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Eastern FlywayTopweight In Suffolk Downs Event Shoulders 115 While Engaging Great Shuffle and Mr. Syracuse Suffolk Downs, East Boston, Mass., May 14. — Cheaper grade platers are to have their chance to enter the limelight at Suffolk Downs tomorrow. All of the events with the exception of the sixth race are of the claiming variety and that race is an allowance test for four-year-olds and upward which have started for a claiming price of ,000 or less since last November and have not won two races since April 15 this year. Seven have answered the call in the featured ,000 mile and a sixteenth test. Top weight of the group must be carried by W. T. Leatherburys Eastern Flyaway, who is listed at 115 pounds. The others in the race are Ariels Mark, Eleven-Boy, Jr., Great Shuffle, Mr. Syracuse, Great Admiral and Miss Ellaneous. Eastern Flyaway, regarded as a top-notch .prospect for sophomore honors in 1950 only to be plagued with unsound underpinnings, carries a skein of three straight triumphs into tomorrows race. The five-year-old son of Roman — Miss Porter, completed his 1951 campaign with a pair of victories in Maryland and continued the string by winning a sprint offering here last week. His opposition tomorrow appears slightly better than he met in the seasonal bow and the bay horse will have to be at his best. Great Shuffle was a convincing winner in his last, defeating Hard Held, Eleven-Boy Jr. and Miss Ellaneous at Tomorrows distance. That victory will probably be the medium for sending the Great War gelding postward as the choice. Mr. Syracuse is the only member of tomorrows field which has not had a race this season over the local oval. The six-year-old son of Cohort started once this spring at Lincoln Downs finishing a dull last in an eight-horse field. Since that outing he has been training smartly and could provide an upset.
