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Greek Ship Given Top Impost Again Must Carry 124 to Cochises 123 and County Delights 121 In Massachusetts Handicap By CHARLES HATTON Staff Correspondent SUFFOLK DOWNS, East Boston, Mass., June 7. — The Massachusetts Handicap piece de resistance of the New England turf season, will be presented, here at Suffolk Downs next Wednesday, and advance reservations indicate one of the largest crowds in the 16-year history of the stake. This 5,000 added run of a mile and one-quarter once again will bring some of the leading handicap performers to the Bay State. Among other prospects are such accomplished runners as Cochise, 1950 winner of "The Mass," the itinerant Oil Capitol, Noors conqueror One Hitter, the multiple stakes winner Greek Ship, the repatriated Lone Eagle, and the Travers winner, Lights Up, who will attempt to repeat the 1940 success of his brilliant sire Eight Thirty. Their presence among the candidates indicates that this forthcoming renewal of the Massachusetts will be in the best tradition of the stake. Handicapper Eb Pons released his weights for the race this afternoon, and Mrs. Dodge Sloahes Greek Ship has the somewhat anxious honor of carrying top-weight of 124 pounds. Only five of the 16 past winners carried more ballast. Don Ross handsome gray Cochise comes next with 123 pounds, just one less than Greek Ship, and three more than he carried when he won this event last summer and in track record time of 2:01%. Brackets Pair at 121 Pons fails to find a single pounds difference in Lights Up and County Delight, whom he brackets at 121. This is, incidentally, a shift of one pound in Lights Ups favor off the recent Suburban, in which County Delight was third and beat the Erdenheim four-year-old five lengths. Previously the Rokeby Stables, four-year-old had won two stakes . There is quite a contrast in the weights on the aforementioned quartet and the others, for One Hitter is rated next at 113 pounds. The Greentree Stables Stables pony built son of Shut Out has not yet this season flashed the form which made him so formidable last autumn, when he twice defeated the sensational Noor, then carried his weight and won the sporting Pimlico Special. Mrs/2Harry Trotseks Oil Capitol, onetime winner of the Flamingo, is rated just a pound inferior to One Hitter at 112. He also ran in the Suburban, getting to the front going to the turn, then retreating to eighth place., Harry Trotsek shipped the unpredictable son of Mahmoud here early, to acquaint him with his park and train him over the strip on which the race is run. He is reported to be doing well in preparation for this engagement. Going Away is rated the same as Oil Capitol, and is a stablemate of the topweight Greek Ship. Lone Eagle, second in the Suburban under 110, gets into the Massachusetts with the same impost. These are the most accomplished prospects for the race off past performances. The three-year-old Count Turf, hero of the Kentucky Derby, was a nominee, but there seems no likelihood he will be a starter. The connections of the more prominent candidates just now are awaiting the publication of these weights and the results of Long Island training maneuvers before arriving at a definite decision if they will ship for the race. The complete list of Massachusetts Handicap eligibles and their weight assignments is as follows: Horse. Wt. Horse. Wt. Greek Ship 124 Bernie Moose 107 Cochise. 123 Tilenny 107 County Delight 121 Brick 106 Lights Up 121 Pensava 106 One Hitter 113 Alerted 105 Going Away 112 Lambent 103 Oil Capitol 112 Pictus 103 Count Turf 111 Steadfast 103 Abstract 110 Fighting Fleet 101 Lone Eagle 110 Vital Sun 99 DeLuxe 108 Outland 98 TedM. 108 Peace Mission 97 All At Once 107 Count A Bit 96 Declared: Sedgevie.w.
