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PEABODY MEMORIAL 1TTMCTS SPLENDID FIELD NINE NAMED TO OPPOSE MIOLAND IN SUBURBAN HANDICAP STARS CLASH IN 30000 ADDED RACE RACEHash Hash Your Chance Haltal and Dit Regarded as Howard Stars Main Rivals in Belmont Stake StakeNEW NEW YORK N Y May 29 The Sub ¬ urban one of the most famous American handicap fixtures has drawn a brilliant field of ten for its fiftyfifth running as the out ¬ standing attraction on tomorrow afternoons Memorial Day program at Belmont Park Charles S Howards Mioland an invader from California looms a warm favorite at no r ore than even money successfully to handle his topweight of 127 pounds in this historic mile and a quarter so duplicating the achievement of J B Haggins Califor ¬ niaowned Salvator back in 1890 Silent Toni Smiths charge will be opposed by the pick of the Easts handicap luminaries with the single exception of Eight Thirty The Green tree Stables accomplished Hash Mrs George D Wideners Your Chance Mrs Marie Evans Shot Put and the Woodvale Farms Haltal in particular are expected to fur ¬ nish stern opposition for the hardhitting trouper from the other coast coastHaltal Haltal has seventeen pounds the best of the weights over Mioland in the holidays 30000 added headliner and wjth a nineteenpound pull recently encompassed the Howard horses defeat in a camera finish ending the Dixie at Pimlico Handicapper Campbell rates Hash as the choices stoutest rival under 119 pounds while Your Chance rec ¬ ommended by a sensational work at the dis ¬ tance gets in under 114 114Shot Shot Put route champion of the 1940 turf season and Haltal each pack 110 W Ar ¬ nold Hangers speedy Dit carries 108 and Glen Riddles pretentiously named The Fin ¬ est the same impost While Col Maxwell Howards The Chief is under 106 Barring Continued on fourth page YOUR CHANCE With the absence of Eight Thirty from the Suburban field it will be up to Your Chance to try and uphold the prestige of the Erdenheim Erdenheimestablishment establishment NINE OPPOSE MIOLAND IN 30000 SUBURBAN SUBURBANHash Hash Your Chance Haltal and Dit Regarded as Howard Stars IVlain Rivals in Belmont Stake Continued from firstpage firstpagetons tons Olympus 102 and Brookmeades Romanov just 95 It is a top class field and one worthy the old Suburban which has proved the most popular of all New Yorks stake features with the public publicThe The racing strip was fast drying under a warm sun and hig wind as entries were taken for the Decoration Day program However off footing would only further entrench Mioland in the post of favoritism Incidentally if all the ten promised over ¬ night accept the issue this running of the stake inaugurated in 1884 at Sheepshead Bay will yield a net prize of 25450 25450Alfred Alfred Vanderbilt and his associates in the management of the vast modern Nassau County park are preparing to handle another record throng On Suburban Day last year a crowd of 41859 the largest to see a horse race in the state was present at Belmont Park and wagered 1436000 1436000The The main objective of Mioland this spring is the Suburban Handicap The San Fanciscan has won the 100000 Santa Anita Handicap but never a Suburban which is decided at the height of the major season in the East and generally attracts the best handicap field of the year Tis an ill wind thtt blows nobody good and after numerous bad breaks the Howard luck seems to be asserting itself again in the Suburban for Eight Thirty hero of the 1940 Suburban and winner of the Toboggan and Metropolitan in his only two starts this year is something the worse for wear and is unable to oppose Mioland today todayMioland Mioland has appeared at Belmont since the Dixie finishing second to Whirlaway in the Henry of Navarre Purse an overnight event in which he had top weight and beat Your Chance and Hash Training since then has been satisfactory and he finished off yesterday with a blowout of three furlongs in 36 Buddy Haas as usual has the mount mountHash Hash has been brought along slowly and carefully by trainer John Gaver for the Suburban In the Metropolitan as in the Henry of Navarre he was a fastfinishing third and after the Met he went on out a mile and a furjong in about 150 150SENSATIONAL SENSATIONAL WORKOUT WORKOUTYour Your Chance who races for Mrs George D Widener and trainer A J Joyner will strive to succeed where his stablemate Eight Thirty failed to get to the post Hes in light enough under 114 and will have Don Meade kicking Your Chance had early speed in the Dixie and the Henry of Navarre but quit in both In his final he sizzled a mile and onequarter in 203 well in hand Wednesday morning when the track was a bit off offHaltal Haltal appears best of the light weights Steve Judges charge getting in with just 110 He deserved top honors in the Dixie where he beat Mioland inches on the post though the latter was lucky enough to get a spread at the top of the lane Theres a twopound weight shift against him in the Suburban SuburbanThe The Chicagoowned Shot Put is coming off a mile and a half race in which he was third under a high weight In the Suburban this winner of the initial running of the 50000 New York Handicap gets in under 110 and like Mioland will appreciate a lot of pace early earlyDit Dit cut out a sizzling early pace in the Dixie and came off that effort to win the Grey LagHandicap at Jamaica Hes right at the top of his form now and is in very light with just 108 pounds Basil James is expected to have the mount mountThe The Suburban Handicap has a long and illustrious history Such celebrities as Race land Salvator Henry of Navarre Ben Brush Imp Hermis Beldame Fitz Herbert Whisk Broom II Friar Rock Grey Lag Crusader Equipoise and Eighty Thirty have won vari ¬ ous of its renewals renewalsThis This afternoons running promises to de ¬ velop a memorable contest as well as being the richest of all the Suburbans
