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t; C | »l SuffolkDowns Notebook I By FRED GALIANI Five Riders Leave for Hollywood Make Film of Activity at Suffolk Schooling at Rockingham Daily SUFFOLK DOWNS, East Boston, Mass., May 8. — Music is piped over the loud speakers in between races and the most appro priate song played so far is "Rain." Thats what it has been doing most of the time up here. . .Five jockeys here have decided to try their chances at the Hollywood Park meeting, which is currently in a squabble over purses with the HBPA. The Hollywood club is importing riders from the East, and Sterling Young, national secretary of the Jockeys Guild, has stated that the Guild is neutral in the dispute but that it has no control over decisions the jockeys wish to make. Among those leaving are Ed Joyce, Fred St. John, John Huggins, Gene Curry and Ron Delpidio. The boys have their transportation paid and are guaranteed 00 a week, the association to make up the difference if riding fees dont hit that total . . The Bill Cannings, he is the clerk of scales here, are expecting their third edition the end of this month. Mrs. Canning is at their Hollywood, Fla., home... The press box was caught .looking out the window yesterday in the Daily Double. Betting the hunch of Roman-type and Five Star would have netted 75. Suffolk Downs is the latest to join the motion picture producing end of publicity. Ed Sullivan, the publicity director, has started work on a 16 mm., 20 minute film, to be shot in Technicolor and in sound in cooperation with 20th Century-Fox. The film will deal with the behind the scenes operation of readying and keeping a racing plant humming throughout a meeting. Work started prior to the opening, beginning with the preliminary steps necessary to get a track ready for the races. On the day the first shots were to be taken, New England was lashed with a freak snow storm that canceled racing at Lincoln Downs and tied up the entire area. Sullivan called New York, endeavoring to head off the cameramen, but was told that it was a beautiful day down in Gotham and the crew had already left. The film will now offer documentary evidence that snow removal is just one part of preparing a track for an inaugural. In addition to the other features, a complete running of the Massachusetts Handicap will be included. The film, untitled as yet, will be ready for distribution to the various clubs and organizations in the vicinity by the end of the meeting. This past winter, Sullivan has been showing "Greentree Thoroughbreds" on an average of three times a week to social groups. For 18 years, or ever since Suffolk Downs opened, Arthur Siegel, sports editor of the Herald Traveler, has been occupying one seat from which to view the races. This season, however, his place has been rudely usurped so many times that he has finally abdicated, declaring in public property, and joining the ranks of roaming reporters who wander at random for position . . . Tomorrow is a day for revenge. Guilli Guilli, the world famous magician currently appearing in town is a stout horse fan. He spent a «ood portion of a recent night pulling live chickens out of my pockets, coats and sundry other places, but tomorrow it is my turn. Guilli Guilli is coming out to the races — Ill mark his program for him . . . Chet Bateman and Gene Dubeau, of the camera crew, figure they have developed a record number of print in 12 days. Six prints are made every time a photo is called for and this last week they have developed 544 prints. Dino Romoli and Joe Saalfrank are conducting schooling classes every morning at Rockingham and in between dispatching horses are making the countryside echo with noise as they repair the starting gate to be used at the meeting . . Howard Freedman has received a post card from Billy Mills, the West Coast starter, who is in Honolulu. . McCarran, a two-year-old filly has been purchased from the Christiana Stable by Mrs. R. B. Lewis and Mrs. George Handy . . . W. J. Beatties English-bred Good Shot, who scored two easy victories at the meeting, is being pointed for the Massachusetts Handicap on June 10. Augie Hutchings, who trains for Beattie, handled the J. W. Y. Martin string a few years back, which Continued on Page Forty -Four .--.f i , _ . _ . ... SuffolkDowns Notebook By FRED GALIANI Continued from Page Four included Con Amore and Dark Hope, big favorites in this sector. Trainer Billy Hinphy, who has a young Methuen lad, Mickey Thomas, under his care for over a year, reports that lad is progressing nicely in moving towards a jocks career. Thomas has broken horses from the gate several times, doing a good job at it. Hinphy doesnt know when he will give the boy his first chance under silks, believing that you cant make a good rider overnight, but he says the lad is making rapid strides. When Bill thinks he is ready hell put him on a horse for real .
