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MAJTHMcCREERY Robert Morris in final Trial For Saturdays Engagement in Belmont Sent Four Furlongs in 49 Through Chill Rain and Over Sloppy Track TrackNEW NEW YORK N Y June 5 Robert Mor ¬ ris the main hope of the Knocking the Favorite Club to achieve the seemingly im ¬ possible and peg back Whirlaways blister ¬ ing stretch run in Saturdays seventythird edition of the famed Belmont Stakes was the only one of the quartet of probables to work through the chill rain and slop at the Hempstead Turnpike course today todayMajor Major Tom McCreery did not ask Fred Byers Pittsburghowned candidate for any ¬ thing more than a blowout and the strap ¬ ping brown son of Jacopo put in a handy half mile in 49 which constituted as good a move as any during the morning at the distance distanceWhirlaway Whirlaway and Itabo the latter boasting a faint ura of the exclusiveness that sur ¬ rounds unbeaten horses both had their final distance trials for Saturdays history mak ¬ ing getawayday attraction yesterday morn ¬ ing before the track became water soaked While Robert Morris put in a mile and a half between races on Mondays fast racing strip in 237if the mile and a quarter in 206 The main part of their work behind them Belmont Stakes hopefuls now are marking time for Saturdays rich mile and a half event with only final pipe openers await ¬ ing them before being ready for the bugle bugleThis This afternoon there was some indication that only Whirlaway Robert Morris and Itabo will go to the post Trainer Ed Sny der of C V Whitneys Yankee Chance said that his charge would be a starter only in the event the going is fast And at the time he made this announcement the racing strip resembled a duck pond though it dries rap ¬ idly and is well drained drainedSTAKE STAKE MAY GROSS 52270 52270If If four start in the Belmont Stakes it will gross 52270 and will net the winner 39870 if the winner is among those nom ¬ inated as a weanling If he was nominated as a yearling his earnings will be boosted by 39770 The Belmont has 25000 in en ¬ dowment by the Westchester Racing Asso ¬ ciation Last year Bimelech picked up 35030 through his Belmont victory The stake reached its peak value in 1931 when Twenty N Grand beat two others to earn 66040 66040One One of the traditions of the Belmont Stakes is the presentation of the August Belmont Memorial Cup by Mrs August Belmont widow of Major Belmont for whom Belmont Park was named Major Belmont was the son of the August Belmont for whom the Belmont Stakes was named and who was a cofounder of The Jockey Club The Belmont Stakes trophy is a hand ¬ some silver cup that first came into the Bel ¬ mont family in 1869 1869Whirlaway Whirlaway incidentally is probably the most carefully guarded horse in training His stall is practically a cage with a frame that extends the entrance out several feet into the shed areaway and this structure is covered with a stout screening In addition theres always at least one guard within sev ¬ eral feet of the entrance to the stall The possibility of any one getting to Whirlaway is reduced to an alltime mini ¬ mum
