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New Jersey 1 By Fred Galiani Helioscope Joins Tom Fool, Native Dancer Th ree Entered but Only Two May Face Him Nash Hopes to Shed Weight, Resume Riding MONMOUTH PARK, Oceanport, N. J., June 21. Helioscope has "scairt" his opposition right out of the Salvator Mile, weight-for-age event which features , Wednesdays program at Monmouth Park. When entries were filed for the race this morning only three horses were named to oppose him and one is an extremely doubtful starter. This situation posed a problem for track officials. The Salvator would most certainly produce a minus pool if there were betting yet there were enough entries to prevent a walkover. After a long discussion they decided to card the race as "exhibition" if only three horses go postward, with a ninth event added to the program. Helioscope thus enters the Tom Fool league. As it stands now, the mile is carded as a regular race with betting with a final decision to be made 45 minutes before post time Wednesday if there should be any scratches. Tom Fool ran out of opposition when it came to weight-for-age appearances and in the twilight of his career all his races were "termed exhibition, which merely meant there was no betting. They went into the record as stakes won and the purses were added to his monetary total. Monmouth could, if they desired, call off the stakes, as there is that conditional clause in the nomination blank, and there have been such cancellations previously. Just this past winter, Gulf stream Park voided the Winter Wonderland Handicap when only two horses were named against the late, great White Skies. May Switch Race to Exhibition Status Such a thing had never occurred before at Monmouth, and rather than set a precedent, the powers that be may decide on the exhibition status. Such af- -fairs as this deal reeling blows to the advocates of weight-for-age races. While it is true that there comes a point in any top handicap horses career, where he can be weighted right out of the race, weight-for-age doesnt seem to offer the solution for continuing a horses career. Too often there is no opposition, for the simple reason owners of the rival horses do not think they are getting the best of the weight spread. Its unfortunate, but thats the way things have been shaping up in recent years. Ronnie Nash, over a period of years one of the better jockeys in the East, is here working with the Oscar Mackey-trained establishment. Nash, who has been fighting weight, last rode at Laurel this past fall. He intends to continue exercising horses and if he can get his weight down to riding trim, may resume his saddle career by the end of the meeting. . . . Eddie Kelly sent Brookfield Farms I Appeal to Aqueduct for an engagement there on Thursday. . . . Joe Regalbuto returned from Delaware Park, where he rode Eugene Moris Errard Prince Monday. . . . John D. Rivera is galloping horses for Ev King here, getting ready to resume a riding career which was interrupted by a hitch in the Army. On the other hand, Harry McGuigon, who was discharged this spring, began riding Monday on M. R. Schneiders March Time in the first race. It was the first mount for him since leaving the service. Sarge Swenke, the veteran trainer, is reported to be feeling a little-better in Union Memorial Hospital, Baltimore, where he was operated upon last week. The conditioner of Alsab has had 14 blood transfusions since entering the hospital. The high esteem in which Swenke is regarded around the track was amply demonstrated by a collection taken by his friends. Donations were not solicited, but freely given by all when they heard of the fund. The Sarge would like to receive letters and cards, which can be addressed to the hospital, Calvert and 33rd St., Baltimore. . . . Ray Metcalf, acting for the Elkcam Stable, sold Lady Eleanor, a three-year-old. filly, to Eddie Doran Monday. The horse is entered today. Caterall Plans to Re-Enter Racing Albert Caterall, of New Bedford, Conn., who maintained the Bedford Stable a few years ago, was a visitor, conferring with Eddie Yowell. Yowell trained for the Bedford Stable, which was noted for the good performer Call Over, who won most of the stakes around Garden State Park a few falls ago. Caterall just returned from a three-month trip to Europe, which he toured by auto, piling up 11,000 miles on the speedometer. He plans to reenter the racing sport and spoke to Yowell about organizing a stable. . . . Johnny Wagner, one of the mainstays of the H. M. Stevens Company was back on the job after a 15-day trip to Germany to visit his folks. . Bill Foales saddled a nicely bred first-time starter in the second race Monday, a three-year-old daughter of Black Tarquin Thread o Gold. Unforunately she didnt run to her bloodlines, but improvement can be expected. Black Tarquin was a stakes winner in England for the Belair Stud and Thread o Gold will be remembered as a good race mare some 11 years ago. It was she and Vienna who teamed up as an entry in the Alabama Stakes of 1944 to defeat Calumet Farms Twilight Tear, a: l-to-20 chance that afternoon. Thread o Gold ran with the Calumet champion early in the famed filly race, softening her up for Viennas final surge.
