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BELMONTS DUAL ATTRACTIONS Fashion Stakes and Swift Stakes Headline First Saturday Card. Swift Stakes Attracts Field of High-Class Sprinters — Ten Two-Year-Old Fillies Entered in Co-Feature. NEW YORK, N. Y., May 12.— Juvenile fillies to race in the four and one-half furlongs of the Fashion Stakes, „and three-year-olds to race seven furlongs in the Swift Stakes, are the twin features for the first Saturday of the Belmont Park meeting. The Fashion t . Stakes, which is over the Widener course, is of ,000 added and, with ten named to go to the post, it will gross ,000. The Swift . Stakes, run over the main course, is of ,500 1 added and, should all thirteen that have been named go to the post, it will gross ,775. There were some more notable nominees i for the Swift Stakes than will appear under silks, one of" these being William Woodwards ■ Johnstown, which will be more profitably employed in the 0,000 Preakness at ; Pimlico, and another is his stablemate, , Gilded Knight, from the Wheatley Stable. However, a worthy field will appear in the s old stake, which will be having its thirty-ninth running. Entracte, winner of the Toboggan Handicap over Fighting Fox, Thursday, is one of the best in the overnight field. This crack [ son of Stimulus, which races for A. G. C. Sage, will have Mrs. F. Ambrose Clarks . Lovely Night for a running mate. Another , team that has been named is that of Selma-lad 1 and Tiberius. They will bear the silks . of the Paragon Stables. GREENTREES DEPEND ANCE. The Greentree Stable will depend on Roll I and Toss, and Joseph E. Widener has his 5 opening-day winner Knickerbocker to carry r his silks. Hants will be the Hal Price Head-ley representative, and Mrs. John Hertz r hope will be Book Plate, a rather shifty r son of Cohort— Flyleaf. Sea Captain will [ substitute for Gilded Knight, from the , Wheatley Stable, and the others to complete I the company are War Dog, Trailer, Johns 5 Heir and Count dOr. Most of the fillies in the Fashion Stakes J have had a bit of seasoning by racing, though 1 not one stands out with any degree of prominence over the others. In this field there is 3 another Joseph E. Widener opening-day winner in Perida. Scurry, from the Wheatley Stable, is one that has shown well, and some [ of the others are Ranchos Girl, Fairy Chant, Spanked, Us and Grand Lady. The setting for the two features is an excellent one, and the steeplechase of the day, , over the short course, has attracted nine of t the older division. A handicap of a mile J and one-sixteenth for horses of class "C" is divided and run in two divisions. As the 2 program is fashioned, there is only one dash i over the Widener course, the special for r juvenile fillies.
