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BELMONT PARK STAKE RACING THIS WEEK One more week of racing at Belmont Park remains to be disposed of and then comes the Brooklyn Jockey Clubs meeting at Gravescnd The racing of tomorrow will bring out the society folks in swarms the Aniatenr Cup and Meadow Brook Hunt ¬ ers Steeplechase appealing strongly to the fashion ¬ able element The names of the probable starters appear among the entries published today todayTwo Two important events are to be run off Tuesday afternoon the Laureate Stakes for twoyearolds at flye furlongs and the Cosmopolitan Handicap for threeyearolds and over at one mile and a sixteenth Of the sixtyfour ellgibles to the Laureate Uncle Jim Marse Abo J II Reed High Private Bon HOinme Statesman Schleswig Rossfenton Dander and May River have already run well in races and it may be that Marse Abe will make his eastern debut here He has been working well of late The Commonwealth is a sequel race to the Metropolitan and having 5000 added is a valuable affair Jack Atkin is topweight nt 129 pounds being set to carry more weight than such stars as Ballot 120 Nealoii 124 Charles Edward 122 Montgomerey 122 and Frank Gill 119 severe handicapping and not justi ¬ fied by the horses performances McCarter is given 11 imunds Celt 112 Hessian 109 Dandelion IOC Jim Gaffney 105 King James 102 Fair Play 100 Restlgouclie 9 Magazine 97 and Lawrence P Daley 00 It will not be at all surprising if some one of these highclass threeyearolds win the race The Ladies Stakes for threeyearold fillies and the International Steeplechase will be the stake features of Wednesday The Ladies is a dash of a mile with 5000 added with Beckon Half Sov ¬ ereign Whip Top Anonyma Mombassa Keep Mov ¬ ing Jersey Lightning and Stamina prominent in its list of ellgibles Maximilian Gtis Straus Kara Touchwood Sandy Creeker Palm Grandpa Bay ¬ onet Sanctus Dr Logan Mr MeCann John M P und Sheriff Williams arc among the good jumpars in the International The Gaiety Stakes for two r yearold fillies and the Jockey Club WeightforAge Race will be run Thursday Trance Fieldmouse Gladys Loniso Copper Princess Arionette Melissa Arhittvc Silk Hose Wildpigeon Miss Highland Gliding Belle arid Hahduia aro in the Gaiety and such cracks as Colin Montgomery Ballot Jack Atkin Frilrik Gill Ncalon Charles Edward Celt 31m Gnffney Hessian Baby Wolf and Fair Play are in the Jockey Club WeightforAge Race It Is a dash Of a mile anil an eighth and may prove a battle of giants giantsThe The New Roclielle Handicap at seven arid a half furlongs will be decided Friday Rifleman Magazine Jim Gaffney Grapple Halket Notasulga Colloquy Rosebejj Cressina Restlgouche Caltochon King James McCarter Explosion Spooner De Mund Dr Gardner Zlenap and Running Account are among the m eedy ones In tills event Saturday will l e the dMlngXtaV of tUe meeting and with the National StalHoa Stakes Belmont Stakes Grand National Steetrtfecbftse a TVt Cortlandt on the card will be rfrthMortMrt air Mwttai CMM SeleetKu and Ogemah arc the best of the National Stallion candidates that have started but there are a num ber of reputed cracks in reserve for tills race The Belmont is the most famous race of the American turf for threeyearolds and Is of the guaranteed value of 25000 Colin Uncle Fair Play Alfred Noble Bar None Jim Gaffney Doraute Meellck RestigoucI e King James Beancoup and Stamina are prom lent eliglbles The Grand National Stee ¬ plechase 1 as nominations of the principal jumpers of the time and the Van Cortlandt has nominations of the sai 10 horses that have already figured in the Crotona ai d Claremont Handicaps
