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New England By Fred Galiani Trainer Phil Utman High on Recent Purchase To Name Barroco for All New England Stakes Italian Born Rider to Ply Trade at Suffolk SUFFOLK DOWNS, East Boston, Mass., May 14. During the early part of this meeting trainer Phil Utman purchased Barroco for 6,000 and so far the four-year-old colt has done nothing but support Utmans idea that he made a good buy. Since joining Utmans entourage, Barroco has finished fourth, then the other day was an impressive winner over Double Bid and Motor Line in one of the tightest races of the session. Utman, enthused over the horses progress, has decided to nominate his charge for all the stakes in the later part of the session, including the 5,000 Massachusetts Handicap. This may be aspiring to Olympian heights, but Utman feels it is worth a chance. Apprentice Roland Vincifora, the Italian born rider who won his first race at New Orleans this winter and since has added some more at Churchill Downs, will report here Monday after the close of the Kentucky track. Vincifora is under contract to Odie Clelland. . . . The Hot Walkers Association will hold a track and field day here on May 31, a Sunday. Judge Pappas has donated prizes to be given to the winners. Six events will be staged. . . . Trainer Mackie Prickett will bring the fleet Mrs. Hellen back here from Garden State Park after Saturdays Colonial Handicap. But it looks like she will be mainly a boarder as there are no more stakes left here for her and it is doubtful if any overnight sprints for fillies and mares will fill for her. Thats the penalty of having a decent horse in these parts. There are so few of them that it is tough to muster any opposition and most races written for better horses go into the discard. Stout Visits His Iron Horse Frank Stout was an early morning visitor today after a trip to Maryland and West Virginia. In Maryland he stopped at Col. Marcus farm where Alerted is standing in stud. Alerted, of course, was the noted stakes winner who performed so admirably for Stout. Alerted is now syndicated and Stout retains six shares in the "iron" horse. The Maiden automobile dealer is only racing a few horses at the present, at Shenandoah Downs, but he has his eyes cast on the future. Stout has two yearlings, in whom he is placing great faith One is a colt by Alerted and the other a filly by Call Over. While on his tour, Stout stopped off for some night racing at Shenandoah and spoke well of the new night plant. . . . Jockey who should get more mounts is veteran Danny Meehan. Meehan, now 35, rode for five years before the war with Max Hirsch, and later for Sport Haymaker. Meehan is doing the riding for Gus Morays horses and at Lincoln Downs won three races out of 10 mounts. There may be substitutes for nature, but they are merely that. Some tracks may resort to the deceptive practice of painting their grass, but colorful as it may seem, it cant take the place of what, is natural. -At the moment Suffolk Downs boasts a golden infield, more than one half of the entire area flaming with dandelions. Saffron coloring has far outstripped the green. Even the turf course is busting out in yellow buds, but they will soon be trampled under by flying hoofs. But for the few days the dandelions are in bloom, Suffolk presents a picture hard to beat at any race track. This must be sons achievement week. No sooner had we commented on Arthur Pattersons boys swimming exploits, than trainer Red Kelly Wickham was up in the press box displaying clippings of his son Steves grand feat in pitching Tolman High School to their sixth straight victory. The Tolman gang are defending state champions in th Rhode Island league. Young Wickham is ignoring the race track career, however, and his post graduate work will be done in the Air Force, for which he has already enlisted. . . . Patrol Judge Gerry Burke worked valiantly for days under a severe cold, but finally succumbed to the bug and had to return to New York. He is confined to his Long Island home for a week or so. In the meantime, his place in the stretch stand is being taken by Jimmy Boucher, the former rider now a member of the officials staff. Point Spanish Dandy for Stakes Bill Purver, trainer of the W. J. Beattie outfit, plans to start Spanish Dandy, surprise winner in the slop here the other day, in the 5,000 Suffolk Downs Anniversary Stakes on May 23. . . . The four horses Kenny Burkhart shipped in from Churchill Downs were Protocall, Isakent, Shame on You and Southern Ami. . . . E. T. Garcia shipped the horses he had here for himself and Clarence Cusmano to the MRA meeting at the Detroit course. Garcia is a regular on the Detroit beat. Big horse of the Garcia string is the gray performer The Collier. . . . Liz-Tree Stables Necromancer, who contested The Puritan and Suffolk Downs Turf Handicap, was shipped back to Pimlico by trainer Francis Ogden. . . . Ted Dooley, assistant racing secretary at Narragansett, was a routine visitor, checking on the stall applications for the Pawtuckett meeting.
