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Seven Named for Mayors Cup As ThistleDown Opens Meeting Anticipate Highly Successful 42-Day Session; Annette G., Rose of Grey, Mr. Jett Clash By RONALD KRANCER Staff Correspondent THISTLEDOWN, Warrensville, Ohio, May 31. ThistleDown opens the Cleveland racing season on Tuesday with an excellent eight-race program. Post time throughout the 42-day session wili he 2:15 p. m., EDT., and eight races will be run daily with the exception of Saturday and holidays when nine-race programs will be carded. ThistleDown reopened last fall under the direction of Baltimorean Louis Pondf ield and was an immediate success. The grandstand is the most modern to be found anywhere and this season the infield has been dressed up considerably. The meeting last year gained momentum as the session progressed, and it is expected that the trend will continue with the more favorable racing dates of this season. Three-Year-olds in Feature The Mayors Cup at six furlongs will headline the opening day program. A small, but select field of three-year-olds have been named overnight to contest the issue which carries a ,500 purse. Slated to face starter Eric Blind are Conte and Dinovis Faulty, Edward A. Simpsons Annette G., Locust Wood Farms Rose of Grey, Samuel C. Dykes Mr. Jett, Stephenson and A. B. Hancock, Jr.s, Blue Amber, Herbert E. Simpsons Burnt Child, and Bolz Continued on Page Forty 11.11. .MI.JU ,,,.111! I LOUIS PON DFI ELD Executive vice-president and general manager of the ThistleDown Jockey Club which ushers in Cleveland area racing this afternoon. ThistleDown Opens Turtj Season in Cleveland Area, Mayors Cup Brings Out Seven; t Annette G. and Mr. Jett Clash Continued from Page One and Krnjaichs Daddys Punkin rounds out the field. 1 Annette G., a good looking daughter ofi Holdall, comes here with an excellent record compiled while racing in New England. She has won three times this season and under the conditions of the Mayors Cup will get in with 113 pounds. Rose of Grey is a non-winner this year, but has been racing against the best of her sex while at Keeheland and Louisville, She will be asked to carry .116 pounds which wiir include jockey William Seaman. Mr. Jett, who was campaigned at the Fair Grounds this past winter, must be accorded an excellent chance of scoring his second victory of the season. Mr. Jett will be ridden by Bobby Majors in Tuesdays feature. Faulty, Blue Amber and Burnt Child have also been winners this season while Daddys Punkin appears to be the outsider in this race. The fifth race, an allowance affair at five and one-half furlongs, should provide plenty, of interest. A field of eight has been named in here including two local favorites, Elaine Ruth and Tin Twist. The class of horses that will be campaigned here this year are far superior to. those of last season. There is ah abundance of horses who have been shipped to this point from Maryland and New England. 4 The highlight of the meeting will be thejk 5,000 added Ohio Derby which is to be decided on Saturday, July 10. Last season,! Alfred Vanderbilts Find was shipped here! from New York and under Eric Guerinsl handling, scored over Buck n Gee, another! eastern invader. Finds mile and an eighth, was the fastest run anywhere in the United1 States last year. Races at ThistleDown last fall were ruiy extremely fast and some of the trainers were of the opinion that the track was a little too hard. This was remedied during the off season when the track was resurfaced.
