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RED RAIN AND BREVITY STAND OUT Formidable Rivals of Widener and Whitney Stars Fall by Wayside as Belmont Stakes Starters. Coldstream Lame and Memory Book Doubtful NEW YORK, N. Y., June 4. With training completed for the candidates for the Belmont Stakes, the big closing feature of the Westchester Association, there are no changes in the probable field except the possible elimination of Memory Book, the Greentree Stable eligible. His recent race was so disappointing that it is not likely he will be sent to the post. There is also doubt of "Bob" Smith sending Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloanes Corundum to the post, though his recent dead heat with Isolater suggested the ability to carry on for the long gruelling mile and a half of the big Saturday classic. It was in the Suburban Handicap that Coldstream was eliminated when he came out of that race badly lamea aiter Demg snipped irom tne mm-West for the express purpose of keeping his Belmont engagement. The other candidates of first importance have moved up to the race in a satisfactory manner and most important is the fact that C. V. Whitneys Red Rain gives promise of showing the form that made him one of the juvenile stars of last year. The son of Pennant and Dustemall has been doing all that has been asked of him magnificently, and there is a confidence that he will come into his own Saturday afternoon. Pete Coyne has promised that the Tinfor-tunate Brevity, which carries the silks of Joseph E. Widener, will be a better horse than he was in the Kentucky Derby or Withers, when he was second on both occasions, and it is possible he will go to the post the choice. The son of Chance Shot or Sickle and Ormonda had a real excuse in both of his defeats. In the Withers, as in the Kentucky Derby, he was badly bumped at the start and subjected to an unusual handicap. In each race he closed a big gap to finish second and the races tended to show that he will find the mile and a half a distance amply far enough to recover from an early interference that might again come his way. There is another reason for giving him a preference, the assurance that the field will be a small one. Many will remain faithful to William Woodwards Granville and when he was such a close second to the four-year-old Firethorn in the Suburban Handicap, it should have accomplished some good in leading up to the Belmont. The son of Gallant Fox was tiring at the end of the mile and a quarter, but on the scale he was giving away weight to every starter. James Fitzsimmons, his astute trainer, is confident that the son of Gallant Fox is up to the mile and a half and he will have a worthy running mate in the Wheatley Sta- Conthiued on third page. RED RAIN AND BREVITY STAND OUT Continued from first page. bles Teufel, which earned a close dfeision over him in the Wood Memorial. Teufel, a son of Diavolo, is an acknowledged stayer and it is entirely possible that he may be the stronger one of the Fitz-simmons pair, and in any event, in such a race, it is a big advantage to have two engaged for pacing, for it will also have something to do with the result. As the probable field shapes up at this time, Brevity, Granville and Red Rain are the ones to attract the most pre-race attention and barring accident, they will all be seen under silks. The others that are expected to be shown are Hal Price Head-leys Hollyrood, which has improved greatly in recent trials, and Walter M. Jeffords Jean Bart. Trainer Dick Thompson announced yesterday that Edward R. Bradley would have no starter in the Belmont. It had been proposed to start Bien Joli but the colt did not satisfy in his preparation and he will not be raced. Corundum remains a peer after his dead-heat with Isolater and he has proved himself a stayer. Just whether he measures up to those named is a question but he has been steadily improving and Smith has not made a definite announcement of his Saturdays plans for the son of Blue Larkspur. Of course, it is regretted greatly that Morton L. Schwartz great colt, Bold Venture, winner of the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness, is out by reason of his bowed tendon. It is likewise regretted that White Cockade, winner of the Withers, will not be raced, and that Warren Wrights Count Morse has gone amiss after being shipped on for the running and that Coldstream will be an absentee by reason of disability, but the Belmont field nevertheless gives promise of being an excellent one and there" is the promise of a great contest. Since its inauguration in 1867, the historic Belmont Stakes, Americas true derby, has outlined two racetracks, and now has for its setting the magnificent mile and one-half course at Belmont Park. Francis Morris Ruthless, one of the two fillies to win the stake which will have its sixty-eighth running tomorrow, launched the Belmont over the "figure eight" course at Jerome Park. Here, twenty-three Belmont winners were crowned after they had swung around the mile track which arched inward along the backstretch to circle the base of the "bluff" upon which stood the clubhouse. When Jerome Park passed out of existence before the pressure of the real estate drive through upper Manhattan, it was supplanted by Morris Park in the same section. At the latter course, the Belmont was won in 3890, its initial running there, by Burlington, and for fifteen years this track was the locale for renewals of the classic three-year-old test. Time marched on and the Westchester Racing Association, which had come into being, moved out to Long Island. Belmont Park was built upon the old Manice estate, settled by an exiled French family in 1750. The inaugural Belmont on the Nassau county course in 1905 went to Harry Payne Whitneys Tanya, which down through . the. years has shared the honor with Ruthless of being the only other filly to capture Belmont; fame and glory.
