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Attention in Brilliant Suburban Trial Goes Ten Furlongs In 2:04 1-5 Handily Move Indicates Equipoise Colt Is at Best See Field Of Ten for Saturday Stake ELMONT, L. I., N. Y., May 27. The Suburban Handicap accrues added interest with each passing "work day" for tne eligi-bles to Saturdays history-making run of a mile and a quarter at Belmont Park. Todays training hours were distinguished, for example by a sparkling final prep at the full Surburban distance by Mrs. Parker Comings Metropolitan winner, Attention, who was beaten an exciting neck by Whirl-away in their recent Dixie encounter. Equipoises light-waisted son, the nemesis of Calumets Suburban favorite in last summers Arlington Classic, strode over the 10 furlongs in 2:04M with impressive ease. The sharp-eyed clocking fraternity snapped the fractions in :47, 1:11, 1:38 and 1:52. This trial indicates that Attention can have no excuse on the score of condition in the Memorial Day attraction. The mile and onerhalf oval on the Long Island stageline, Hempstead Turnpike, was in its fastest condition of course. Attention is the most important in general estimates of two sons of the ill-fated Equipoise who were given their final distance tighteners for the ensuing 0,000 special today. The other is Townsend B. Martins five-year-old horse Bolingbroke. This former Manhattan Handicap winner went a mile in 1:39 in clever fashion and eased up nine furlongs in 1 : 53 y5. His fractions during the earlier furlongs were :49, 1:01, 1:14 and 1:26. Longer Work About Concluded These calisthenics about conclude the longer work to be required of those notables of the handicap division pointing for the Suburban, which is perhaps the most coveted and significant of all fixtures of its type on this side of the Atlantic There are 10 accounted probable starters in the stake at the moment. These are headed, of course, by the 1941 "Triple Crown" hero, Whirlaway, who is the top weight under 129 pounds and a strong early favorite, particularly since trainer Gavers announcement that Greentree will not have a starter, which permits jockey Eddie Arcaro to ride-Blenheim II. s stretch-running son. The remaining prospective starters are Market Wise, 124; Attention, 124; Challe-don, 122; Painted Veil, 112; Our Boots, 114; Cant Wait, 109; Bolingbroke, 107; Staretor, 107, and Welcome Pass, the featherweight of the field with 103. Market Wise is to be handled by Basil James, who was astrideBrokers Tips long-winded son when he dusted off Whirlaway inThe Jockey Club Gold Cup last autumn, The familiar Don Meade will have the leg up on Attention. Incidentally "diminutive Don" was astride Your Chance when he won the 1941 Suburban in front of a crowd -of some 50,000, the largest of any at a horse race in New York state. George Woolf, of course, will again handle Challedon. Conn McCreary is to steer Our Boots, who defeated Whirlaway several times during 1940 and 1941. Cant Wait, who qualified impressively for the Suburban in a recent overnighter in which he whipped Bolingbroke, will have John Longden in the stirrups. Bobby Merritt is the probable rider on Bolingbroke, with Billie Thompson on Staretor and Ralph Neves aboard Welcome Pass. With 10 starters the Suburban will gross 8,4000 and yield-its winner a net purse of - 7,500. Incidentally it is interesting that Whirlaway now is within a rather immi-m nent proximity of about 0,000 of Seabis-cuits earnings total, while just ahead are the Suburban, Brooklyn and Butler, totalling 0,000 in added worth.
