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PLEASING PROGRAM AT BELMONT PARK. Famous Old Stakes Among the Fixtures to Be Decided This "Week— Maskette a Likely Starter. This wiiks racing prospect at New York is dis_ tinctly phasing. Two of the famous old stakes ,f t ie tori are to be inn the Ladies and the Withers. lie- Ladles stalls is no w at a mile for three-year-old fill lea. and the pleasant thing about the one to 1m run on Thursday »f this week is that Masketti mav he si en racing lor the first time this year. Maskette is one of the good Kcene horses that was not shipped from this side to race in Lugland this anon. If there was nothing else to start in the Ladies Slkes this voir but Maskette and a ruiiner-up or two. the three tear old lillv event would Ik- of much Interest, ho Maskette was the sort of two-year old thai foil little short of being an idol of the racing public She was 1 eaten ill tile Flatbnsh, it is true. but Sir Mai tin beat her. and Sir Martin is now second choice for the English Derby. Maskette has been pointed for the Ladies Stakes and there is erery reason to believe that she will start on Kntnrdaiy sin- worked tit Bheenabead Bay a mile in 1:42! and she was well in hand all the way. fie- Withers is another mile feature that has ion.; been a famous event in the early racing season. Its running last season, when Colin beat Fair Play and Km" .limes i- fresh in the Memory of race-corn. The witlttii | Memorial Steeplechase is the other special feature of the weeks racing to come, and with tin- Withers will form an attractive program for Saturday, other interesting stakes and handicap* are the Bouquet ami the Crotona Handicap Tuesday and the Norwood on Thursday. For the Crotona Handicap Jack Atkin is top weight with 13S liomnls and King James has 194, Other .sprinters of quality in this event are Da Mund. Fav iltc. Pita Herbert. Trance. Half Sovereign. Nimbus. Turncoat and Field Mouse.
