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Metropolitan Will Test Crack Milers Attention Seeks to Duplicate His Sires Triumphs in Stake Field of Fourteen Likely For Forty-Ninth Running Of Belmont Park Fixture ELMONT, L. I., N. Y., May 14.— Attention, a son of the gallant Equipoise, hero of the 1932 and 33 Metropolitan Handicap renewals promises to head a large and equally high class field of fourteen or fifteen in Saturdays 49th running of the history-steeped mile fixture of Belmonts spring meetings. Mrs. Parker Comings Albany, N. Y., reared colt looms as a certain public preference with the banner week-end throng expected to see this important handicap, particularly in view of the deflection of Charles Howards Mioiand, even though the Dixie runner-up will be starting top weight under 126 pounds and concedes from one to 16 pounds to the imposing group now reckoned as "probables." Attentions chief rival may prove to be Louis Tufanos Market Wise, who is required by handicapper Jack Campbell to shoulder 125 pounds. However, the Metropolitan status of this son of Brokers Tip is more or less uncertain. Jockey James has been engaged for Market Wise, but the large field in prospect would militate against the prospects of this slow beginner, it is believed, though theres but one turn to negotiate. The remaining candidates more or less f definitely "intended" are W. L. Branns Pictor, 120; Greentree Stables Third Degree, 120, and Swing and Sway, 114; Victor Emanuels Omission, 114; Darby Dan Stables Best Seller, 114; Inwood Stables Cape Cod 114; Myron Selznicks Cant Wait, 114; Tommy Heards Boysy, 114; Jock Whitneys Gramps, 110; C. S. Howards Porters Cap, 110; George Wideners Rosetown, 110; Mrs. J. Eitingers Sir Marlboro, 110, and Hugh S. Nesbitts Staretor, 110. Omissions Move Considered Best If as many as a dozen appear before starter George Cassidy, this ensuing "Met" will yield its winner a tidy net sum of 1,300, not to mention a certain unfading aura of fame. Several aspirants for Saturdays attraction were given serious training this morning at the vast Nassau County course. Gramps and Third Degree worked on the mile and a half main course, while Omission and Rosetown trained on the somewhat deeper mile training oval. Omissions move was considered the smartest of the morning. The recent Toboggan winner bounced over a mile, well in hand, in A95, 1:14 and 1:41%. Gramps also went a mile, skipping through the eight furlongs on the main track in :48%, 1:14% and 1:41%, in breezing fashion. Third Degree, who seemed anchored under his impost in the Toboggan, indicated that he retains his keenest edge, as he worked five furlongs in :23%, :35, :47% and a minute "flat," then eased up the six furlongs in 1:14. Mrs. Payne Whitneys handsome stallion intrigues the interest of racegoers for the reason he is staging a comeback and won the 1940 edition of the Metropolitan in 1:35%, which was the swiftest mile race of the entire year. He carried 123 pounds in that conquest, three more than he is required to pack Saturday. Arcaros Mount Eddie Arcaro, contract booter for "the First Lady of the American Turf," is expected to have the mount on Third Degree, with portsider Wayne "Cowboy" Wright handling Swing and Sway. Incidentally, Swing and Sway and Gramps, like Attention, are sons of the mighty "Ekky," who will be essaying to duplicate the chocolate-colored stallions triumph in the "Met" mile. Rosetown, looking bigger and brighter than in past springs, and with a smart performance in the Toboggan under her girth, is at peak form to represent Belmont prexy George Widener in the week-end fixture. She held plenty of speed breezing on the training track, moving three-eighths in :36 and a half in :48% with much in reserve. Jamestowns flaming red daughter will be trying to give the master of Erdenheim a second consecutive triumph in the Metropolitan, the brilliant Eight Thirty having carried a steadier of 132 to a notable accounting in the 41 renewal. Incidentally, that was his farewell to colors. Theres something valiant about a filly trying to whip the horses in an open handicap that captivates the turf crowds, and Rosetown will have many rooters to emu- Continued on Page Forty-Three. Metropolitan Renewal To Test Crack Milers Attention Out to Duplicate His Sires Feats in Famous Fixture Continued from Page Three late Gunfire, Black Maria and Nimba, others of her sex to have captured the honors in this significant feature. Myron Selznicks Cant Wait is another who will enjoy rather extensive, if somewhat sentimental, support from among those "who knew him when." He has trained kindly and reasonably sound for Tommy Taylor this spring and, on best previous form, would have to be reckoned a formidable factor with a mere 114 pounds to carry. Most Riders Already Assigned Most of the "Met" probables already have riders assigned them. The familiar Don Meade is to handle Attention. Basil James, who last week-end carved the winning riders share of the rich Preakness astride Alsab, will guide Market Wise if that four-year-old fills the engagement. George Woolf, of course, will be the rider on Pic-tor. Johnny" Gilbert is to have the leg up on Omission, with Sterling Young, a familiar boy, aboard Best Seller; Nick Wall on Cape Cod, the versatile Robertson on Cant Wait, Wendell Eads on Boysy, Johnny Longden kicking Rosetown and Ralph Neves aboard Staretor. The Metropolitan has an interesting in-tersectional rivalry angle. The favored Attention is a New Yorker, as is Market Wise, Third Degree, Swing and Sway, Sir Marlboro and Gramps. Pictor is a Free Stater, while Staretor, Cant Wait and Porters Cap are California-owned and Rosetown is a Philadel-phian. Saturdays renewal should be one of the most exciting and important of all the Metropolitans, which developed easily its best race in 1905, the first year it was run at Belmont Park. In that Metropolitan Sysonby and the obscure Race King ran a dead heat, the immortal Sysbonby missing a decisive tally, it is recalled, because he ducked away from a wet spot in the track a few yards ahead of the finish. Another particularly memorable Metropolitan was that of 1934, in which Equipoise met the unbeaten Chase Me. Chase Me broke a leg on the turn, Equipoise brushed by Mr. Khayyam as he moved to the front in the stretch and was disqualified, the purse being awarded Mr. Khayyam. This eventful contest was the basis of the successful comedy, "Three Men on a Horse."
