First Suffolk Stake Will Be Run Today: Governors Handicap Brings Out Even Dozen--Star Copy Carries Top Weight of 120, Daily Racing Form, 1943-05-15

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Governors Handicap 5000 Three YearOlds and Upward One Mile PP Horse Jockey Wt WtT 1 Spiral Pass T Luther 116 116ELeBlanc 2 Samhar ELeBlanc 105 105W 3 Star Copy W Turnbull 120 120BThompson 4 Kingfisher BThompson 116 5 Eric Knight H Claggett 104 6 Itabo E LeBlanc 111 7 K Dorko C Wahler 109 8 Devalue M Pena 113 9 Incoming T Luther 110 10 Royal Flush H Trent 104 11 Firebroom D Scocca 115 12 Abbe Pierre K Sisto 114 114J J H Miles and C S Bromley entry Samhar Itabo First Suffolk Stake Will Be Run Today TodayGovernors Governors Handicap Brings Out Even Dozen Star Copy Carries Top Weight of 120 BOSTON Mass May 14 The Gover ¬ nors Handicap at one mile first on the stakes list at Suffolk Downs with 5000 added is Saturdays feature with an excel ¬ lent supporting program H P Metcalfs Star Copy hero of last seasons Lady Bal ¬ timore and Thomas K Lynch Memorial Handicaps and one of the leading thor ¬ oughbreds at Suffolk Downs will carry top weight in Saturdays renewal With Willie Turnbull in the saddle the fouryearold daughter of Trace Call heads 12 racers named overnight overnightStar Star Copys task is a severe one She is asked to meet such as Spiral Pass one of the queens of the 1942 colony and assigned 116 pounds Devalue winner of two in a row at Narragansett Park and scheduled to shoulder 113 Firebroom a consistent performer who will have a 115pound burden and Abbe Pierre K Dorko and Incoming IncomingOne One Coupling in Field FieldThere There is one coupling in the field Sam ¬ har and Itabo The latter was winner of the Rhode Island Handicap on the closing day of the Narragansett Park meeting Royal Flush who established the pace in the Pimlico Oaks seems well treated under her impost of 104 pounds Eric Knight delivered a shifty effort to land second in the Winthrop here on opening day dayA A newcomer to the local ranks is Mrs T Christophers Kingfisher vanned from New York for his Governors engagement Billy Thompson coming along to do the riding Incoming winner of the opening day Winthrop Handicap is back in the good form which distinguished his per ¬ formances earlier in his career and he also looms as one of the serious contenders in the event K Dorko a gifted sprinter is being asked to stretch his speed over the mile route and while the added distance may be beyond his capabilities he is cer ¬ tain to make things hum as far as he goes goesIt It is a wellbalanced field of thorough ¬ breds marking the eighth running of the stake Guest of honor as in the past will be Gov Leverett Saltonsall of the Com ¬ monwealth of Massachusetts who will wit ¬ ness the running from the stewards stand


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