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VITO AND VICTORIAN OUT Two Crack Eastern Colts Meet With Mishaps and Will Not Start in Dwyer Stakes. NEW YORK, N. Y., June 28— Vitn, winner of the Belmont Stakes for A. H. Cosden, will I be on the shelf for some time. The big colt went amiss in a trial at Belmont Park this morning. He was being "prepped" for the Dwyer Stakes to be run at Aqueduct on Saturday. Trainer Hirsch had decided on a mile and a half work and Vito, with Weiner in the saddle, ran the first mile in 1:43% and was galloping along easily when, about a sixteenth from the finish of the trial, he apparently stepped into a hole, for Weiner felt him flinch and falter. However, he was timed for the mile and a half in 2 :36, a splendid work. The colt, when pulled up, apparently walked out of his trouble and showed no signs of lameness until the stable was reached. Upon examination by trainer Hirsch tendon trouble was discovered. Hirsch immediately got into communication with owner Cosden. The latter took the misfortune in a sportsmanlike way and stated that it was all part of the game. While Vito has not been declared out of the Dwyer Stakes, there is scant chance that he will start. Later in the day it was discovered that Victorian, the best three-year-old in the East, would also be an absentee in the running of the Dwyer Stakes. The Whitney colt also met with an injury that will keep him away from the post. One of his legs filled rather badly and it has been decided that he will not be sent to the post. With two such colts out of the way the big prize will lose much of its interest, for it promised to be a sequel to the Belmont Stakes, in which Vito was the winner and the Whitney colt well beaten. The deflection of these two good colts will give Willis Sharpe Kilmers Sun Beau a great chance for victory.
