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ACORN MAY GROSS 4,950 Belmont Park Filly Race Preliminary to Coaching Club American Oaks. James Fitzsimmons Names Three for Different Owners — Ciencia Not Eligible for Rich Stake. NEW YORK, N. Y., May 17.— Three-year-old fillies come into their first important prize of the year with the running of the Acorn Stakes at Belmont Park tomorrow afternoon. This is a mile test and one of the newest of futures of the New York season, entry being made as yearlings. Thus, with the various payments before post time and with eleven named to go to the post, the prize will gross 4,950 and of this the association only adds ,500. The Acorn will be having its ninth running, but since its inauguration in 1931 it has been looked upon as an important preliminary for the more important Coaching Club American Oaks, a gallop of a mile and three-eighths. In 1932 C. V. Whitneys Top Flight was winner of both prizes and the only other to complete the double was Robert Kleebergs Dawn Play in 1937. Unfortunately for Mr. Kleeberg, his good filly Ciencia, winner of the Santa Anita Derby, is not an eligible and there was no supplemental closing in which she could have been named. NAMED THREE STARTERS. Of the eleven carded for this renewal, James Fitzsimmons has named three in Wise Lady, which will bear the silks of William Woodward; Despondent, which represents Ogden Phipps, and Hostility from Mrs. H. C. Phipps Wheatley Stable. Each of these has come up to the running nicely and it is prob-j able the coupling will be favorite. | Red Eye, from the Falaise Stable, is sure I to have a following and she is another that has moved up to the race nicely. Hal Price Headley has Airacuda to bear his silks and Elwood Sachsenmaier is represented by Charlotte Girl. In lieu of Ciencia, Max Hirsch will send out Otra to bear the Kleeberg silks, but she is not of the same quality as her talented stablemate. Mrs. W. Plunket Stewart has Early Morn to carry her silks and Mrs. Walter M. Jeffords is represented by Solar Flight. Kindergarten will race for Mrs. J. Hertz and the other of the promised company is Grandi-flora, from the Brookmeade Stable. It was a Brookmeade filly, Handcuff, which was winner of the Acorn last year.
