weight assignment of 122 in tomorrows race. American Glory is the other colt in the Constitution line-up who has been formidable while competing in stakes company. The fleet mare, Irisen, beat the Ro-senbaum colt by a length in an overnight handicap at Bowie this spring. He just missed winning by a short nose in the Paul Revere Handicap, competing against older horses.
