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Connors Corner Continued from Page Five prone to follow a well supported starter. A snowball rolling down hill gets bigger at each revolution and the same applies to the amounts that move into the machines in these days. Royce Martin was an early arrival and witnessed the running of the days program . . . Jerry Brady came back from a trip to Miami and reported that Tropical Park was in its original locale. He also reported that the Miami sports writer Jimmy Burns was hospitalized with a kidney ailment . . . Name plates for the turf correspondents are in place in the stand at Aqueduct. The mastheads of their respective papers are carried out to the final detail . . . Opening day brought out an international situation for the breeding pundits. Sunnyland, the first winner, is by the Italian horse, Sirte, Afton Prince is by the English horse, Rhodes Scholar, Pinto is by the French horse, Goya II. Another French-bred, Raphael II., sent Button Shoes to the races, while Ipe, sire of Leguisamo, stands in Argentina although a French -bred. Fenelon, Discovery and Head Play belong to our side. Trainer Johnny Coburn reported that Royal Castle, owned by J. M. Seider, was breezed for the first time the other a. m. and is ready for a long training campaign before going postward . . . Gary Schumacher, the advance man for the Giants, deserted the typewriter and publicity dodges for the afternoon . . . Trainer Sol Rutchick reported that Pigeon Pride had arrived at Jamaica from the farm where he had been turned out . . . Commissioner and Mrs. Joseph F. Mafera, he is with the Queens County works department, braved the elements for the afternoon . . . Brook-lynites will have no excuse from now on for missing the Daily Double. The 8 a. m. train from that borough will stop at Wood-haven Junction for transfer purposes. Mickey Miles and Max Engleberg, who glory in living in Brooklyn, where instigators for the movement . . . Frank Moore shipped Sweet Pryme and Black Bead to Suffolk Downs for engagements . . . Spencer Drayton came out for a look-see and appeared satisfied with every detail . . . Glen Feltner shipped Reproduction, Risking and Cachet back to Jamaica from the New England sector . . . Judge Bernard Frank, of Miami Beach, Fla., was among the afternoons visitors . . . Frank Parker forgot all about the tennis courts for an afternoon chasing winners . . ■*• Trainer George M. Odom reported that Joe Eitingers Jet Master came out of his Tremont engagement in good physical condition. His next engagement is in the Great American. For this race he will wear blinkers and then be put away until the Saratoga session . . . Bill Gallagher made his first appearance of the meeting during the course of the afternoon. The days selections are: BRER FOX in the sixth, BUTTON SHOES in the seventh and LEGUISAMO in the eighth.
