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BELMONT PARK THE GOAL ♦ Star Thoroughbreds Pointing for Handicaps at Big Track. ♦ Toboggan, Metropolitan and Suburban toe Objectives — Victorian, in New Stable, Among Candidates. • NEW YORK, N. Y., May 15— Victorian son of Whisk Broom II and Prudery, Is pointing for specials to be run at Belmont Park during the meeting that will begin on May 17 and continue until June 10, but he will appear under colors other than the eton blue and brown of Harry Payne Whitney, which he bore to victory in the last springs revival of the Withers. He is one of the three horses purchased a fortnight ago from Whitney by Silas Mason and W. A. Hanger, railroad constructors and bridge builders, of New York. The other two are the three-year-olds The Nut and Cady Hill. Victorian is in the Toboggan Handicap, a ,000 sprint of six furlongs over the Wide-ner straightaway course that will be the opening day feature ; the Metropolitan, a ,000 dash of one mile set for May 25, and the Suburban, a 0,000 gallop of one mile and a quarter, which will be revived June 1. Victorian was held at a valuation of 00,000 last winter. James Rowe has turned him over to Joe Notter, who will train for the new firm, in superb condition. He was not better last year the day he took up 117 pounds at Aqueduct and galloped one mile and an eighth in front of Diavolo. Sepoy and six or seven others through mud up to his fetlocks in 1 :50 flat in a renewal of the Brookdale Handicap. MAY BE DISTANCE RUNNER. The Nut, a son of Mad Hatter and Afternoon, is as fit as Victorian, and probably will go farther than the little Whisk Broom II stallion can. He looks like a natural distance runner as his daddy, the winner at Belmont Park of two Jockey Cub Gold Cup renewals was before him. He and Cady Hill, whose sire was Pennant and whose dam was that dazzling miler Crocus, are in the Withers and Belmont ; also, the Toboggan, the Swift, the Metropolitan and the Suburban. The Nut may make the Suburban with Victorian. Cady Hill, whose forte last season was sprinting, is pretty sure to go in the Toboggan, Metropolitan and Withers. The new firm affects the alias Warm Stable. Max Hirsch will bring up from Maryland two thoroughly conditioned Metropolitan and Suburban candidates in Sortie and Kentucky II. These belong to Charles Schwartz, who is adding to his stable by purchases in England and France. Sortie, an American-bred four-year-old claiming On Watch for sire and Kippy for dam, is better, if possible, than he was last September when he went one mile and a quarter in 2:04?s in a revival of the Twin City Handicap. Hirsch says that Kentucky II., an English-bred son of Royal Canopy and Naisha, and a better horse than Royal Canopy has contributed to racing since he came to this country, is as good as he was two years ago when he defeated Chance Shot and Bois de Rose in a renewal of the Dwyer Stakes at Aqueduct. SON OF EPSOM DERBY WINNER. Hirsch was unable to bring the imported four-year-old Cohort, a son of Grand Parade and Tetrabbazia, belonging to Mrs. Herbert Pulitzer, of New York, to the post at Havre de Grace as fit as either Sortie or Kentucky II., but he believes this outlander will be ready for something against his return to the big course. It is strongly probable that in Cohort Mrs. Pulitzer has a handicap horse of much better than average abilities. A strapping bay by an Epsom Derby winner, Cohort won two of the four races in which he started in England last year. And in the last, a revival of the Scarborough Stakes at Doncaster, he shouldered 131 pounds and galloped a mile in 1 :36% in front of Somer Moone, Glenhazel and Fire Ball. Hirsch believes that this outlander, which was at Belmont Park all winter, is thoroughly acclimatized. Petee-Wrack, another Maryland spring campaigner, looks better than he did at Saratoga last summer when he defeated Victorian, Sun Edwin and Reigh Count in a revival of the Travers. This big son of Wrack and Marguerite has filled out noticeably. He has lost the gawky awkwardness that some objected to last year. He will go much better through the long stretches and around the big gradual turns of Belmont Parks mile and a half course than he haa been going on the old-fashioned mile tracks at Havre de Grace and Pimlico. PETEE-WRACKS ENGAGEMENTS. Belmont Park engagements which Petee-Wrack probably will fill are in the Metropolitan and Suburban. Last year it did not look as though he wanted to go farther than a mile and an eighth in first-class company when the going was fast, but William Booth says this is another year. If the big Wrack colt does not travel as far at speed as any of his rivals Booth will be sorely disappointed. John Lowe has developed a dangerous Metropolitan candidate for Harry F. Sinclair in Mowlee, a son of Luculite and Eping-lette, which won a renewal of the Prince Georges Spring Handicap at Bowie and licked Sortie, Recreation, Display, Sunfire and some others in a dash of one mile and a sixteenth at Havre de Grace getaway day. Samuel C. Hildreth may regret that he haa not named this horse for the Suburban as well as the Metropolitan. Mowlee looks as much a distance runner as any horse the writer has seen in Maryland since the beginning of April. Mrs. Charles Amorys four-year-old Balko, a winner at Belmont Park last spring, hardly looked a first-flight handicap horse at Havre de Grace, but he is good Metropolitan and Suburban material just the same. The son of Omar Khayyam and Rahu will not be required to shoulder excessive weight on the Metropolitan circuit this spring if handicapper Vosburghs treatment of him in the Metropolitan Handicap is to be taken at its face value. His Metropolitan burden is only 110 pounds.
