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RENEW TIEHONORED BELMONT STAKES SATURDAY WHIRLAWAY READY FOR TRIPLE CROWN RACE RACEDerbyPreakness DerbyPreakness Winner May Have Four Opponents in Mile and Half Event Topheavy Favorite FavoriteNEW NEW YORK N Y May 31 The Bel iriont Stakes New Yorks time honored spe ¬ cial for threeyearolds and the last of the races comprising Americas triple crown climaxes the final full week of the West Chester Racing Associations most success ¬ ful spring meeting This famous mile and a half event has its seventythird running next Saturday and is outstanding among the five stake features to b3 decided during the six day span that gets under way Monday after ¬ noon In it Whirlaway the sensational stretch runner who captured the Kentucky Derby and Preakness will be a topheavy favorite and if he is successful the little chestnut colt from Calumet will join Sir Barton Gallant Fox Omaha and War Ad miral as a winner of the triple crown crownThe The ranks of Whirlaways opponents are rapidly thinning and just now it appears that no more than four if that many will parade to the post with him in the Belmont Foremost of these is J Fred Byers Robert Morris recent winner of the Peter Pan Handicap at the Hempstead turnpike grounds While Max Hirsch may start both Mrs Parker Comings Attention and the King Ranchs unbeaten Itabo he says At ¬ tention is doubtful The Wheatley Stables Bold Irishman rounds out a quintet of possi ¬ bilities Trainer Jim Fitzsimmons pointing out that his charge went a mile and a quar ¬ ter in 208 at Aqueduct one afternoon late last week and that there is a chance the 1940 Pimlico Futurity winner will accept the issue though he thinks its an ambitious placing for a first start since coming out of the Survivor with a cough Theres magic in Whirlaways name these days and his presence assures a big get ¬ away day crowd The Saturday sport con ¬ tains another stake of some significance in the National Stallion for twoyearolds and most important test of the meeting for the juveniles juvenilesSWIFT SWIFT STAKES ON WEDNESDAY WEDNESDAYThe The other three of the cluster of five stake features during the week are the Meadowbrook Steeplechase Handicap on Tuesday the Swift a sprint for threeyear olds on Wednesdays midweek offerings and the Top Flight Handicap of a mile and a sixteenth for fillies and mares on Friday The Top Flight is the first of the local turf seasons major offerings for fillies and mares maresFavored Favored by excellent weather breaks the meeting at the Nassau County course is set ¬ ting an assortment of handle and attendance records with the 53904 present Memorial Day marking an alltime high for a new track and the 1881160 passing through the tote that afternoon also standing as a state record recordThrough Through the seventeenth day of the twentyfour comprising the meeting or through Decoration Day the daily average tote turnover was 945402 This is a world record according to all available statistics statisticsThe The National Stallion Stakes companion piece of the Belmont on the card for clos ¬ ing day will draw a sizable field of high grade twoyearolds with Calumet Farms Some Chance looming as the choice from this considerable distance right off his cork ¬ ing second to his stablemate Sun Again in a track record run for the Juvenile Stakes Sun Again is not in the National Stallion and the same applies to Amphitheatre Some Chance before the Juvenile had beaten a crack field after being practically left at the post at Pimlico PimlicoOther Other keen prospects are Glen Riddles Soldier Song who looked good in his stretch running graduation effort yesterday and Howe Stables Cassis who won his only start in easy fashion earlier in the week weekThe The Belmont incidentally will decide the leadeiship among moneywinning owners at the meeting In the jockey ranks Conn Mc Creary and Alfred Robertson were tied vith thirteen winners each going into Saturdays card McCreary is the current leader in the national standings since the first of the year Close behind McCreary and Robertson at the meeting at Belmont are Eddie Arcaro and Basil James with ten winners each
