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• ITABO — Will be shipped from New York to Suffolk Downs to fill his engagement in the Governors Handicap at the Boston course Saturday. Fifteen Seek Honors in Swift Stakes Belmont Attraction At Seven Furlongs Bright Willie and American Wolf Will Renew Old Feud-Mayer Entry Rated Highly ELMONT, L. I., N. Y. May 12.— "Beautiful Belmonts" spring meeting, away to a highly successful beginning, will be brightened by three more feature attractions during the remaining four days of the first of its four full weeks. The Swift, a seven-furlong speed test, exclusively for three-year-olds, will have its 42d running as tomorrows mid-week headliner. This ,000 added stake is to be followed Thursday by the unique Jockey Club Plate, which is for juveniles at five-eighths of a mile and is an overnight event. The highlight of the week, by a considerable margin, is Saturdays 49th running of the historically significant 0,000 added Metropolitan Handicap mile. The Swift is the first of the Westchester Associations stakes for three-year-olds and is followed by the incomparably more Important Withers and Belmont. A field of 15 is promised overnight in the ensuing renewal of this attraction and if there are no withdrawals, the winner will earn a tidy purse of ,125 net. Old Rivals in Headliner The Swift has not attracted any of the prominent Derby and Preakness participants, but drew some lightfooted members of the second flighters in this age division. Best known of the lot is Mrs. Ralph Mc-Ilvains Bright Willie, winner of the Hia-leahr Stakes last winter. His main rival may be Mrs. Alice Shermans American Wolf, coincidentally his most formidable foe in the Hialeah, in which Brilliants son beat him an exciting nose. American Wolf, himself, was a stakes winner at the Miami Jockey Club meeting, where he captured the Bahamas. Like Bright Willie, he was regarded highly as a Derby hopeful during Miami days, but since has been somewhat discredited racing in top company. Louis B. Mayer will be represented by a team in the Swift, in Blue Pennant and Kings Abbey. Both won at the recent Jamaica session and will command respect in Belmont vast tote. Another who will not lack for support is Warren Wrights huge colt, Wishbone, who won at Churchill Downs on Derby Day and who is in some quarters rated as smart a prospect as Sun Again. Foxcatchers Fairy Manah, a Derby disappointment but a fast worker, is a Swift eligible with a high private reputation, while the Jeffords Flaught is speedy, if unpredictable. Weight Assignments The conditions of the Swift require American Wolf, Bright Willie, Alohort, Sir War and Buckskin to carry 116 pounds apiece, conceding three pounds to Blue Pennant, Flaught, Dogpatch, Wait a Bit and Bardi, and six pounds each to Listo, Fairy Manah, Salto, Wishbone and Kings Abbey. The Swift was inaugurated at Sheeps-head Bay, the Belmont Park of another generation of Long Island courses, in 1885. It boasts an imposing roll of past winners, among them such immortals as Emperor of Norfolk, Hanover, La Tosca, Hamburg, Stalwart, etc. The winner in 1941 was Victor Emanuels Omission, who accounted for the Toboggan on opening day here and is among the shiftier prospects for Saturdays Metropolitan. Conn McCreary, who booted Omission to his Swift triumph in 1941, will have the mount on King Ranchs Salto this afternoon, that Virginian being one of the outsiders in pre-race calculations, however. Indications today were that the forthcoming Metropolitan will produce a field j of 15 or 16, one of the largest in the annals f of this first of New Yorks trio of great spring handicaps, the other two being the Suburban and Brooklyn. Mrs. Parker Comings Attention, beaten about a long neck by Whirlaway in the I recent thrilling Dixie at Pimlico. promises to be the Metropolitan starting top weight, under 126 pounds.
