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New Jersey Report By FRED GALIANI Ninth Year of Racing at Monmouth Another Successful Meeting in View Cinda to Seek Regret Cap Triple MONMOUTH PARK, Oceanport, N. J., June 11. With the comfort of the customer paramount, Monmouth Park launches its ninth season of rac- ing Saturday, and another successful year is in view, despite the threat of increased taxation. Dining and wagering facilities have been installed on every main level of the grandstand and clubhouse -o there should be no excessive crushing of patrons. Keeping ing pace pace with with the the lux- ing pace pace with with the the lux- luxury of the plant is the racing itself. The record nominations list for stakes this year includes virtually the star of every division in action today, and. the opening -feature has proved no exception. William Wick-hams White Skies, ruler of the sprint division, swings into action in the Oceanport Handicap and despite his crushing 136 pounds,. 10 other rivals have accepted the challenge, which should provide an interesting contest, indicative of what is in store for turf followers during the ensuing 50 days. Dave Gorman arid agent Lenny Goodman arrived and will stay for the entire session. Gorman, one of the nations top pilots, will ride contract for James Cox Brady ... Jim Maloney, trainer for Joseph Roebling, is another who deserted New York for the Monmouth session. He will bring down others of the outfit later especially when the two-year-olds recover from the cough . . . Jouett Shouses sparkling mare Cinda? who returned to action after almost a years layoff to win at Delaware, is quartered T.7ith Bernie Bonds string. If all goes well on her comeback campaign, Cinda will be pointed for the Regret Handicap, a victory in which would give her a unique record at this track, in that she will have won the stakes three straight years. She took a division of it in 1952 and repeated last year. The only horse to have a double in one stakes was Monitor and one has to go back to 1882-83 for the Long Branch Handicap to find that feat. An autopsy has revealed that William Foales Just Sidney, who died after a long, courageous but futile fight, was a victim of hemorrhagic nectrotic colitis, which is a medical term for a bloody inflammatiori of the bowels . . . Sol Rutchick will campaign nine horses here for his patron, Col. E. P. Bixer, and Mrs. Rutchick . . . Johnny Co-valli arrived from Maryland and will free lance here . . . Ev Clay, who makes with the words for Hialeah, was a pre-opening visitor for a quick look around, then left for New York and the Belmont Stakes, but promised to come back next week . . . Speaking of Florida, there is a definite Sunshine State air in the publicity department with Don Reed, Charley Johnson and Frank Patrionostro aiding Barker Seeley. Reed handles similar chores at Gulfstream, while the last named pair work for Clay at Hialeah. Trainer Charlie Gribbin visited Mike Caffarella recently in the University of Pennsylvania Hospital. The former jockey has been hospitalized since being severely injured in a spill at Bowie early in the spring. Caffarella is paralyzed for the f most part, but Gribbin reports that he is showing a little feeling in the upper part of his body . . . Henry Carroll has joined the official family and is on John Turner, Jr.s staff. This is Carrolls first stint at Monmouth . . . Sammy Saco was lucky to escape serious injury when he was kicked by a horse at Garden State. A two-year-old lashed out and got him in the chest rendering him hors de combat. X-rays revealed no fractures, but if he were hit a little higher it might have been fatal. Sam, who has nine horses for the meeting, has also taken over the conditioning of Prince Rhymer. General manager Eddie Brennan has appeared on so many TV and radio shows the last few weeks he could be deemed a professional, but he says that he isnt in Bryan Fields class yet and still an amateur . . . Riggs Mahony, mutuels manager, returned with his wife and family from their Florida home after taking a side trip to Tulsa to visit Mrs. Mahonys home . . . Jockey Nick Shuk came up from Delaware to handle Brookmeades Safety in the Oceanport Handicap.
