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. Suburban Renewal Highlight of Week Presence of Whirlaway to Add I Zest to 0,000 Handicap Race ! Belmont Route Test Also to Draw Market Wise, Mioland, Challedon and Attention ELMONT, L. I., N. Y., May 23. Memorial Day this coming week-end at Belmont, an occasion of unusual significance in these bellicose times, will be celebrated in fitting style. The 56th running of the; great Suburban Handicap will be offered as the attraction through which the Westchester Racing Association hopes to increase its yield to the governmental and War Relief societies coffers. This history-steeped run of a mile and a. quarter is the derby of competition in the handicap division in this brighter side of the tumultous Atlantic and, with a liberal endowment of 0,000, is at once trie richest and most important of the quartet of stakes annually to be renewed during the week directly ahead. The other three are the Corinthian Steeplechase on Tuesdays card, the famed Coaching Club American Oaks on the mid-week program and the Roseben Handicap, which is a companionpiece of the Suburban. The Coaching Club, extended to a mile and a half this spring, has 0,000 added and is the most coveted of the lands three-year-old filly specials. Indications are that the Suburban will be distinguished by the presence of sporting Warren Wrights brilliant entertainer, Whirlaway, who will be opposed by such stalwarts as Market Wise, Challedon, Mioland and the recent Metropolitan winner, Attention. Just that quintet would seem to assure one of the most remarkably classical and exciting of all Suburbans. Theyre at the top of handicapper Campbells weights. Whirlaway is required to carry top weight of 129 pounds, conceding five each to Market Wise, Mioland and Attention, and seven to the evergreen Challedon. He will be a strong public preference. Twenty May Go in 0,000 Fixture The field accompanying these luminaries postward will be a large one, it appears from this distance. Lending the stake an international tone is the-expected presence of Reading n., an Anzac, and Meissen, erstwhile, Peruvian Cup champion. In addition to the interesting aliens, the possibilities include Challedons stablemate, Pictor, Our Boots, Third Degree, Best Seller, Boysy, Swing and Sway, Cant Wait, Corydon, Porters Cap, Bolingbroke, Ocean Blue, Gramps and the reigning queen of the turf, Painted Veil. There are 20 probables in that imposing aggregation, representative of the smartest available handicap talent. Decoration Day is ordinarily marked by the largest attendances at Belmont Parks ! swanky spring meetings. Last May, with a considerably less impressive field in the. days piece de resistance, the turnstiles 1 clicked merrily to the tune of some 54,000. That was the most enormous assemblage ; ever to witness a horse race in the Empire , State. Attendance during the first half, or initial two weeks, of the current meeting of 24 days has represented an increase over that for the corresponding span in 41. This despite the gas shortage. Local turf enthusiasts patriotically are journeying to and from the verdant, mile-. square course on the old Hempstead Turn Pike via the race trains. The number of cars in the Belmont parking lots are pro- portionately far below the crush of a year ; ago. Less than 50 per cent, in fact. ; Bateau Handicap Mondays Feature !. The Westchester Racing Association, what with its tremendous overhead and I liberal prize awards, rarely ever operates at k a profit, however. Its avowed purpose is 3 . the furtherance of the turf "sport for : I sports sake,", but it has pledged to do its ; share in the five New York tracks ambi-j tious goal of contributing one-quarter of I the ,000,000 American racing hopes to i t raise for War Relief societies during 1942. . t Mondays program isnt embellished by r any of the roster of the 19 stakes decided at t j the fashionable Nassau County meeting, , 1 but the Bateau Handicap has attracted a x i.. stakes field. This event is at one mile for r . fillies and mares and the association adds s s ,000 to the purse. s Among the dozen entered are such ac-jr - complished maids as Louis B. Mayers s e Painted Veil, who doubtless will be the fa-.. - vorite; Chas. H. Howards hard-hitting Z - Augury, George Wideners Rosetown, Glen r Riddles War Hazard, heroine of the 1941 1 t Alabama; Brookmeades Pomayya, and I t C. S. Howards Chiquita Mia. d The Coaching Club American Oaks, on Wednesdays mid-week matinee, contains - an overwhelming favorite in the huge a form of William Woodwards homebred, I, s Vagrancy. This classy daughter of Sir Gal-e - lahad m. and the stakes winner Valkyr, by Man o War, already this season has s BASIL JAMES Guided Alsab to his smashing triumph in the Withers on Saturday. i . r t , a x r s - s - Z 1 I I, - s captured the important Pimjico Oaks. She gave an excellent account of herself also in finishing a fast-closing second for the Acorn, at one mile, a distance not well suited to her long-striding style, The mile and a half of the 0,000 American Oaks seems so remarkably in Vagrancys favor that only a scattered few of the remaining candidates are expected to accept. Bonnet Ann, Copperette, Chi- quitav Mia, Mackerel, Red Rosette and Equipet are eligible. All this group except-i ing Equipet, a Pimlico stakes winner, trailed Vagrancy at eight furlongs in the Acorn. Zaca Rosa, a fast-fading winner of the shorter of Belmonts two important three-s year-old filly specials, is a conspicuous ab-e sentee from the Coaching Club. The Roseben sprint feature of the holi- day card at the end of the week has an I allure of ,000 added and will be decided at six furlongs over the Widener course.
