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Derbyis STARETOR Hugh S Nesbitts runnerup to Whirlaway in the Kentucky Derby is coming along nicely in his training moves at Hollywood Park where his most mostimportant important objectives are the Derby and Gold Cup WHIRLAWAY TO BE SHORT FAVORITE FOR BELMONT IORD KITCHENER TO GO IN 25000 FIXTURE FIXTURECalumet Calumet Star Sent HalfMile in 48 Tuesday in Preparation for Distance Tightener This Morning MorningNEW NEW YORK N Y June 3 Whirlaway who shapes up no more than a 1 to 4 shot to capture Saturdays seventythird running of the 25000 added Belmont Stakes had a blowout at the Nassau County course this morning in preparation for his final long drill tomorrow tomorrowThe The Calumet stretchrunner had his regu ¬ lar exercise boy the veteran Pinky Brown in the stirrups and working alone over the huge main track was timed a half in 12 24 36 and 48 flat stepping off each fur ¬ long in twelve seconds so ably was he rated by Brown The track was fast fastWhirlaway Whirlaway put in his best distance so far for the mile and a half of the getawayday special last Friday whon he went a breezing mile and an eighth in 152 Trainer Plain Ben Jones is confident that in tomorrows distance final his charge will show that hes on razor edge for his engagement in the Belmont BelmontAs As all know if the hero of the Derby and Preakness also accounts for the Belmont he will join Sir Barton Gallant Fox Omaha and War Admiral on the short list of Amer ¬ icas Triple Crown winners winnersBOLD BOLD IRISHMAN OUT OUTAnother Another development of the Belmont Stakes during the day was trainer Fitzsim mons announcement that Wheatley Stables Bold Irishman will not fill his engagement in that mile and a half Mr Fitz pointed out that his charge had been forced to miss a couple of necessary works due to off track conditions of late and that it had been decided not to risk knocking him out of later stakes by asking him to race a mile and a half against thoroughly tightened horses Saturday Probably the Dwyer at Bold Irishmans home diggins Aqueduct will be his next important objective AVith Bold Irishmans withdrawal from the list of probables came the addition of Glen Riddle Farms Lord Kitchener This son of Blenheim H and Argosy by Man o1 War was a 20000 yearling and a recent graduate He came back on Monday to win a mile allowance race for threeyearolds in 138 leading the Belmont Stakes hopeful Yankee Chance to the finish 1 Trainer W A Carter of the Riddle horses has not received definite word about Lord Kitcheners status Trainer Tom McCreery of Fred Byers good colt Robert Morris incidentally ex ¬ pressed himself as well pleased with that son of Jacopos sparkling distance trial be ¬ tween races on Monday MondayI I believe he would have gone a mile and a quarter in 204 had that been desired but all I wanted to do was get a mile and a quarter into him at a pace a bit slower than a racing gait He came back without slow ¬ ing at all and he is a fit horse said Me Creery ROBERTSON ON ROBERT MORRIS MORRISWell Well work him again Thursday though not so far as he went the first of the week weekRobertson Robertson has been engaged to ride him himThese These four Whirlaway Robert Morris Lord Kitchener and Yankee Chance along with King Ranchs Itabo complete the quin ¬ tet now rated as prospective Belmont stakes starters However none of the last men ¬ tioned three is at all certain to appear and in most observers theory its strictly a race in which Robert Morris will attempt to beat a WhirlawayIt top heavy favorite in Whirlaway It is a curious fact that four of these five Belmont prospects Whirlaway Robert Mor ¬ ris Lord Kitchener and Itabo are scions of the noted Swynford a prime agency of stam ina in Englands and later the worlds blood ¬ stock breeding industry industryWhirlaway Whirlaway and Lord Kitchener sons of Blenheim II trace back in male line to Swynford through Blandford Robert Morris through his sire Jacopo and grandsire San sovino and Itabo through Bold Venture and St Germans GermansThe The stake record for the Belmont at the mile and a half distance to which it was increased back in 1926 is War Admirals 228 which the American time mark for the distance also was established over the same ground on which the Saturday running of New Yorks greatest threeyearold prize will be decided The South American star Sorteado imported by Charles S Howard set the record at 228 when he won the Manhattan Handicap under 112 pounds Sorteado was fatally injured in his subse ¬ quent appearance in the Gallant Fox at Jamaica
