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DATES FOR BELMONT STAKES !■ « i i | i rs Metropolitan Handicap to Be Run on Opening Day, May 25. * I LJ Withers Stakes Set for May 31 — The 0,000 Belmont Set for Saturday, June 10. » r S J * NEW YORK. X. Y.. April 3.— Dates on which the various important stakes -ue clown for decision at the spring meeting of the Westchester Racing Association at Belmont Park have been made pbtl-Iie by racing secretary A. McL. Earlocker. For the opening day. Thursday. May 25. the star tit tract ion will be the Metropeditan Handicap, for three-year-olds and over at one mile. The Westchester Steeplcehase Handicap at about two miles will be run the same day. The Metropolitan has long been a feature of the spring period of racing on Jockey Club courses and it invariably brings to the post the pick of the horses in training. It is a fine test for the three-year-olds whiih are being pointed for the Withers and Bedmont Stakes. Mee-ting the best of the older horses give- owners a fine line on tiie capabilities of than stake candidates. Three-year-olds have won the Metropolitan in the past and may do it again this year. As will be seen from the stake dates listed belo.v the Bedmont. for three-year-olds, whie-h will !?:• worth 0,000 this year, will be decided on June; 10. along with the Keene Memorial, for two-year-olds. This race at a mile and three-eighths is the oldest of the three -year-old races run in this country. That other fine test of thoroughbred supremacy, the Suburban, for three-year-olds and over, at a mile and a aaarter, is down for decision along with the Fashion Stakes for Saturday. June 3. This is the ran which will bring out Grey Bag. Yellow Hand. Mad Hatter and other smashers in the handicap division. No race of the kind in the 1nited States has a finer tradition and there have been more head finishes in the Suburban than in any other of the big spring handicaps. The new 0,000 Charles B. Appleton Memorial Cup Steeplechase, which closed ricently with forty-six nominations, will lie run Saturday. May L7. The country has a limited supply of jumping material at present, but the pick of them will go to the post for this fine race, which is endowed by friends of the- late speertsman in whose memory it has been named. The Badies Handicap is another feature for the sane day. There was a slight falling off in the entries for the Steeplechase stakes of the Weste-hester Racing Association this year. The New York, whie-h was supplanted by the new stake, had forty-seven entries in 1S8L The Grand National closed witii thirty-two as against thirty-five, while the International has forty-thre-e H compared with forty-five. The 0,000 Brook Steeplechase, which will be decided at the autumn meeting, received sixty-six as compared with seventy-three. Following are the stake dates: Metropolitan Handicap. Thursday. May 25. Westchester Steeplechase Handicap, Thursday, May Hyde Park Handicap. Friday. May 26. Charles B. Appleton Memorial Steeplechase, Saturday. May 27. Badies Handicap. Saturday, May 27. Mlneola Handicap. Monday. May 29. Toboggan Handicap, Tuesday. May 30. Juvenile Stakes. Tuesday. Map 30. Withers Stake-. Weduesday. May 31. International Steeplechase, Thursday. June 1. Habyhai Handicap. Friday, June 2. Suburban Handicap. Saturday. June 3. Fashion Stakes. Saturday, June 3. Baysiele Handicap. Monday, June 5. The Bouquet Selling Sikes. Tttesday. June 6. Hollis Selling Slakes. Wednesday. June 7. Meadowbrook Steeplechase. Thursday. June 8. Cent report Handicap. Friday. June 9. Belmont Stakes. Saturday. June 10. Keene Memorial. Saturday. June 10. Harlem Selling Stakes, Monday. June 12. Garden City llandiiap, Tuesday. June 13. Gnad National Steeplechase. Wednesday. June 14. Coaching Club American Oaks. Thursday, June 15. • •
