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RUN SUBURBAN TODAY Six Crack Stake Horses Entered in Famous Handicap. Sir Damion Likely Public Choice at Belmont — Association Adding 0,000 to Fixture. NEW YORK, N. Y., May 29.— Six outstanding members of the older division will go to the post tomorrow afternoon in the fifty-third running of the Suburban Handicap, and their respective qualities are such that the largest crowd of the meeting may take advanage of the holiday to assemble at Belmont Park. With fair weather, the number of spectators assembling at the big Nassau course to witness the historical test of a mile and one-quarter may surpass the 30,000 mark. The Westchester Racing Association is endowing the Suburban with a purse of 0,000, of which the winner will receive 7,750. Due to the conclusive manner in which he captured the Dixie Handicap in his last start, Sir Damion is likely to be installed the favorite, but Marshall Fields five-year-old probably will not be an outstanding choice, because a pronounced shift in the weights has been made against him. He was assigned 121 pounds by handicapper J. B. Campbell, and at this weight he is treated equally with Jerome H. Louchheims Pompoon and Town-send B. Martins Cravat. HANDCUFF ONLY FELLY. Mrs. Parker Comings Thanksgiving, at 120 pounds; A. G. Vanderbilts Heelfly, at 115, and Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloans Handcuff, at 110, are the other Suburban candidates. The last-named is the only filly in the lineup and, considering her sex allowance, is equally weighted with Heelfly Sir Damion won the Dixie, in which he took the lead at the start and remained in the van all the way over the mile and three-sixteenths distance with 113 pounds on his back, so he is being jumped eight pounds. Pompoon gets into the Suburban with four pounds less than he shouldered in the Dixie, while Thanksgiving and Cravat will have the same burdens. Heelflys impost was elevated one pound, and Handcuff did not run in the Pimlico race. Both Sir Damion and Pompoon seek the honor of being the second horse to win the Dixie and Suburban, the latter horse having triumphed at Pimlico a year ago, and then finished second to Snark in the 1938 running of the Belmont Park attraction. Equipoise is the only horse to have achieved a double in the two important spring handicaps, accounting for the Suburban in 1933 and the Dixie the following year. WINTER CAMPAIGNERS. All but Pompoon and Handcuff were campaigned during the winter, but only Cravat was successful in scoring an outstanding victory. He accounted for the San Juan Capistrano Handicap at Santa Anita. Pompoon had one race prior to his Dixie effort in which he tired in the final furlong, and Handcuff was unsuccessful in an overnight event a few days ago in her lone outing of the season. Like Cravat, Thanksgiving and Heelfly were pointed for the Santa Anita Handicap but all failed to prove contenders. This spring Continued on forty-third page. RUN SUBURBAN TODAY Continued from first page. however, Thanksgiving won the Philadelphia Handicap at Havre de Grace and the Excelsior Handicap at Jamaica before running fourth in the Dixie, in which Tatterdemalion was second and Jacola third. Heelfly easily won the Gittings Handicap at Pimlico. The winter campaign made by Sir Damion was at Hialeah Park, where he finished second to Bull Lea in The Widener. His training for that mile and one-quarter event was interrupted for a brief period and he may not have been sufficiently seasoned, as he faltered in the stretch run. CRACK RIDERS. All of the Suburban starters will be ridden by topnotch jockeys. Jack Westrope is due to arrive from the West Coast to have the mount on Cravat, which he piloted in the Dixie and San Juan. Don Meade, as usual, will be up on Sir Damion, and Pompoon again will be entrusted to Harry Richards. Eddie Arcaro, on Thanksgiving, and Leo Fallon, on Heelfly, are familiar with their mounts, while trainer Hugh Fontaine has selected Basil James to guide Handcuff. Only Pompoon, which went seven furlongs Sunday in 1:27, and Heelfly, were not given "blowouts" for the Suburban Sunday morning. Cravat was called upon to do three-quarters in 1:14% and the half in :49, and Thanksgiving breezed three furlongs in :36. Handcuff did a half mile in :47%, and Sir Damion went three-eighths in :37.
