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BREVITY CHOICE FOR BELMONT STAKES Granville Rated Most Dangerous Rival for Honors in Famous Race Ten Named to Vie for Prize of 9,800 Going to Winner National Stallion Stakes and Meadow Brook Steeplechase Features of Closing Day T - .-....-..--.--.-- NEW YORK, N. Y., June 5. The field for the Belmont Stakes follows: I Horse. Wt. Jockey. Trainer. Owner. j Brevity 126 W. D. Wright. . P. Coyne J. E. Widener j Corundum 126 G. Woolf Jt. A. Smith Brookmeade Stable j j fGranville 126 J. Stout J. Fitzsimmons Belair Stud Stable j j jlsolater 126 E. Litzenbergr.J. Fitzsimmons ....Belair Stud Stable j J fTeufel 126 I. Hanford J. Fitzsimmons Wheatley Stable ! I Jean Bart 126 H. Richards P. M. Burch W. M. Jeffords j Hollyrood 126 L. Balaski .D. A. Headley H. P. Headley j ! Memory Book 126 S. Coucci W. Brennan Greentree Stable I Mr. Bones 126 J. Gilbert J. W. Healy J. II. Whitney j J Red Rain 126 R. Workman. . .T. J. Healey C. V. Whitney j iBelair Stud Stable and Wheatley Stable entry. I Post positions for Belmont Stakes will be drawn thirty minutes before horses go to the barrier. i.. A NEW YORK, N. Y., June 5. Owners of all the ten candidates for the Belmont Stakes save one will be at Belmont Park tomorrow afternoon, each anxiously hopeful of the honor of leading in the winner, yet, if public expectations are right, the victorious colt in the sixty-eighth running of Americas important three-year-old race will parade to the unsaddling enclosure unaccompanied. The Belmont is Brevity against Granville, and the pair of them against the field, each in quest of the fame, glory and 9,800 that goes with victory in the gruelling mile and one-half contest. Supporting the classic will be revivals of the National Stallion Stakes and Meadow Brook Steeplechase Handicap and four other events, comprising a fitting program to bring to a close the highly successful spring meeting of twenty-four days at the beautiful Nassau course. Only Joseph B. Widener, who singularly is president of the Westchester Racing Association, will be the absentee among owners of Belmont Stakes candidates. The Philadelphia sportsman departed today for Europe to see his silks carried in the French Derby and, if possible, to take with him the jinx that prevented his Brevity from winning the Kentucky Derby and Withers Stakes, but Wideners absence is having no bearing on what the public thinks of todays chances of the Chance Shot or Sickle colt. A great crowd is expected at the huge Nassau course, as fine weather is predicted, even though the Belmont lost considerable of its appeal through the defections of Bold Venture, triumphant in the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes by narrow margins over Brevity and Granville, and White Cockade, winner of the Withers. In both the Continued on thirty-eighth page. : 1 , i ! BREVITY CHOICE FOR BELMONT STAKES Continued from first page. Derby and Withers, the Widener colt was shuffled back at the start, but came through with magnificent performances to fill the runner-up position. Except for the Derby, Withers and Hopeful Stakes last summer in each of which he was asked to overcome insurmountable odds in the form of interference, Brevity is unbeaten and he goes into the Belmont Stakes with his large following believing the long race with its start directly below the position of the stewards will give the son of Sickle and Ormonda every opportunity to demonstrate that he is the horse his Florida reputation has made him. William Woodwards Granville,: which will have Isolater as a running mate possesses quite a reputation as a second horse himself, having lost the Suburban, Preakness and Wood Memorial Stakes by very narrow margins. No remaining member of the Belmont field has quite the three-year-old reputation, therefore the event looms as a two horse battle but surprises occur frequently in racing and the important events are just as susceptible as the others. Granville gained many admirers by his remarkable performance in trie Suburban Handicap, in which he was "nosed out in the very last stride by the older Firethorn, to which he conceded considerable weight on the scale as he did to his other opponents. The Belmont Stakes will find him shouldering 126 pounds as it will the other starters and Jimmy Stout again will ride the son of Gallant Fox and