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SuffolkDownsNotebook By FRED G ALIAM Continued from Page Four hors«s ran whenever the press of business allows him to and contemplates vacationing here this summer. Of the 12 horses in Taters barn, 11 belongs to Sledge. But Tater thinks his biggest horse is going to be his 15-year-old son, Little Tater, who weighs under 100 pounds and helps his father around the tracks when not in school in New England. "Hell make a good rider," remarked Tater, "Just remember that in a couple o years." In addition, Tater is also the father of a lovely 19-year-old girl, whose picture he shows with obvious pride. After indulging in his parental privilege, the man from Oklahoma went out and saddled the winner of the first race. Whenever the horse Go Go Go runs here, Sam McCracken, handicapper for the Boston Globe, turns slightly crimson and braces himself to be the butt of jokes from his confreres. One day last year the horse was entered in a race at Narragansett Park and Sams graded handicap read: "Go Go Go — no no no." Needless to say the horse won and paid a three figure mutuel, and as long as the horse races, Sam will never be allowed to forget his bon mot. Sams excuse is that his first six selections in the race were scratched . . Frankie Zehr leaves by plane tonight after the races to ride T. P. Morgans Grover B. tomorrow in the Valley Forge Handicap at Garden State Park . . . Tony Cataldi has added Flyaway Jack and Gro-Smart to his string, bringing the number of horses in his charge up to 10. The duo came in from Ascot Park and race for D. B. Schmeck, the Al-lentown, Pa., poultry dealer. Cataldi is trying to get in contact with jockey Joe Colaneri. Larry Lane, secretary of the Massachusetts Racing Commission, has learned from Ray McElroy, of the Rhode Island board, that the latter outfit has completed its arrangements for the entertainment to be tendered the delegates of the NASRC convention and their guests on Sunday, June 7. The party will be taken by buses to the Squantum Club, outside of Providence, for lunch, then will take a cruise down Quo rise t Bay on the Nelsico to Newport, returning to the Squantum Club in time for a Rhode Island clambake. Wild Jimbo, who races for Mrs. J. OBrey, is named for their youngest son Jimmy. The inspiration for the horses name came one day when young Jimmy returned home after falling in a creek . . . Babe Rubinstein, the track announcer, is in his 20th year of broadcasting races in New England. He has been on the horns at Suffolk 19 years since the track opened and worked the year previous at Rockingham Park . . Mrs. Eddie Mack, wife of the old Sarge, has left the Cardinal OConnor house, St. Elizabeths Hospital, where she had been for two weeks, and is now convalescing at her West Rox-bury home. She will leave for their summer home at Hamilton Beach, Cape Cod, the end of this month . . . Larry P. Howley made his first appearance as a trainer at Suffolk today with Russian Treaty in the fourth race. Howley, who serves as an official around the fairs, also has Wind Tunnel for the Canterbury Stable.
