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ROBERT MORRIS WILL PERFORM IN BELMONT BELMONTByers Byers Colt Has Turned In Only One Poor Effort This Season Purchased for 3200 at Sales SalesNEW NEW YORK N Y May 30 It may be that champion Whirlaway will have a stout rival in the Belmont Stakes renewal his next big objective in the person of Robert Morris the hope of the J F Byers stable stableTo To date Robert Morris has won 20225 He has run but one bad Ticc this year in the Kentucky Derby and his connections explain this by the statement that the paste ¬ board track stung his tender feet arid pre ¬ cluded his showing his best form After winning his first start at Jamaica he came back to whip older horses in the Excelsior Handicap He was then shipped to Louis ¬ ville and finished ninth in the Kentucky Derby Returned to New York he finished second to King Cole in the Withers but in the Peter Pan he easily turned the tables on his conqueror to win going away in 149 He put in a useful move as part of his prep for that event between races at the Nassau County course yesterday Trainer Tom Mc Creery sent him a half in 47 six furlongs in 113 and he pulled up seven furlongs in 128 moving along well witfiin himself all the way and unaccompanied in the trial The track was fast fastBRED BRED BY J CAL MILAM MILAMRobert Robert Morris a bay colt by Jacopo Arch Queen by Archaic is stoutly bred and he should find the distance of the Belmont well within his powers He was bred by J Cal Milam and was purchased as a yearling early in 1939 by Bill Caskey and sold under the banner of the Bramble Farm at Saratoga in August of that year to J Fred Byers for 3200 Caskey originally paid Milam 3000 for the colt so he actually booked a loss on the transaction transactionArch Arch Queen dam of Robert Morris like the dam of Mioland was bred in New York state by the late John Sanford She did not win and to date has had seven foals of rac ¬ ing age and four Our Manager Winna taska Arch Fiend and Robert Morris are winners Her last foal the current two yearold Hard Cracker by Hard Tack was purchased privately by Warner L Jones and sold last August at Saratoga to the Millsdale Stable for 2400 2400The The imported Queen Mab granddam of Robert Morris was bred by the Buckenham Hall Stud in England and was purchased as a yearling on June 30 1920 by Hollie Hughes acting for John Sanford for 3100 guineas about 15500 She never raced and was retired to the Sanford Stud where she proved to be a firstclass brood mare
