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HISTORIC SUBURBAN TODAY Rosemont Santa Anita Handicap Winner Among Scheduled Starters Beimont Park Prize to Have Gross Value of 14725 if Nine Face Barrier Snark Has Admirers NEW YORK N Y May 29 Attracting nine horses headed by Rosemont under an impost of 128 pounds the historic Suburban Handicap will have its fiftyfirst running Monday at Beimont Park before a Memorial Day crowd which promises to be one of the largest of the season It will be the first ap ¬ pearance of William DuPonts brilliant per ¬ former since his triumph in the 100000 Santa Anita Handicap in February but the fiveyearold son of The Porter and Garden Rose has trained in steady fashion for the mile and onequarter contest contestWith With the Westchester Racing Association endowing the Suburban with 10000 the event will have a gross value of 11725 if all of the nine overnight candidates go post ward and the winners net share will be 10950 10950Because Because he has not raced for several months and will be called upon to give at least a dozen pounds to each of his oppo ¬ nents Rosemont may not be the favorite or if he is his shade over Snark and Memory Book will be slight The Wheatley Stable colt scored a surprising victory over the Greentree Stable star and Whopper in the Metropolitan Handicap and during the win ¬ ter at Hialeah Park he established a new worlds record for six and onehalf furlongs furlongsJames James Fitzsimmons has had the fleet son of Boojum and Helvetia training in ad ¬ mirable fashion for the Suburban since the Metropolitan but Memory Book likewise has come up to the new engagement in a satis ¬ factory manner In the meeting of the two colts in the Metropolitan the Greentree colorbearer was gradually getting to Snark at the end endPROMINENT PROMINENT CANDIDATES CANDIDATESOf Of the others in the Suburban field Mrs John Hertz Count Arthur recently won the Ben Brush Handicap at Beimont Park while John A Manfusos Aneroid was third in the Dixie Handicap after accounting for the Baltimore Spring Handicap at Pimlico and the Harford Handicap at Havre de Grace GraceBoth Both of the latter races were at six fur ¬ longs Esposa fiveyearold mare from the Middleburg Stable of Mrs William Ziegler Jr is the only member of her sex in the field and is called upon to carry 106 pounds A good trial last week shows the daughter of Espino to be ready for the Suburban which has been won only three times by a member of this division Imp was the first of her sex to take the Suburban winning in 1899 Her victory was duplicated in 1905 by Bel ¬ dame and in 1929 by Bateau Memory Book is the second high weight among the candidates with an assignment of 116 pounds Snark having been allotted 115 j pounds by handicapper John B Campbell Count Arthurs burden is 113 pounds with i Dark Hope a onetime winner of the Riggs J Handicap getting in the race under 112 j I pounds Aneroid will carry 110 Star Shadow 106 and Maeriel is the low weight with 105 pounds I ISupporting Supporting the Suburban are six other j races including the Memorial Day Handi ¬ cap engaging four sprinters to go six fur longsj and the Blue and Gray Handicap hav ing a dozen class C performers to race at a mile arid onesixteenth
