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; 1 BELMONT PARK OPENING New York Racing Scene Shifts to Big Nassau County Course. Eight Named for Toboggan Handicap, Feature of Attractive Inaugural Program of Diversified Racing. NEW YORK N. Y., May 10.— New York racing swings over to Belmont Park tomorrow afternoon where the Westchester Racing Association will entertain for a twenty-four-day meeting. The move to the big Nassau County course, the Newmarket of America, is always an important one and in the spring it means changing from a cosy little mile course to one of a mile and a half circumference with great, long sweeping stretches, from a small paddock to one of the largest and most magnificent, and it means the beginning of the steeplechase season and the racing through the straight of the Widener course. For an opening feature, as has been the case in several recent years, the big feature is the old Toboggan Handicap, a six furlongs dash through the Widener course, to which ,000 is added. Eight have accepted the weights and Wm. Woodwards Fighting Fox is at the top under 126 pounds, just four pounds under scale. This colt proved his sprinting worth in the Jamaica Handicap and in his most recent effort he was barely beaten by Thanksgiving in the Excelsior Handicap. HE DID CARRIES 122 POUNDS. He Did, the son of Victorian and Dinah Did, that races for Arnold Hanger under 122 pounds, and ten below scale, is second in the handicap, so it is realized how much better Fighting Fox is considered. Maxwell Howards The Chief is eleven pounds under scale at 119 pounds and Sande has also named Sceneshifter to carry 120 pounds to bear the four-year-old company. Both of these have sbeen training exceedingly well at Belmont Park and are sure to go well. Henry McDaniel has put up A. G. C. Sages Entracte and he is the lone three-year-old of the company. He is in well under 102 pounds, seventeen pounds under scale, and on recent trials appears to be ready for a good race. Others in the field are Hal Price Head-leys old horse Preeminent, winner of the Toboggan of 1937. He has been dropped down to 114 pounds, just eighteen under scale and a race to his trials would make him a serious contender. Mrs. Anthony Pelleteri will be represented by Old Rosebush, a sprinter of some quality, seasoned by a winter campaign at the Fair Grounds in New Orleans and the other, to complete the field, is Gustave Rings Lady Maryland under the feather of 105 pounds. STOUT ON FIGHTING FOX. It would appear on paper that the higher weights will divide the Toboggan money and probably Fighting Fox will go to the post the favorite. He will be ridden by Jimmy Stout, with Arcaro having the mount on Preeminent, Nick Wall will ride Entracte and Basil James will ride one or the other of tne Maxwell Howard starters. The first steeplechase of the season has been fashioned for the maidens and seven were named through the entry box. Of these, the Greentree Stable is represented by two and Mrs. Gwladys Whitney by another pair. It is a gallop over the "about two mile" course and reports of the schooling suggest it will be an interesting race, even though for non-winners. Be ides the Toboggan, there are two other races through the straight of the Widener course. These are a five furlong dash for plater juveniles and a four and a half furlong affair for maiden juvenile fillies ihat has brought out a likely lot. There will be two races over the seven furlongs distance and the only race over a greater distance, except the steeplechase, is a mile and a sixteenth affair for platers at the end of the card. As in other years the magnificent racing park has been brightened up greatly for the new season and plans have been made for the comfortable handling of a big crowd. Special race trains will leave from the Pennsylvania station at frequent intervals, beginning at 12:20 p. m. and from the Flat-, bush Avenue station in Brooklyn, the first train wi leave at 12:25 p. m.
