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FINAL METROPOLITAN WORKS King Saxon, Sation, Singing Wood and Whopper Get Last Training Gallops for Big Race. NEW YORK, N. Y., May 14.— Moving up to his engagement in the Metropolitan Handicap, one of the big week-end features of the Westchester Association at Belmont Park, tomorrow, C. H. "Pat" Knebelkamps King Saxon stepped along for a mile in 1:43 this morning. The son of Saxon was winner of the same prize last year and Knebelkamp is hopeful that, as he repeated in the Excelsior at Jamaica, he will repeat in this race. There is no denying that King Saxon has improved greatly over his first effort of the season when he was beaten in the Paumonok and his training has indicated that he has not yet reached his peak condition. Sation, the George D. Widener sprinter, is also heading for the Metropolitan, with his final breezing mile in 1:46. The handsome big son of Galetian proved his fitness when he was winner of the Jamaica Handicap at the previous meeting, and in the Toboggan Handicap, his only other start, he ran an impressive race after being all but knocked down at the start, when he was second to Singing Wood. Sation has had a long careful preparation and the determination to start him in the Metropolitan indicates the belief he can carry his great speed for the eight furlongs. Singing Wood, still another of the notable eligibles for the prize, in his final, out-footed both Sation and King Saxon when his task was a mile in 1:38. The son of Royal Minstrel had plenty left at the end of that fast move and, coming on the heels of his Toboggan victory, he has an undoubted chance. Hal Price Headleys Whopper is another considered a sure starter Saturday. This fellow ran an excellent race in the Toboggan, and it unquestionably did a great good in bringing him up to the Metropolitan. Like Sation, the son of Pharamond II. and Romance had some misfortune in the Toboggan, and all that Duval Headley asked of him yesterday morning was a breezing mile in 1:46%. The big fellow has all his speed and seems ready to run all the way.
