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I — 1 t Monmouth Memos — By FRED GALIANI Colleen First of Juvenile Stakes Substantial Gate, Handle Increase Plan Series of Endurance Events MONMOUTH PARK, Oceanport, N. J., June 26. — The first of a quartet of stakes for juveniles will be run next Saturday when the 0,000 Col- ■ . ■ „ i..... leen Stakes, for fillies, 3? will start off the two- T,J/Kt year-old events. For ;"„ , Jm the first time at the *f ,jSP? session the distance will be increased to five fls| and a half furlongs and w"w* 105 fillies have been i;,itT" JL nominated, with some ~ LVT 9 of the leading nomi- jH nees being Darby Dan jjmL jk-JB Farms Banquet Bell, E wc5 jH ™ Phil Godfreys OAli- son, William Helis Lady Bouncer and A. G. Vanderbilffs When In Rome. The Fourth of July will also signify the opening of the Shore season when the population practically doubles overnight. June hasnt been too bad for Monmouth this year, as every day-s attendance and handle has surpassed that of the corresponding afternoons of 1952. The gains are substantially 10 per cent above last years, which indicates another record season. Racing secretary John Turner, Jr., announced thai he will write a series of endurance races into coming condition books, fashioned for three-year-olds and upward under allowance conditions. The first is to be run at a mile and three-sixteenths, with the distance gradually being lengthened, and the purses keeping pace. . .Charlie Burr has been engaged to ride Jimminy Baxter in the 0,000 . Select Handicap on July 1. The Select is at six furlongs and is a forerunner of the mile and a sixteenth Lamplighter Handicap and the nine-furlong Choice Stakes. . .Basil James will travel to Chicago to handle two horses for the Jaclyn Stable on July 4. He will be on Hueso in the Warren.Wright Stakes and either Closed Door or Bobs Alibi in the Stars and Stripes Handicap on the turf course. Jack, and Charles Goetz, executives of the Twientieth Century Fox Corporation, and brother of Will Goetz, who raced Your Host, now standing in New Jersey, were guests of racing commissioner Hugh J. Strong, who is also an executive of the same motion film company, . .Stanley Gillespie, the placing judge, has been on the ailing list the last couple of days but continues on the job... An addition to the large number of birds nesting in the grandstand girders, is a monstrous owl roosting up there. He spent all of yesterday in quiet repose, with his head tucked under his wing. New sleeping quarters have been built in the jockeys room, what was formerly part of the attic haying been sealed off and converted into a bedroom, complete with air conditioning. Eddie Law, who has charge of the jocks conditioning, has added heat power in the sweat box, 24 infra red lamps of 250 watts each baking the room to degrees surpassing Death Valley. , Jimmy Rafterys extra curricular activities on the stage have now reached the point where, along with his photography, he has no leisure time at all. Last Saturday night he flew to Suffolk Downs after the Monmouth races to entertain at the turf writers dinner there; Wednesday he gave a command performance for the Skeeters Club at the Hollywood Golf Club in Deal, N. J., where Phil Iselin was host to the group of sportsmen; last night he trod the boards again for a dinner of the lawyers association at the Deal Country Club. Next Monday night he and his accompanist, Tom Kelly of the mutuel department, will collaborate again at the Sheraton Biltmore in Providence, where Eddie Arcaro will be feted at a testimonial dinner tendered to him by his friends in Rhode Island. General manager Ed Brennan takes exception to the claim of Hollywood Park that Wendell Cassidy has come up with another first in the introduction of the portable starters stand. This lightweight aluminum stand, which is easily transported from one starting pole to another, has been in use here since the beginning of the meeting, and the construction of said item was completed last year. The stand was on the grounds at Continued on Page Forty-Three ; Monmouth Memos By FRED GALIANI Continued from Page Five Monmouth Park last January and thus probably antedates the California version. Trainer Jim East will give Dinewisely a couple of works at Delaware and, if the mare shows enough, she will be a starter in the 00,000 New Castle Handicap at Delaware on July 4. . . . Mis. Lou Smith has just forwarded the latest circular on the activities of her Crippled Childrens Non-Sectarian Fund. Contributions for 1952 totaled 7,500, of which 5,000 was given to the Joseph P. Kennedy Memorial Hospital of Boston, ,000 to the Philadelphia unit of Shriners hospitals for crippled children in memory of the late M. L. An-nenberg, and ,500 to Childrens Hospital in Boston. mann on Jampol, Grohs on Eljay, and Don Scurlock on Big Stretch. Riders were not named for the others at entry time. Because of the nine-race bill, first post time Saturday will be 1:30 p. m. instead of 2:00 p. m.
