The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-11
INAUGURAL STAKES
 AT SALEM FOB
 KEENLY COMPETED
American and National Events at Rockingham Starting July %

Salem, ". n. - tDpectbD 4Ao inaugural American and National three-year-old trots, to be staged at Rockingham Parks Grand Circuit meeting. July 2e-August IF. among 80 other fast events. are anybody's races as a result of the victories chalked up in Cleveland's rich Ma tron and Championship Stallion Stakes according to Allan J. Will son, in charge of the harness races here.
 Every fast-stepping trotter which Spencer McE1wyn beat in winning the Matron Stake, together with the fancy colts and Allies which Mary Reynolds ,dusted off to cop the Championship Stallion Stake, are candidates for the $5,000 Amer ican Stake No and it's companion National Stake No 1. These events, sponsored by the Trotting Horse Club, also include 20 eligibles for the $5O,000 Hambleton Stake, to be raced at Goshen, N. Y. August 18th following the Salem meeting.
 King Ben Surprises
 Little surprise was felt when Spencer McElwyn, leading two- year-old trotter of 1892, spun on victory in the Matron Stroke at Cleveland, although King Bens showing in winning the first heat in 2:04 2-5 made the harness world sit up and notice that w. H. Canes colt was a serious contender for big honors this season.
 But when Mary Reynolds, owned by W. N. Reynolds, trotted away with the $11,500 Stallion Stake, leaving Spencer McElwyn trailing in fourth place, with King Ben out Raging Grand' discovered 1t had another swift rival for top rating at Toledo, Rockingham Park, in the Hambleton and throughout the major harness loop.
 King Ben's feat in trotting away with the first heat of the Matron Stake in 2:O4 2-5 stands as the fast est heat clocked thus far this year in a three-year-old trot on the Grand Circuit. When the Cane colt threw shoe in the second heat, after being given an excellent chance to cop the event, Spencer McElwyn whirled home in 2:05 2-5. Mary Reynolds, claiming vic- tory in the Stallion Stakes with heats of 2:05 and 2:06. beat Spen- cer McElwyn's time, but did not equal King Berl's.
 With the Cleveland classics out of the way, any one of those three trotters figuring prominently m them have a good chance to win at Salem in the American and Nation al Stakes, horsemen agree, but such trotters as Brown Berry, Hol- Iywood Portia and volga Hanover are not going to trail far behind if it's behind at all. Sir Raleigh, rated with Spencer McElwyn as 9 2 to 1 favorite for the Hambletons ian, is certain to make the field step lively here, although he has not yet shown what he can do this season.
 Entries in the American Stake No 1, to be raced at Rockingham Park the week of July 31st in- .clude. Calument Dawson. Prince Hall, Lincoln Spencer, Atlantic volo, Calumet Donald, Hollywood Portia, Calumet Dallas. King Ben, Calumet Devine, Irene Hanover, .volga Hanover, Meurice. Spencer McElwyn, Calumet Delco. Brown Berry, Poplar Hill. Ettaoia, Mary HeynOlQS, mcOds mdIAdisS @AA SsA Raleigh.
 All but Calumet Delco are eli- gible to the Humbletonian Stake. This lone outsider, however, is certain to cause loss of sleep in New England before he Is beaten-- if he ever is. Calumet Delco. as the champion two-year-old trotter on half-mile tracks last year, may slide away here with some of the glory which the other trotters have been acquiring in their travels on the mid-western sector of the Grand Circuit.
 Entries in the National stake No 1, to be raced here the week of August 7th, coincide with those In the American Stake with the ex- ception of Ettaola, who is not en- tered in the former event. In addi- tion to the American and National Stakes No 1, the Trotting Horse club is sponsoring the first renewal of the two-year-old trotting and two-year-old pacing divisions of the American and National Stakes No 2.