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BELMONT TURF GOSSIP NEW YORK N Y June 1 1Rapture Rapture Harry Payne Whitneys candidate in the Oaks is en route to J3elmont Park Jockey Chalmers and trainer F Hopkins are due in today J J Murphy who recently lost Rusovia claimed Blue Spectacles from John Whalen on Monday for 3500 3500While While considerable care is exercised in the matter of Bracing silks there are combina ¬ tions of colors that are just about as alike as two peas This was shoyn in the running of the fifth race whien Sarappn and Shady Sadie could only be told apart by the casual racegoer because Shady Sadie wore white blinkers The description of tho Aictory Stable silks is dark blue white sash white bars on sleeves and white cap The Frank Taylor colors are black white sash hoops on sleeves and white cap There is not enough difference between dark blue and black to make these colors really different differentClyde Clyde Phillips who trains Saxon was held accountable under the rules for the mistake in weight of 112 sent out as the impost to be carried by the Greentree colt The mis ¬ take was discovered in the office of the rac ¬ ing secretary and the correction made on the notice board A rule of racing is that the trainers are held responsible for weight carried carriedCharles Charles Levy of Chicago was a clubhouse visitor of the day dayJohn John Loftus reported that Mino was jumped on this morning during a trial and cut down After a stablemate which jumped on him afterwards went wrong and Avill be thrown out of training for some time Conde another member of the stable is also on the shelf ailing ailingiwo iwo claims were filed in the first race to ¬ day I Bieber took Easy Money from the Greentree Stable for 4000 and C L Carroll claimed the winner Athel from Frederick Johnson JohnsonBarrett Barrett Haynes arrived from Toronto and will resume riding through the steeplechase field here