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Ten May Line Up for Massachusetts Royal Vale Arrives From Belmont Park ParkTo To Market Winner of Race Last Year High Scud Also At Track Hopefuls Drill DrillBy By AVERY BROWN BROWNStaff Staff Correspondent SUFFOLK DOWNS East Boston Mass June 8 The 19th running of the 50000 added Massachusetts Handicap the richest and oldest stake of the New England cir ¬ cuit now looms as probably the most illus ¬ trious of postwar editions When the field lines up for the start of the mile and a quarter event at Suffolk Downs on Wednes ¬ day the national spotlight of the country will be focused on such proven handicap stars as Mrs E duPont Weirs Royal Vale Bang Ranchs To Market and High Scud D J Schneiders Elixir Mr and Mrs Jake Lingles Larry Ellis Cockfield Stables Ar cave J J Amiels Count Turf Joe Gave gnanos Joey Boy and Ogden Phipps An ¬ cestor Right now with the minimum of starters for the Massachusetts Cap practically es ¬ tablished at 10 there is a better than even possibility such lightweights of the orig ¬ inal 33 weighted candidates as W J Beat ties pair of Good Shot and Park Dandy CherryOca Stables Tio Giro and Felix M Poncelets Uncle Edgar will be included in the lineup Connections of the latter quartet are still pondering the possibilities of sending their charges postward postwardJoey Joey Boy Ancestor Shipping to Boston BostonOf Of the originally named 10 seven are stabled on the grounds now and Royal Vale Joey Boy and Ancestor are due in this afternoon To Market last years winner of the race in the fecord breaking time of 201 arrived last night in company with High Scud To Market listed at 120 pounds for Wednesdays engagement missed by a neck in accounting for the Brandywine Handicap at Delaware on Saturday and therefore does not pick up the threepound penalty it was expected he would have had to carry High Scud is a surprise candi ¬ date for the Mass but canny Max Hirsch conditioner of the King Ranch pair makes few mistakes and will shoot both barrels at the probable favorite Royal Vale ValeRoyal Royal Vale the 125pound top weight of the field was transferred to Belmont Park from Delaware Park on Saturday and arrived here from the patter point this af t arnoon Jackie Westrope regular rider for the Englishbred son of Kingsway Cora Deans is slated to arrive early Wednesday morning and will breeze the Weir ace in his blowout trial trialConfirmation Confirmation on the shipping of Joey Boy from Monmouth Park and Ancestor from Belmont Park was received by racing sec ¬ retary Eb Pons this morning The pair will accordingto arrive spme time this afternoon according to present plans r Elixir Sent Five Furlongs FurlongsFour Four of the probables for the Massachu ¬ setts worked over the local track since Sat ¬ urdays racing The most impressive work was turned in Sunday morning by Elixir With ownertrainer Schneider supervising the Bleu dOr Archive gelding went very handily to register five furlongs in 100 flat His fractions were 23 34 46 46This This morning Tio Giro was sent seven furlongs from the barrier being timed in 128 accomplishing the move in handy fashion Uncle Edgar negotiated his five furlong spin in 1OOX while the sharp Larry Ellis worked threeeighths in 36 Count Turf who had an extended trial Saturday morning going nine furlongs in 153 galoped leisurely around the track this morning morningThe The illustrious names of the handicap division to appear in this years Massa ¬ chusetts will have equally prominent jockeys as their respective pilots as men ¬ tioned previously Jackie Westrope the toast of Rockingham Park back in 1933 when he led the jockeys of the country will be up on Royal Vale Ira Babe Han ford and Benny Green are coming here from New York to handle the King Ranch pair Ted Atkinson always a prime fa ¬ vorite witrTlocal patrons will rideiArcave Conn McCreary is listed to handle Count Turf Charley Burr the 1951 riding champ who did much of his riding here has been engaged to handle Elixir Nick Wall a product of Boston is slated to ride Ances ¬ tor and Tony DeSpirito last years record breaking jockey will have the mount on Larry Ellis Of that group Atkinson Wall and McCreary have already graced the winners circle of the Massachusetts Handi ¬ cap Atkinson will be seeking his third triumph having scored with War Relic in 1941 and duplicating the feat with One Hitter in 1951 Nick Wal was astride Me now in 1938 when the Hal Price Headley star stunned the racing world in the race in which the shortpriced War Admiral AdmiralContinued Continued on Page ThirtyNine Ten May Face Suffolk Starter For Massachusetts Handicap HandicapContinued Continued from Page Six Sixfinished finished put of the money McCreary had one of the easiest victories of the Mass when he rode Stymie in 1947 1947Should Should Royal Vale carry his 125 pounds to victory on Wednesday he will join the list of succeeding highweights which in eludes Seabiscuit 130 in 1937 Whirlaway 130 in 1942 Market Wise 126 in 1943 First Fiddle 124 in 1944 and 121 in 1945 Stymie 128 in 1947 and Cochise 120 in 1950 The most notable failures of top weighted starters are Discovery 138 in 1935 and again in 1936 with 136 pounds War Admiral carried 130 in his 1938 failure and Challedon failed at 130 pounds to Eight Thirty with 126 up in 1949 1949The The Suffolk Downs management headed by Judge John C Pappas have gone all but to make this years Massachusetts Handi ¬ capday one qf the most interesting since its inauguration back in 1935 Extra ac ¬ tivities begin at 1000 a m with busses being available to take the early patrons on an inspection tour of the stable area At 1230 p m a fashion show will be of ¬ fered in front of the grandstand and at 100 p m Tommy Colins the target of the controversial CarterCollins champion ¬ ship fight held in Boston in April will spar four rounds on an improvised ring erected in front of the grandstand The Suffolk Downs infield looks its besr of the season right now and over the week end the flag pole was bedecked with hun ¬ dreds of small pennants arranged in may ¬ pole fashion The large individual signs depicting the winners beginning with Top Row in 1935 and each subsequent winner up to To Market 1952 are in place back of and parallel to the turf course The 1953 sign with its three large question marks is placed conspicuously in the cen ¬ ter of the infield grass and is bound to create much discussion before the winner to be painted thereon is a certainty comet Wednesday afternoon
