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w . STARS IN BELMONT WORKS NEW YORK, N. Y, May 19.— The Ran-cocas Stables four-year-old Mokatam, which came back to the races to finish second to the Greentree Stables Surf Board in the Kings County Handicap early in the Jamaica meeting, and which came back to take the Excelsior Handicap later in the same meeting, looms as a real threat to James Butlers Questionnaire, whici electrified racegoers by his manner in winning the Fair Play Handicap Monday. Questionnaire, which will endeavor to repeat the victory of his famous sire Sting, which won the 1925 renewal of the Metropolitan Handicap, covered the seven-eighths in the fast time of 1:23% and was worked out to the mile mark where he was caught in 1:37%. Mokatam was sent out Monday morning to work a mile over the main track. The Ran-cocas star covered the first half-mile in :47% and was caught in a minute flat at the five-eighths mark. He was under restraint thereafter, covering the three-quarters in 1:13% and was going easily at the end of the mile, which he negotiated in 1:40%. A ,
