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Hera and There on the Turf Rosemont Ready for Suburban Brooklyn Possible Starter Munroe Fills Race Loses Hat HatSteeplecbasing Steeplecbasing Loses Cham ¬ pion A very keen contest shapes up for the his ¬ toric Suburban Handicap which will feature Belmont Parks holiday program Monday even though the starting field may not num ¬ ber more than a half dozen By the manner in which he has been training these past few weeks Rosemont has come to be re ¬ garded as a definite starter despite the fact that John B Campbell is asking the five yearold son of The Porter and Garden Rose from William Duponts stable to shoulder top weight of 128 pounds Rosemont hap ¬ pened to win the 100000 Santa Anita Hand ¬ icap during the winter and he deported him ¬ self in a manner of a firstclass handicap horse last season when he won the Narra gansett Special and was very prominent in other prominent attractions Trainer Dick Handlen placed his stamp of approval on Rosemonts condition after the veteran had worked the Suburban distance of a mile and onequarter Tuesday in 206 which is only a few seconds slower than the race will be run runWhile While he is making ready for the Belmont Stakes which is to be renewed next Satur ¬ day over the mile and onehalf course Brooklyn may be a starter in the Suburban which probably would have the effect of fitting him perfectly for his opposition to War Admiral and Pompoon in the three yearold test Brooklyn gets into the Sub ¬ urban under 106 pounds or only two pounds under the scale whereas Rosemont is rated at only a single pound over the scale The son of Blue Larkspur and Knockany Bridge also worked a mile and onequarter Tues ¬ day going handily In the time of 209 Others which majr be considered definite opponents of Rosemont judging by the work tab are the Dixie Handicaps winner Aneroid with 110 pounds the Metropolitan victor and run ¬ nerup Snark 115 and Memory Book 116 and Count Arthur which took the Ben Brush Handicap in his last outing His assign ¬ ment is 113 pounds poundsThe The busiest place on any race course in midmorning is the racing secretarys office especially if the official Is having difficulty in filling the next days program Some ¬ times the secretary is called upon to use his powers of persuasion to bring in the one entry that will permit him to close the entries and have them drawn Each secre ¬ tary has his own technique in this respect and different from the others is H D Jim ¬ my Munroe the dynamic personage who presides over this department at Suffolk Downs Needing one more horse for the sixth event to let it go with five horses Munroe called upon Ralph Mcllvain to enter Albu ¬ querque and after this was done he wagered the trainer a hat that the Monks Way speedster would beat any one of the others in the field the horseman selected Mcllvain picked Gilbert Elston and that horse won the race as Albuquerque finished third He won the hat catching Munroe wrong for one of the few times this has been done be ¬ cause the Suffolk secretary really knows his horses Bushranger only horse ever to win Ameri ¬ cas Grand National Steeplechase under such an impost as 172 pounds in the thirtysix runnings of that threemile event is no more having suffered fatal injuries while schooling the other morning The seven yearold gelding by Stefan the Great from War Path by Man o War was one of the best jumpers developed in this country In recent years and was the unquestionable champion of last season when he captured the Grand National under his unprecedented impost after having triumphed in the Brook Corinthian and Broad Hollow Steeplechases Only the famous Good and Plenty ever came near to duplicating Bushmasters Grand Na ¬ tional triumph carrying 170 pounds to vic ¬ tory in the 1906 running The J E Widerier jumper was being prepared for Saturdays renewal of the Corinthian Steeplechase in which he had been assigned the even great ¬ er load of 174 pounds Devotees of the field sport naturally deplored Bushmasters death because he was a well beloved champion John J Coakley secretary of the West 1 Chester Racing Association and director of its business office reports unusual interest in the coming renewal of the Belmont Stakes and with good weather believes the third meeting of the year between War Admiral and Pompoon will bring out the largest crowd Belmont Park has accommodated in recent years Practically all boxes which contain the only reserved seats available at Belmont Park have been engaged Coakley reports and he believes these will be gone by the end of the week At least one special train is to be operated directly to Belmont Park from Philadelphia he stated Pom ¬ poon came out of the Preakness with an in ¬ creased number of admirers because of the gallant manner in which he battled with War Admiral all through the stretch and many persons are confident he will take the Man o War colt in the Belmont Conse ¬ quently interest in the closing day feature is increasing