Gravita, trainer James Fitzsimmons continuing confident that he can ride the colt as well as anyone. As the Wheatley Stables Teufel, stretch running son of Diavolo and winner of the Wood, is to be coupled with the Belair pair, that entry is certain to command extenSivd support. The puzzling quantity of the Belmont field is Cornelius Whitneys Red Rain, which failed to race to expectations in the Withers because as one alibi has it, too much dirt was thrown in his face. His connections toyed with the notion of equipping him with special blinkers but decided against it. However, they may feel encouraged by the thorough drenching the track received Wednesday night causing the soil to be packed down. Since the Withers, the son of Pennant and Dustemali has trained exceptionally well, being twice sent over the mile and a half course by trainer Thos. J. Healy, being timed in 2:35 and 2;344,f,. It is very doubtful that the race will be run faster than 2:30. Last season Red Rain ran in the manner of a natural stayer, coming from far back in the stretch. He did this in his first start as s. three-year-old, just failing to overtake Delphinium, but in the Withers, his only other start, he was well back all the way. Hal Price Headleys Hollyrood and Walter M. Jeffords Jean Bart are considered the most formidable of the other candidates, the former having run second to Rushaway in the Latonia Derby in his last start and the latter placing third in the Preakness. The first named has shown improvement in his last two starts but both colts have demon- strated good ability at the distance in their workouts, Jean Bart turning in the fastest move when he ran the twelve furlongs the other morning in 2:33. Isolater and the Brookmeade Stables Corundum raced to a dead heat at a mile arid a furlong Tuesday, but their efforts were not those of topnotch Belmont candidates. Greentree Stables Memory Book, regarded as a doubtful starter after his failure to show anything in Tuesdays event, is among the overnight entries and he probably will start as trainer William Brennan is inclined to disregard that race. John Hay Whitneys Mr. Bones, the pacemaker in the Withers for six furlongs, completes the field and his connections are hopeful that he can go the distance, promise of which he displayed in a recent trial over the route. Either he or Granville is likely to make the pace if Brevity does not spring a surprise and try it himself. Only a quartet of candidates were "blown out" for the race, Memory Book showing the most speed as he went three furlongs in :35, driving. Corundum went the distance in :35 and Jean Bart worked five furlongs in 1:00. Brevity was hard held in going five-eighths in 1:03. A dozen, including two which are unbeaten, have been named to clash over five furlongs in the National Stallion Stakes, richest of all early season events for two-year-olds, and with all starting its gross value will be 3,970 of which the winners net share will be 4,780. Owners of the stallions siring the first, second and third youngsters will divide ,380 among them on a ratio of three, two and one. Glen Riddle Farms War Admiral and J. H. Louchheims Pompoon are the undefeated colts, each having accounted for two races and making-good impressions by the manner in which they scampered down the Widener chute. Opposing them will be C. V. Whitneys Black Look, J. E. Wideners Fencing; J. H. Whitneys Danger Point, and Brookmeade Stables Devils Banner, all of which have won at Belmont, Black Look especially in a pleasing manner. The non-winners in the field include several choice prospects, among them Ptolemy, a stablemate of Black Look; Optic, running-mate of Fencing; George D. Wideners Rebellion and Alvin Untermyers Gurkha whose companion Scintillator, won the Juvenile Stakes last Saturday. Headed by J. E. Wideners Bushranger, under 162 pounds, the field for the Meadow Brook numbers a half dozen with the others getting at least sixteen pounds from the Stefan the Great gelding which easily took the Corinthian Steeplechase Handicap last Saturday. All of the others have run at the meeting, National Anthem and Birmingham earning victories with St. Francis, Snap Back and Jungle King placing in the money. Post time for the first race is 2:30 oclock, but starting positions for the Belmont and I National Stallion will not be drawn until thirty minutes before .post
