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* % New England By Fred Galianl • Junior Misses Ready for Pinafore Stakes Rose of Serro Lets La Rue Get Some Sleep The Crack Is Still Being Blamed for Fouls SUFFOLK DOWNS, East Boston, Mass., May 9.— Two-year-olds get their first chance at a stakes next week end, with junior misses set to engage in the 5- furlong Pinafore Stakes. The name was adopted last year, but was then for three-year-olds and up. The inaugural was won by B. A. Darios DandyBlitzen and the general manager of Lincoln Downs will be aiming for a repeat score in this springs version. His nominee is the record breaking Rose of Serro, who amputated a fifth of a second off Boxthorns nine-year-old mark of :47 for 4 furlongs. Rose of Serro is also an eligible for the Rancocas Stakes, at Garden State Park, the same day, and it is quite possible that trainer Bill La Rue may ship the Errard miss to Jersey for the stake. We are speculating that she will take a chance at what appears to be an easier prize here, even though La Rue has not been able to get a prep race into the filly since her record run. Our assumption, perhaps wrong, is based on the fact that Dandy Blitzen has already headed for New Jersey, where she has an engagement in the Colonial Handicap, while her younger stablemate is still here. La Rue refuses to commit himself. Racing secretary Arthur Hunt expects a good-sized field, with a number of local residents taking a shot at Rose of Serro, and is awaiting word from other points on invaders- Rose of Serro won one of four races in Florida before scoring here. If she adds the Pinafore to her record, an assist should go to her stallmate, a Sicilian donkey called Luigi. Rose of Serro has become affectionate. The Errard filly was a restless thing, and a notorious stall walker, according to La Rue. She defied all sorts of remedies to calm her down. Dogs, goats and chickens proved no solution. Even an appeal to feminine vanity wouldnt work in her case. The old trick of putting a mirror in the stallwalkers abode wrought nothing. La Rue even tried hanging water buckets and beer cans filled with water from the stall roof. Rose of Serro alternated between being an artful dodger and a Swiss bell ringer. Then La Rue bought Luigi, who stands only 36 inches high. Perhaps it was the awakening of a latent maternal instinct, but Rose of Serro has become virtually docile. She and Luigi are inseparable companions. Rose of Serro gets some sleep nights now and so does La Rue. Always the Fall Guy Reputations, especially of a derogatory nature, tend to snowball out of proportion. At least, that appears to be the case with Bayard Tuckerman Jr.s The Crack. The flashy looking, powerful chestnut colt, who was a crack stakes winner at three, has been involved in numerous byplays since he made his debut as a two-year-old. He won that race but was disqualified and since then has been in other altercations. Now it seems he is to be the culprit for everything. Theother day The Crack made his seasonal debut in a sprint. He got the lea4_right from the start, but tired in the drive and was beaten by the improving Moon Cloud. Immediately after getting back to the clerk of scales, jockey Phil Grimm, who rode the fourth place Barroco, claimed a foul against The Crack, alleging interference coming away from the gate. The stewards dismissed the claim. The motion pictures showed The Crack coming away from the gate straight and true. Grimm was bothered all right, but by another horse. But with one like The Crack in the race, why seek for a further offender? The Crack was completely exonerated and Grimm later apologized to trainer Junior Bresnahan for his mistaken accusations. The Crack has been gelded this season. In his debut he ran a straight course through the race and, though beaten, indicated he will be tough later on. The chestnut is a game sort and the pride of Bresnahan. The Crack is a demon on a hard track, but will not run on anything that is even slightly cuppy. He might be seen for that reason in New Jersey later on. It was at Monmouth and Atlantic City that he captured stakes as a three-year-old. At any rate, lets hope that The Crack doesnt get blamed for everything that happens in a race from now on. Roy Takes Over Glassners Book Candy boy Jake Rutkin has taken on a Gallic bent. He has adopted a beret these days, which has naturally given him a new name — Pierre. He is currently pushing his latest shoe polish enterprise and with his snazzy beret and prohibition era overcoat hes the weirdest dressed shoeshine boy on the course. . . . Ray Roy has taken over the engagement book of jockey George Glassner, while his first string rider, Dave Gorman, is fighting to get down to riding weight. Gorman, for a long time one of the nations better riders, will be a welcome addition to the daily fare here if he ever wins his prodigious struggle with extra avoirdupois. He is working horses constantly in the morning to slice off some poundage and keep in riding trim. . . . Sid Bernstein sold Scarlet Ibis to H. M. Fox in a private transaction. . . . Bernard W. Landy, Chicago advertising executive, and his wife, Marilyn, both of whom have horses racing here under Alex Johnston, will fly in from Illinois on Sunday for a few days of sport.
