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c j j I " New England By Joe Hirsch Straight Face to Seek Governors Reserve Our Pleasure for Stakes Tale of Music Lover Care Free NARRAGANSETT PARK, Pawtucket, R. I., June 28. The Curtain-Dropper: Gov. Dennis Roberts and Greentrees Straight I j j Face are both expected to be .on hand for Saturdays 5,000 added Governors Handicap at nine furlongs. This stake, which has had 20 renewals since it was first run in 1934 and has been won by such accomplished performers as Good Goods, Mucho Gusto, Stagehand, War Relic and Pilaster, brings Nar- . ! ragansetts summer session to a close. Ty Sheas weights, released the other day, have Jet Action and Sub.ahdar at the head of the class with 126 pounds, Straight Face next at 123. The latter, fresh from a sparkling second in Aqueducts Edgemere last Saturday, is likely to be starting top-weight. Other invaders could include Mrs. Ethel Jacobs Edgemere winner Paper Tiger and Wheatley Stables Full Flight. For the home folks, John Cavals Amyn Bey, the striking son of the 1948 French Derby winner Bey, who captured the Commonwealth Handicap over Suffolk Downs grass course and the King Philip over the main strip at this oval, gets in with 118. Shea has other prospects, foreign and domestic; the Governors could develop into one of the most interesting stakes of the New England season. The Colt: Our Pleasure isthe pride of Greenbrier Stable. The two-year-old son of With Pleasure from the Menow mare Me Again ran a big second behind Decathlon in the Narragansett Nursery here on Saturday and came very close to winning: the whole thing:. An ,500 purchase at Keenelands 1954 fall sales, Our Pleasure is still lacking: in racing: experience. Hes started three times, has . a first, a second and a third to show for it. Trainer Mark Harris calls him the best colt hes ever handled at a com-, parable stage in his career, intends to race him sparingly this summer, reserve him for several stakes at Hialeah in February. Harris has nine here including three other youngsters. One, Bit o Mama, by Wait A Bit from Mama C, a homebred, hasnt started. Greenbrier is expanding its breeding activities, keeps a few mares at Harry Parrs place in Holly Beach, Md., and stands a stud, Fairforall at Jack Wards Ward Acres Farm in New Rochelle, N. Y .Fairforall won five races in eight starts in England, was brought to this country, prevented from reaching the races by a series of mishaps but trained brilliantly and Mark says hes the best hes ever saddled. He had a full book this year, his first in stud. Harris, a veteran conditioner who galloped horses for Colonel Bradley, got his trainers license back at old Tiajuana. He hails from White Sulphur Springs, Va., and when searching for a suitable name for the stable, recalled the towns leading hotel. Sounds a lot better than the Waldorf-Astoria Stable, too. The Song: Saratogas recent bolting midway in the Providence Stakes touched off a wave of reminiscences in these parts concerning opinionated horses of other time and one noted official went back to the days when he was racing in Florida for the story about Care Free, who frequently pulled similar pranks when he was in the lead. Only the original owner, the elder George Alexandra, could handle him and when he was claimed, as was frequently the case, the haltermen were Continued on Page Fifty-One - New England h By JOE HIRSCH Continued from Page Seyen glad to get rid of him. U. S. Wishard, an- . other veteran horseman," reached in one day and took him but like the others ! couldnt do anything with Care Free. On one occasion he searched out Alexandra for help, and Alex agreed to give him the real lowdown. Wishard followed instructions diligently, Care Free broke like a i frightened fawn, was six in front at the far turn when he propped and stopped i completely. After the race, Wishard charged Alexandra, asked "How come?" i "Did you give him the apples like I told you," Alex inquired. "Sure did," said J Wishard. "Did you have the jockey sing to him?" Alex asked again. Wishard nodded assent and added, "all the way to the gate." "Well what did he sing?" Alex pressed. "Well, dum-de-dum-de-dum... hummed Wishard. "Why you damn fool," Alexandra snorted, "that was " the wrong song!" Around the Track: John Melanson reports that his hard- hitting sprinter Noch Eins is training well at Melpet Farm on Cape Cod and should be ready for the races in the near future. Melanson, a pioneer Yankee horseman who saddled 43 winners and accounted for over 00,000 in purses last season, also has four sucklings on the place, two colts and two fillies. One of the colts is by Bull Dandy from the good mare Ring Curtain, dam of Melansons Melpet . . . T. P. Morgan, the Texan, will send his able handicap ace Ezio to Rockingham Park for the session which opens July 4. Stanley Greene will train the colt. . .Charley Smith, racing secretary at. Scarborough Downs, arrived yesterday morning and will be on hand until he leaves for the Maine oval Thursday. Smith recently returned from Cumberland, Md., where he served as an official. . .Eddie Anspach purchased the mare In Taste from Joe Purpura and sent her to Doug Davis High Hope Farm in Kentucky for breeding purposes. . .Jimmy OBrey shipped a draft of 12 horses to Rockingham Park while Wingy McDermott sent five to Randall in Cleveland. . .B. A. Dario i ill and will be unable to meet with HBPA officials on their inspection tour of the Lincoln backstretch Wednesday night but track superintendent Art Patenaude will be present to serve as a guide. ..Morrie Sidell noted that his good stakes campaigner News Again, who scored in Monmouths 0,000 Longfellow exactly one year ago, is still bothered by a sore mouth but appears to be on the road to recovery.
