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A. HUTCHINS — Sends out the New England-bred Park Dandy in todays running of the Yankee. Isasmoothie Heads Yankee Line-Up Takes Up 122 in Suffolks! 5,000 Nine-Furlong Test ■ Park Dandy, Miss Joanne, Kamehameha and Powhatan Also Fancied in Feature By AVERY BROWN Staff Correspondent SUFFOLK DOWNS, East Boston, Mass., June 16. — Brookfield Farms Isasmoothie £ heads the line-up of 10 sophomores named t to dispute tomorrows 18th running of the Yankee Handicap at Suffolk Downs. The £ stake winning Rosemont colt will have 122 £ pounds up in the 5,000 added mile and a furlong feature and will be handled by j jockey Dave Gorman, coming up from New * York in the morning. 1 W. J. "Jim" Beatties Park Dandy, a I Rhode Island-bred son of Bull Dandy — Park Avenue, is rated next by racing sec- retary "Eb" Pons, receiving a four-pound 1 concession from the Brookfield colt. Next in the weight assignment for the top three- year old event of the Massachusetts season j is Boncrist Farms Better Goods at 116 pounds, two more in actual poundage than • that of Jim Grieves" filly, Miss Joanne, ; will have to carry. C. V. Whitneys • Fly Wheel and Greentree Stables Powhatan are bracketed at 112 pounds, with King I Ranchs Kamehameha and W. L. Curies : Little Lucky slated to tote 108. Dave Weiss- : bergers Assiduous, 105, and Ralph Gotts-mans Go Go Go, 102, complete the line-up. ; While this years edition of the Yankee ■ does not have a winner of at least one of the "Triple Crdwn" events, such as was the ! case last year when Blue Man outclassed : the field, the race shapes up as one of the : best in post-war years from a competitive standpoint. Atkinson to Ride Again The fact that Powhatan scored easily in a recent overnight handicap at Belmont Park with Ted Atkinson, tomorrows rider, carrying the same weight as assigned in the Yankee, will in all probability make the Princequillo colt one of the choices in the Classic. The Greentree colt finished fifth in the recent Peter Pan won by In-vigorator, but reports from the New York area claim the colt was the victim of poor racing luck, being carried wide by Isasmoothie, who was second in the race. , Powhatan won two races in impressive fashion during the winter racing at Hia-[ leah Park and has earned 1,210 to date. Isasmoothie is still seeking his initial • triumph of his three-year-old career. The bay colt, who gained prominence last fall , by winning the Pimlico Futurity, was beaten in his seasonal bow by Dark Destroyer in [ an overnight allowance dash at Bowie, then finished third in the Chesapeake Stakes and ran unplaced in the Gotham at Jamaica. Since that time, he has had three consecutive seconds, namely in the Swift " Stakes, an overnight handicap at Belmont and the recent Peter Pan. 1 Park Dandy has three triumphs to his credit in six outings this year, all of which [ were scored at Lincoln Downs earlier in the spring. Following the Rhode Island l campaign, the Beattie gelding was sent to ; Garden State Park for the Jersey Stakes » and thrilled his New England followers by ; extending Royal Bay-Gem while finishing : second on the muddy oval at tomorrows I distance. Ted Johnson, who rode Park l Dandy in his last four starts, will again do I the piloting. , Kamehameha Could Be Threat r Kamehameha, who was far back in last Saturdays Belmont Stakes, could easily t prove the one to beat tomorrow. The home-t bred son of Polynesian showed brief speed at Belmont Park and retired steadily while . his rider was having trouble reportedly i from his saddle slipping. Prior to the Bel-; mont, Kamehameha had won a pair of j allowance events at Garden State Park and . was reported to have worked smartly for - the big race at New York. Keith Stuart, is i slated to handle the King Ranch colt, i Fly Wheel defeated Isasmoothie in an j overnight handicap run before the Peter » Pan at Belmont Park, and Better Goods, a r disappointment in two local outings since shipping here three weeks ago, has per- 1 formed better than those two races would s indicate. The chestnut son of Good Goods . won in Florida last winter and was a head 2 back of Park Dandy in the Jersey Stakes. Little Lucky, a surprise candidate for the 1 Yankee, will come in for ample support in e the nine-furlong test. Miss Joanne is not e outclassed in the stake, being considered ;. the top three-year-old filly in the New e England area. She carries a skein of two i victories into the big event. Assiduous and i Go Go Go must be considered the outsiders t in the Yankee. I Seven of tomorrows candidates for the , Yankee were on the track this morning, r Go Go Go was the only one to be given [ a an extended trial, being timed a mile iif - 1:44% in handy fashion.
