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COACHING CLUB OAKS TODAY Seven of Best Fillies of Year Compete for Old Fixture at Belmont Park. NEW YORK, N. Y., June 2. Seven of the best fillies of the year are engaged in the Coaching Club American Oaks, the .richest of the Belmont Park filly stakes for the big feature this afternoon. This is a gallop of a mile and three furlongs, confined to three-year-olds, of the gentler sex, and last year it went to E. R. Bradleys Black Helen. For todays renewal James Fitzsimmona has two named in Blue Sheen, winner of the Acorn Stakes for Whitney Stone, and the Wheatley Stables Reminding. The Acorn is a mile affair, also for the fillies, that leads up to the Coaching Club American Oaks, just as the Withers leads up to the Belmont. By reason of that victory the daughter of Toro has to shoulder her weight of 121 pounds, and the other in the company to take up scale weight is Split Second, which races for the King Ranch. Split Second, a daughter of Sortie and One Hour, earned her penalties when she was winner of the Selima Stakes at Laurel last October. These two will undoubtedly attract the most attention in the small field. In the Acorn, Split Second finished third, being beaten by G. D. Wideners High Fleet as well as Blue Sheen, but in that running she was giving away nine pounds to each of them. This afternoon she will give away ten pounds to High Fleet, while she is in under equal weights with Blue Sheen. Taking a line through that Acorn running, it would seem that Split Second is best. High Fleet set the pace in the Acorn and only lost to I Blue Sheen in the final strides, while Split Second was a close third. She had gained some ground and gave the impression she is better equipped for a mile and three furlongs than the other two. Reminding, a stablemate of Blue Sheen, has hardly shown as much as the daughter of Toro, but she has been working well for the engagement and may be a worthy running mate. As for High Fleet she will have to show more than she has thus far to be seriously considered. She is a filly of great speed, but it is doubtful if she can carry that speed a mile and three furlongs. Marshall Fields Sea Cradle is another in the field that was started in the Acorn. In that race she was decidedly disappointing, but the race was so far below what she has shown George Odom in private that she may show some improvement. Willis Sharpe Kilmer is represented by Beau Flower, a daughter of Sun Beau and Flower Girl that has worked well, and it is possible that she will be troublesome, and the other of the small field is Elmer Dale Shaffers Floradora, another that has been coming up to the running nicely. There is every chance the renewal will be an excellent one, and it appears that Split Second will be the choice of the field.
