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BE A UTIFUL BELMONT PARK OPENS TOD A Y Many Surprises in Store for Patrons of Westchester Association Course Turf Feast of Unrivalled Splendor Awaits New York Racing Followers Toboggan and Inter ¬ national Steeplechase Inaugural Features NEW YORK N Y May 18 The racing scene in the metropolitan area will shift to beautiful Belmont Jark where a program of great richness awaits turf lovers of the East EastThose Those who have not seen Belmont Park this spring will be astonished at the improvements that have been inaugurated since last fall It deserved the appel ¬ lation Beautiful Belmont long ago but with much greater force today As has Probable Toboggan Handicap Field NEW YORK N Y May 18 Following are the probable starters in the Tobaggon Handicap feature race of the inaugural program at Belmont Park Thursday together with their weights trainers owners and probable riders Horse Wgt Rider Owner Trainer TrainerMACAW MACAW 127 C Hummer H P Whitney J Rowe Jr JrADIOS ADIOS 108 G Ellis Greentree Stable C Phillips PhillipsSARMATICUS SARMATICUS 114 L McAtee Aknusti Stable G M Odom OdomSHUFFLE SHUFFLE ALONG 107 M Mergler A C Bostwick J W Healy HealySANKARI SANKARI 112 L Fator Rancocas Stable S C Hildreth HildrethCOLOR COLOR SERGE ANT Ill J Josiah H P Whitney J Rowe Jr JrWHATLL WHATLL I DO 97 W Partington K E Hitt T Rodrock RodrockPO PO WHATAN 107 W Fronk W J Salmon T J Healey HealeyAMBERJACK AMBERJACK 104 J Callahan Belair Stud J Fitzsimmons FitzsimmonsPANTELLA PANTELLA 106 A Abel H P Whitney J Rowe Jr JrLANDLORD LANDLORD 95 0 Fletcher A C Bostwick J W Healy HealyPOMPEY POMPEY 120 F Coltiletti W R Coe W H Karrick KarrickCHANCE CHANCE PLAY 128 E Sande J E Widener P Coyne been the case for several years the Toboggan Handicap 5000 added and the International Steeplechase Handicap 2500 added are the features of the opening day of the Westchester Racing Associations spring meeting Both of these events closed with a splendid list of entries and they cannot fail to furnish superb sport 1 Fridays program will be made up of overnight events with the Freeport Handicap 1200 added at seveneights for threeyearolds as the feature featureSaturdays Saturdays card will have the Keenc Memorial 2500 added for twoyearolds at four and a half furlongs and the Ladies Handicap 2500 added for fillies and mares threeyearolds and upwards at one mile as attractions attractionsSome Some of the best juveniles of the year will make their initial bow in the former the eligibles comprising the pick of the leading stables Mowlee the young giant from the Rancocas Stable is a sure starter in this event and he will take a lot of beating It is just possible that President Widener will show some of his Stefan the Great twoyear olds for the first time on this occasion i iThe The Ladies Handicap cannot help being a good race as it is many years since the American turf has had so many good mares in training The pick of the nominations for the Ladies include Pandera Be Fair Sales ¬ lady Black Curl Lodina Corvette Fair Star War Feathers Black Maria Flambino Selene Circlet Bonnie Maginn Charade Bonnie Khayyam Flechita and Tigress TigressIlllILLIANT IlllILLIANT IXAUG Ult AL ALTo To many the New York season does not begin until the opening of the meeting of the Westchester Racing Association at Bel ¬ mont Park That season begins at the beau ¬ tiful Nassau County track Thursday aft ¬ ernoon and the opening card is one holding promise of excellent sport The Metropolitan Jockey Club whetted the appetite for what is to come and the meeting at Jamaica was a tremendously successful one though the weather was anything but favorable for out ofdoor sport sportThe The feature of the opening day is the To ¬ boggan Handicap a threequarters mile dash over the Widener Course which is a straight ¬ away and the thirteen that were named over ¬ night offer rich promise fora worthy renewal Chance Play is the top weight with 12S pounds and right under him comes H I Whitneys Macaw with 127 pounds Pompey which did not exactly measure up a a three yearold will probably make his first ap pearance of 1927 in this race and his impost Continued on sixteenth pace BELMONT PARK OPENS TODAY Continued from first page is 120 pounds Then there is Sarmaticus win ¬ ner of the 1926 running to carry 114 pounds and on through the list may be found the best of the sprinters sprintersIn In addition to the Toboggan Handicap a companion feature is the International Steeplechase Handicap with eight named Some of these had some degree of seasoning at the recent Pimlico meeting while others have been training well for the race Bel ¬ mont Park marks the opening of the steeple ¬ chase season in New York and the entries for the International Steeplechase Handicap hold out promise that the racing through the field will be better than in several years yearsThe The other races of the afternoon offer an attractive setting for the features and with the promised good weather and fast track the big course is sure to have a great open ¬ ing ingMuch Much has been written of the beauty of the surroundings at Belmont Park but not half has been told and the patrons are in for some pleasant surprises when they jour ¬ ney to the course The bare distances have been delightfully softened and reduced by the lavish planting of trees and shrubbery and the lake in the infield has added its touch of beauty and all is in readiness for the big opening openingNot Not a few of the stables that remained in Maryland until the conclusion of the Pim ¬ lico meeting rather than ship to New York for the Jamaica sport have their stables on hand and it will be a meeting of the best horses that have been campaigned and the best that have been reserved for a first start at the course of the Westchester Racing As ¬ sociation sociationTrain Train arrangements from both the Penn ¬ sylvania station and Flatbush station in Brooklyn are much the same as those that obtained through the first meeting of the New York season while the auto routes to the course are various and excellent
