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Expected to -Rule Pronounced Choice Despite Heavy Impost Calumet Ace Is Now Only 5,919 Off Seabiscuits Money Mark -Ten May Race ELMONT, Lrl., N. Y., May 28. One of the most brilliant Suburban Handicap fields in the 56-year-old history of that time-honored mile and a quarter event marked time today forJ Saturdays 0,000 added edition, of Belmont Parks Memorial Day speciah .- Turf followers in Gotham and environs meanwhile seemed inclined to install Warden Wrights renowned Whjrlaway their favorite in spite of his top impost of 129 pounds in perhaps the strongest field he has to date encountered in "his quest of Seabiscuits worlds money winning crown. The 1941? "Triple Crown" winner has 71,811 to his credit, 5,919 less than the. grand total amassed by the fabulous Cali-fornian. With all the- 10 now expected to appear for the week-ends epic handicap actually facing the starter, this Suburban will be. the richest in its annals, netting the winner 7,550. Whirlaway was so inspiring in his defeat of Attention and Challedon in Pimlicos" important Dixie Handicap that relatively few formists can conceive of his suffering a reversal in the Suburban. Most of those bardy members of the "Knock Down the Favorite Clubz are expected to deduce that - Louie Tufanos Market Wise will prove the stoutest of the Calumet homebreds rivals. Handicapper Campbell required Whirlaway to concede Brokers Tips "Rags to Riches" son five pounds, while Mrs. Parker Comings .upstate New York-reared Attention, who recently won the mile Metropolitan, and William Leavitt Branns pride of Maryland, Challedon, are next in the weights under 124 apiece. Rounding out an all-star aggregation of probables are Woodvales Our .Boots, under 114; Louis B. . Mayers Painted Veil, 112; Myron Selz-nicks Cant Wait, 109; Townsend Martins " Bolingbroke, 107; Jock Wnitneys Gramps, 107, and Hugh S. Nesbitts Staretor, also burdened with an unflattering 107, and W. E. Boeings Welcome Pass, under an even less .flattering 103. The presence Qf,Market Wise, Attention and Our Boots lends this ensuing Suburban an interesting sidelight in that each . of that accomplished trio is a member in- s good standing of the "I Beat Whirlaway Club." NMarket Wise encompassed this ponderable feat at level weights and in American record time in fast, falls Jockey Club Cup. Attention Classic Winner Attentions chief claim to fame came in lastLsummers Arlington Classic, in which" he "dusted off Whirly in the latters own bailiwick. Our Boots led Whirlaway in the Futurity Trial, Belmont Futurity, Pimlico Futurity and Blue Grass Stakes, but, like the other two, rather poignantly did not beat Whirlaway on some other equally important occasions. 1 v Another incidental sidelight of the forth-. -coming Suburban is in its aspect as an intersectional East vs. West tussle, for Painted Veil, Cant Wait, Welcome Pass x and Staretor all are California-owned. Painted Veils presenceseems an occasion for cheering, as so" few- of her sex have started against the sturdy males in Suburban renewals and only three have emerged successful. Each of the ihree earned a special niche in turfdoms Hall, of Fame. These were Harness and Bross-mans Imp by coal, black Lady in 1899, August Belmonts: Beldame in 1905, and Walter Jeffords Bateau in 1928. stall another angle of passing interest is that no fewer than three of the 10 probables are sons of the late lamented Equi- -poise, who in his heyday was somewhat of a "Suburban route specialist." His representatives are Attention, Bolingbroke and Gramps. Equipoise won the 1933 Suburban in one of the most memorable runnings ef the stake. The Chocolate Soldier carried 132 pounds and galloped home in 2:02. He essayed to repeat in 1934, but was beaten a calamitous inch by the lightly weighted Ladysman. Bert Mulholland, Of the Erdenheim forces, advises that the string which provided the winners" of-the 1940; Eight Thirty, and 1941, Your Chance, renewals of the Suburban will not be represened in the stake this spring. The only Subufanites to receive preps of any moment this morning were Painted Veal and Staretor. Painted Veil, a commendable second in the recent Bateau Handicap of one mile, tuned up .with a half in :50 and five furlongs in 1:03, -breezing all the w.ay. Starelor went a handy mile in the desultory time of 1:42, his fractions being :49 and 1:16. He was well in hand throughout.
