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TEN IN METROPOLITAN ♦ Famous Old New York Fixture Promises Brilliant Contest. « Sation, King Saxon, Singing Wood Whopper and Others Renew Feud Today at Belmont Park. NEW YORK, N. Y. May 15.— Seldom in its long and glamorous history has the Metropolitan Handicap of the Westchester Association held out the promise it does for the renewal at Belmont Park tomorrow afternoon. This mile prize that dates back to 1891 has ,000 added, and with ten named overnight, it will gross ,150. The weights were announced in February and since then five of the ten that have accepted have incurred penalties. Of the ten named, A. G. Vandeibilt is represented by three in Identify, Gallant Mac and Good Harvest. George D. Wideners Sation, winner of the Jamaica Handicap, and C. H. Knebelkamps King Saxon, winner of the Excelsior, top the weights with each required to take up 128 pounds, a penalty of two pounds each over the original assignment. Hal Price Headleys Whopper, which incurred a penalty in California after the assignment of the weights, has to shoulder 123 pounds, and Singing Wood, including his Toboggan penalty and one for the Inaugural at Bowie, has 120 pounds as his burden. I Each one of these will attract much attention j at post time. King Saxon proved his readiness by winning the Excelsior, while the | misfortunes of Sation in the Toboggan were I sufficient to account for his defeat by Singing Wood. The son of Galetian, though his forte is speed, has been showing some trials that would indicate the mile as being within his powers. Singing Wood, winner of the Futurity of 1933 and the Withers of the following year, is a rare miler, and his Toboggan was all he needed to lead up to this engagement. Whopper also proved himself in that same Toboggan running and the big fellow is another j that is well suited racing a mile. With only these going to the post, the Metropolitan J would be a remarkable race. Others named j are the Howe Stables Cycle, winner of the Paumonok; Coldstream, that carried the , Shaffer silks to a dead heat with Red Rain j in the Saratoga Special of last year, will | make his first New York appearance of the j year and there is John F. Clark, Jr.s Clang, the sprinting sensation from the Middle West. This fellow was started in the Toboggan and showed a flash of his quality in that running. The Fashion, a four and one-half furlongs dash over the Widener course for juvenile ] fillies, and the International Steeplechase ■ Handicap are also features of a remarkable week-end card. In each of these races the j response has been excellent, the filly prize j attracting thirteen of the eligibles while seven have accepted the weights in the cross cou.vy c.vnt. Of the fillies, one that impressed greatly in her recent performance was A. G. Van-derbilts Swiftply, a daughter of Swift and , , Sure — Panoply. Drawbridge, that races for | j the Wheatley Stable, is another that has leapt eased and others of the promised com- j j pany have shown in private that they are ; ; possessed of real class. In the International Steeplechase, both F. Ambrose Clark and Thomas Hitchcock have l | a team entered. The Clark pair are Hurry | Harry and Birmingham, while the Hitchcock j silks are to be carried by Amagansett, win- j j ner of the same prize in 1934 and 1935, and I I El Dorador. j Hideaway will represent the silks of Gwladya Whitney, Rock Lad will race for ; Catherine Christie, and the Sanford Stud ! ; Farm silks will be carried by Snap Back. This is a company well calculated to make the renewal an excellent one. ! Secretary Campbell has prepared a card j | of seven races and the setting for the three specials is a varied and interesting one.
