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r-— ] — — -| New England By Fred Galiani Boston Area Sport Ends Today Wagering Is Slightly Off 54 Macomber Last of Rich Stakes SUFFOLK DOWNS, East, Boston, Mass., June 3. — This 41-day session wraps it up Saturday and racing in the immediate r-— ] Boston Boston area area will will be be Boston Boston area area will will be be dormant until the fall proceedings begin in N October. Despite the changeable Boston weather, which is the natural climate of the section, the meeting has done quite well. In fact, the figures are -only slightly off last years. Going into Fri-days activities, the handle handle was was slumping slumping a a handle handle was was slumping slumping a a mere 1.2, and a final -two-day wager of ,215,634, to figure exactly, is necessary to bring this years total to a deadheat with the 1954 session. The attendance has held up well and is on a par with last years. Only 28,219 fans must go through the turnstiles to better the corresponding spring session, and on the face of it, looks like a sure thing. Saturday alone should attract almost that many people. Suffolk Downs has thus more than held its own. The sport has been of the highest calibre in some seasons and the /festival of racing," which was designed to celebrate the tracks 21st birthday, offered a galaxy of stakes, seven being offered in 16 racing days. This was an unprecedented amount for a New England track. Chief event was the renewal of the Massachusetts Handicap, which brought local" fans a view of William Helis Helioscope at his best, as he won in track record time. Tpp three-year-olds of the sprinting division performed in the "Suffolk 21," and some of the better juveniles as Decathlon, Dark Charger and Getthere Jack, entertained in the Kindergarten. The John Macomber Memorial is the valedictory feature and the 5,000 race has kept pace with all the other stakes with such talented turf performers as Cascanuez, Maharajah, Prince Hill and Lovely Wave among the field. Certainly Suffolk deserves an accolade for presenting some fine racing and giving patrons an opportunity to see some top flight horses. Warren Wolf, stall man for the last .two Suffolk meetings, is returning to the racing end after the close of this session. Wolf will campaign four of his own horses at Cumberland, Charles Town and Scarborough Downs. This is his farewell to the headaches of being the stall man and he will not return for the fall session. Training may have its problems, but they are picayune compared to the job of handling all the demands for stalls. . . . Fitzie Lan-tosca is still confined to the Veterans Hospital in Jamaica Plain with a back injury, but is hopeful that he will be released in a few days without undergoing surgery. . . . Charles Smith, racing secretary at Scarborough Downs, observes that stall applications for the coming meet at the Down East track is running ahead of the bids at this time last year, with quite a few coming from New Jersey. Abe Livingstone is sending The Tormen-til and Roberta Win to ThistleDown this Sunday to join the otHers he has out there, with jockey Jean Trochet going along to do the riding. Livingstone also has a division of eight at River Downs, where his contract boy. Jack Kurtz, is riding in good form again. Theres a possibility Kurtz will Continued on Page Forty-Seven — ADVT. New England By FRED GALIANI Continued from Page Seven return to the New England area, where he got his big start last year, in a month or so. B. A. Dario was treated for an eye ailment in New Haven, Conn., recently and is back at his Cumberland farm. . . . Apprentices- monopolized the, day on Thursday, with John E. Smith and George Gibb each racking up three winners. Smith rode both ends of the Daily Double for the River Divide Farm and also the nightcap to tie Gibb for the day, who had chalked up his three in the interim. The New England division of the Horsemens Benevolent Protective Association will hold its annual elections on July 25 at Rockingham Park and Scarborough. The date was chosen before the opening of the Massachusetts fair circujt, as many complaints had been registered about the merits of the having fair men vote on an equal basis with those on the major tracks. The election will be held a week before the national committee meets to nominate candidates for the general election of the horsemens organization. Max White, president of the local division, has now branched into another field. He has opened Maxies delicatessen in Hoxie, R. I., which he notes should be good news for the hagel lancers. Catalogs for the sale of the Brookmeade Stable horses at Belmont Park on June 8 are available in the secretarys office. Thirteen horses in training and nine yearlings will go onthe block. . . . Lila Phillips, serving as judge at the Devon, Pa., horse show is due at Narragansett on Sunday to take over the 15-horse stable she has quartered there. An organization of considerable antiquity will celebrate its 317th anniversary on Monday. The group is the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts, and Judge John C. Pappas will entertain a party of guests Saturday in the Paddock Club. Colonel Thomas J.I Carty, captain commanding the artillery company, will head the party of guests. Also present will ,be three visitors from London, who are coming to Boston to attend the June day exercises. All are members of the companion Honorable Artillery Company of London. They are Maj. Gen. I Sir Julian Gascoigne, colonel commandant; Maj. Richard C. Cole and Maj. John A. Hill. . . . Larry Adams, who recently arrived from Garden State, will journey to Narragansett to do the riding for Jack! Goodwin, who has 17 horses at the Paw-tucket course.
