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New Jersey By Joe Hirsch Mackle Brothers Enjoying Turf Success Sam Dixon, 16, Helps Dad Train Horses Oscar Mackey Has Way With Young Stock MONMOUTH PARK, Oceanport, N. J., June 18. Backward: Not the Elkcam Stable where the only thing in reverse is the name, merely the Serutan-ized handle of the three Mackle, brothers, Robert, Elliot and Frank. The Miami, Florida contractors, who have 12 head here with Ray Metcalf, have owned horses for the past six or seven years and have enjoyed a good measure of success. Nor are their turf operations confined to the race track. They have a 116-acre farm in Lake Placid, Florida, complete with three barns and a half- mile .training track and have about nine mares on the place. The Mackles stand a pair of studs Eternal City by Roman and Boodle by Mahmoud. Three yearlings at Lake Placid are home-breds while seven sucklings also carry the Elkcam stamp. They also do some buying at the yearling sales which means that Metcalf has fresh stock coming up each season. Of their horses on the grounds, the best is probably the Brookfield four-year-old Ifabody, whom Metcalf claimed from Harry Isaacs establishment last spring for ,000. It was an excellent grab, Ifabody winning the Coral Gables Handicap at Tropical in December and enough other events to compile seasons earnings of over 4,000. Metcalf, who raced in New England for many seasons and presently makes his home in Florida, has four two-year-olds, two of which have started. Both of the starters are winners, were purchased for ,700 each at the Kentucky Fall sales. They are Turee Jane, a filly by The Doge and Jack Parr, and I Will colt, named after the noted TV entertainer who is a close friend of the Mackle family. Youngster Gets Amateur Riders License The Hurdler: Sam Dixon recently applied for and , received, from the state of New Jersey, an amateur riders license for the through-the-f ield events at this meeting. It enables him to compete against the professionals over the jumps, but preserves his amateur status. Hes one of the few ever to receive such a license in the state and the only man to make use of the permit to date has been William Holsey of the nearby Jay Cee Farms. Sam Dixon is the youngest son of Morris Dixon, Sr., squire of Newtown Square, Pa., former jumping rider in his own right and one of the Easts top trainers for such stables as C. Mahlon Kline and Arthur Godfrey. Sam is 16 now, goes to school at Haverford, Pa., duruig"the winter, works with his dad during the summer months. Hes schooled jumpers for the past five years; like his dad and his other brothers, Morris, Jr. and Bill, has broken bones in innumerable spills, but still enjoys this sporty pasttime. This spring hes ridden in his first recognized meets. He took his fathers Old Shoe to a sixth place finish at the Radnor, Pa., hunt, then was a fourth at the Rosetree, Pa., session. He also performed at the important Adjacent Hunts meeting at Rye, N. Y., recently. Now he is supervising the 10 head that Dixon, Sr., has here while his dad flies back and fourth from New York to the farm. Sam will try to ride at the Monmouth session, then help ship the stable to Atlantic City. He has two more years of school remaining, eventually hopes to branch out with a string of horses on his own as his brother Morris has done. Trainer Has Starting Gate Experience Young Stock: Oscar Mackey is one of a few trainers who have had some experience working with a starting gate crew. This is probably largely responsible for the well-mannered behavior of his young horses in the barrier. Mackey, who hailed from Kentucky originally, went to work on the gate in New York for Mars Cassidy in 1929, then was with George Cassidy for quite a while. Eventually he began training thoroughbreds and recently took over a division of Liz Lunns Llangollen outfit, which is strung out from one coast to another if the sun does set on Llangollen at times, at least it doesnt stay dark very long. Oscar has a good-sized draft here, 11 of which are two-year-olds. The majority of the youngsters are by Endeavour H., who with Kitchen Police stands at Llangollen in Upperville, Va. Mrs. Lunn is very high on Endeavour II., a British stallion. He covered -30 mares this spring, including the best of the Llangollen breeding stock. Around the Track: Pimlicos Ben Cohen was a week end visitor with his wife, Zelda, who races a string here under the supervision of Eddie Yowell Morris Sims Blessbull, who ran a good race in the Oceanport on opening day although unplaced, will probably go in, Aqueducts 0,000 Carter Handicap on July 4. Trainer Herb Lewis has engaged Jack Skelly for the occasion. . . . Bert Williams reports that Jim Edwards Craigwood is coming back into training following a light blister after the "Suffolk 21" and will be pointed for Monmouths Choice Stakes on July 30. . . . Joe Cudone, the associate publisher of the Montclair, N. J. Times, was a press box guest yesterday. He has horses here and at Delaware Park with Charley Camac. Cudone and his wife are leaving on a European trip aboard the Andrea Doria on July 26, will stop first in Italy, then head for Ireland. ... Ed Brumfield notes that Due de Fer remained in Chicago following his recent effort in th Domino.
