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Two Allowance Races Top Todays Suffolk Program Eight New England-Breds in Dash While Routers Prepare for Stakes SUFFOLK DOWNS, East Boston, Mass., May 4. — With the return of pleasant, sunny weather here at Suffolk Downs, racing secretary "Eb" Pons has been able to offer an interesting card for tomorrow. A pair of allowance events, each with a ,000 purse value, will feature the nine-race program. The seventh race and probably the best race from a competitive standpoint is for four-year-olds and upward to vie at a mile and one-sixteenth. Mrs. J. M. Branhams Shadows Start, a prime favorite of New England fans, shares starting topweight with Rhode Island-owned Felix M. Ponce-lets Uncle Edgar. Each is to carry 120 pounds, 10 more than the other four entrants, Vigilant Stables Sailed Away, T. A. Sears Ocean Breeze, Rebel Stables Shell Diver and Oakhurst Farms Brick. The sixth event has been styled for New England-bred three-year-olds and upward and that six-furlong test has attracted eight illustrious sprinters, foaled in this sector. Jim Beatties Linwood Harry, an eight-year-old son of Bluebeard, must shoulder the topweight in the dash. He gets in with 114 pounds, two more than the package assigned to Oakhurst Farms Tommys Memory. Coupled with Linwood Harry will be Beatties Time for Speed, a highly regarded sophomore, who gets in at 102 pounds, including a five-pound apprentice allowance. Others in the New England-bred test are B. A. Darios fleet Nancy Clare, Little Rhody Farms Cheryl Ann, Henry A. Kimballs Lady Cheer, E. D. Herrmanns Money Call and T. W. Reardons Nutmeg Lad. In the middle-distance feature, each contestant, with the lone exception of Brick, has been victorious at least once this season and the race shapes up as a springboard to the distance stakes, such as the Tomasello Memorial and Massachusetts Handicap. While Jim Beatties entry looms as the choice in the sprint, Nancy Clare is bound to have ample support. The homebred daughter of Bull Dandy — Beach Ensemble was unfortunate in "training as a juvenile and did not get to the races until the opening week of the current meeting. Although beaten in her debut, the sophomore miss cannot be counted out without another try. She is bound to improve with the needed education received. Cheryl Ann and Lady Cheer raced for- midably enough to figure right up there with the local bred*.
