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New Jersey ." By Fred Galiani Long Branch Cap Honors Neighboring Town Skipper Bill and Tellarian Main Entrants Governor Meyners Mother Takes In Sport MONMOUTH PARK, Oceanport, N. J., June 25. — The imposing stakes list at this course, continues Wednesday with the running of the Long Branch first event to be first event to be Handicap, the contested at a distance, this time the route being a mile and one-sixteenth. Eight have been entered for the affair, which honors the neighboring town of Long Branch, and among the entrants are George Wideners Tellarian and Circle M Farms Skipper Bill, both of whom had qualifications for this race. Tellarians name is etched on the books as holder of the world record of 1:39% for a mile and 70 yards, while Skipper Bill holds the track mark for the distance with a score in the Long Branch last year. Skipper Bill turned in a good performance in the recent Salvator Mile, in which he finished second to the record-breaking Nahodah under 118 pounds. Obviously Skipper Bills class has not escaped the racing secretarys scrutiny as John Turner Jr. has assigned the seven-year-old son of Errard 120 pounds, and from all indications it appears that he has not erred in any respect. Skipper Bills lone winning race in eight starts this year came in a seven-furlong test at Hialeah, but under Jack Longs handling this time-tested campaigner is always ready for a good effort, and the Long Branch should be the spot for him to get back into the winners circle. Cedrus Bids for Fourth Triumph Tellarian, after fracturing the world record in. the Valley Forge Handicap at Garden State Park, competed unsuccessfully in the Carter and Metropolitan handicaps, but rigged at 117 poundSr-is a dangerous sort in the Long Branch tomorrow.- This is not to imply that the Long Branch is by any means a two-horse race, because there are some contenders in the presence of Cedrus, Ambiguous, Combustion II., War of Roses, Beau Fond and Bomb Boo, who complete the field, and any one of them is eligible to come up with a victory. Cedrus has three triumphs to his credit this year, including one in the Laurel Handicap and one over the strip, and conceivably is the one most likely to turn the tables on the topweight and his main contender. Monmouths stakes thus far have all brought forth interesting results, not to mention two new track marks, and the Long Branch should follow in the normal pattern. Skipper Bills track mark of 1 :41 for the distance, however, may stand the onslaught of not only himself but his rivals as in recent days the local course has apparently been somewhat slowed up and the times recorded in the past few days have not been on the sensational side as early in the session. But track records in themselves are not too important, and the Long Branch should furnish an interesting contest for the mid-weeks gathering. Monmouth Shorts: Mrs. Sophie Meyner, mother of the states chief executive, was the honored guest on Monday on the occasion of her birthday. She presented the trophy to the winning owner of the featured race Bill Mitchell has returned the victorious Bolero U. from Delaware, where he won the Dover Stakes, and the corking looking chestnut is being prepped for the Tyro Stakes here on July 4. Legal entanglements having been, if at least not settled, somewhat cleared up has enabled Mitchell to start the horse in, the late Jack McKnights daughters name, Salena Kirkstadt. . . The Dover was the third stakes for Bolero. U., who continues to be one of the best juveniles shown so far this year. . . . Jack Purcell, president of the Puett Starting Gate Corporation, dropped in -Monday after completing a transcontinental tour of the U.S. in the interests of his company. He was a lunoh-eon guest of president Amory Haskell and general manager Ed Brennan. Abundance of Maiden Homebreds Jersey-breds got a chance Monday with the second and third races being carded for them. With entries being slow to fill, 19 local breds were entered for the maiden affair, at least showing there are enough of them around ready to run. . . . Pokey T.i who ran third in second race, is named for Walter Turnier Jr., son of the horse identifier Melody Mine, who bucked a few weeks back, has recovered completely according to trainer William Hal Bishop and should be able to fill her engagement in Saturdays Colleen Stakes. . . . Castle Rock Farms Mr. First, second to Nashua in last seasons Monmouth Handicap, has suffered a wrenched tendon and has been sent to the farm at Ardmore, Pa. to recuperate. . . . Oliver Cutshaw, currently riding in good form at Delaware, will be here to handle Elkcam Stables Hubcap in the Tyro. Trainer Ray Metcalf reports that his charge had somewhat of a rough trip in the Dover, in which he finished third, and predicts a better race in the stakes. . . . Phil Baker, general managerpf Atlantic £ity,. was up the first day of the week and spent a busy day in the hand shaking department. Information from Charley Johnson reveals that Pimlicos JLou Pondfield has made an offer to Walter M. Jeffords, president of the National Museum of Racing, to move Pimlicos entire jockeys hall of fame gallery to the museum, at the Spa during the month of August so that the many racing fans there can inspect the portraits and memorabilia. . . . Note from Ed Zantker, of Lexington, points out that a recent item here here mentioned Venomous and Mi Model in one day, a coincidence since he bred the dams of both fillies, and more so since Zantker doesnt breed more than four foals a year. . . . Harold "Red" Keene continues to roll along in good style and has now ridden 2,187 winners before the start of this weeks racing. Keene ranks high up on the list of the worlds top riders in amount of winners and is now working toward the 3,000 mark.
