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TOBOGGAN HANDICAP Big Feature of Todays Inaugural at Belmont Park Osmand High Strung Petee Wrack Among Stars Named Namedfor for Popular Fixture NEW YORK N Y May 14 The Toboggan Handicap main attraction of Belmont Parks opening program tomorrow has attracted one of the best fields in its history The pros ¬ pective starters follow Horse HorseCharon Jockey Charon E Kennedy High Strung L JIcAtce Kchlie Ahearn G Hose Jack nigh J Eaby EabyII Finite II Workman Klyins Heels W Kelsay KelsayA Iwink A Robertson Osmand JI Knight 1eteeAVrack S ODonnell ISalko J Kojsliak Maya A Schenk Hilaria U Hathaway Judge Schilling P Catrone Capture I Fator Crnttan E Steffeii Sarazen II IILace P AValls Lace NEW YORK N Y May 14 The West chester Racing Associations spring meeting will be inaugurated tomorrow at palatial Belmont Park one of the most beautiful race courses in this or any other country With a marvelous array of richly endowed stake races generous overnight handicap and purse events the foremost horses of the east with a goodly representation from Kentucky Illinois and elsewhere the sport at Belmont Park is certain to reach the high standards always maintained at this great racing ground groundApproximately Approximately fifteen hundred horses of various ages representing as to ownership the leading figures in American racing have assembled at Belmont Park Aqueduct and Jamaica for the Westchester meeting of twentythree days which will be character ¬ ized by a purse distribution of half a mil ¬ lion dollars or more The Belmont Stake at one mile and a half will be the biggest event of the meeting The sixtysecond running of the Belmont with ten horses competing should gross about 80000 and pay its winner a little more than 70000 Chance Shots share of the fiftyninth purse was 60910 Vitos of the sixtieth 63430 Blue Larkspurs of the sixtyfirst 59650 The sixtysecond Belmont will be run get ¬ away day June 7 7RICH RICH TURF PRIZES PRIZESThe The Withers a dash at one mile should pay 30000 May 31 the Coaching Club American Oaks a gallop of one mile and three furlongs for threeyearold fillies 22 000 June 4 the Metropolitan Handicap a dash of one mile for threeyearolds and over 12000 May 24 the Suburban a gallop of one mile and a quarter for threeyearolds and over 17000 May 30 Memorial Day the National Stallion a sprint of five furlongs for twoyearolds 29000 June 7 the Ju ¬ venile another sprint of five furlongs for twoyearolds 18500 May 27 27Tiie Tiie racing Monday May 19 will be marked by the running of the Sansovino Handicap a 2500 gallop of one mile for threeyearolds and over This race is named for the horse that won the Epsom Derby of 1924 under the silks of Lord Derby Belmont Parks guest of honor this spring springTomorrows Tomorrows inaugural program is featured by the Toboggan Handicap and the Inter ¬ national Steeplechase A wonderful field has been named for the Toboggan with Osmand top weight of 130 pounds He will have such redoubtable opponents as High Strung 124 Petee Wrack 123 Judge Schilling 121 Twink 120 and others which include the crack Flying Heels making his debut as a threeyearold It is a field well calculated to bring out the full racing strength in the Metropolitan area as well as numerous visitors and it will not at all be surprising providing the weather is propitious for out ¬ door sport to see a crowd of 25000 or more at Belmont Park for the opening days racing racingPete Pete Walls will leave Kentucky on Thurs ¬ day He has been engaged to ride Broad ¬ way Limited in the Derby DerbyJames James Rowe will take a draft of the IT P Whitney stable to Toronto for that meeting
