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Texas Sportsmen to Race At Rockingham Meeting Reynolds Bros., Foster, Wyse Ready for Opener on July 4 SALEM, N. H., June 24. Deep in the heart of Texas are some of the finest racing stables in the country and 10-gallon hats will be very much in evidence when some of these top "Longhorh" campaigners participate in the 30-day Rockingham Park summer meeting, which opens July 4. At the moment, th Reynolds brothers have their stable, trained by Clyde Lock-lear, racing in New England- along with the prominent O. L. Foster, another native Texan. Rockingham will also have Fred Wyse, who is shipping 20 horses here from Omaha, arid numbered among them will be the New England favorite, Andromeda. Residents, of this area still recall Wyses Air Rate, who wras undefeated as a juvenile, and the Texas sportsmans Heres How, who ran away from Lady Gunner in their match race at Narragansett Part in 1945. Another big favorite was Stranded, who broke his maiden in the Myles Stan-dish Handicap at Narragansett. Wyse considers this string, of 20 that he-is shipping -here "the best that. X have shipped to Rockingham Park since 1946." Included in the two carloads of Wyse horses coming here are 10 two-year-olds; seven by Air Rate, three by Stranded. Wyse developed1 two crack jockeys, Walter Lee Taylor, runner-up to the late Earl Dew for the 1940 riding championship, and -Eric Guerin, one of Americas great money riders of today. Taylor and Guerin launched their riding careers in New England under Wyse. Wyse has been campaigning at Ak-Sar-Ben and other Midwestern tracks, but never misses the Rockingham meeting.
