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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, L.-I., N. Y., May 28. One of ihe most brilliant Suburban Handicap fields in the 56-year-old history of that time-tionored mile and a quarter event marked iime today for. Saturdays 0,0.00 added idition, of Belmont Parks Memorial Day special; Turf followers in Gotham and environs meanwhile seemed inclined to install Warden Wrights renowned Whjrlaway iheir favorite in spite of his top impost of L29 pounds in perhaps the strongest field tie has to date encountered in "his quest of Seabiscuits worlds money winning crown. The 1941 "Triple Crown" winner has and371.811 to his credit, 5,919 less than the jrand total amassed by the fabulous Cali-farnian. With all the 10 now expected to ippear for the week-ends epic handicap; ictually facing the starter, this Suburban will be. the richest in its annals, netting the winner 7,550. Whirlaway was so inspiring in his defeat Df Attention and Challedon in Pimlicos important Dixie Handicap that relatively few formists can conceive of his suffering I i reversal in the Suburban. Most of those lardy members of the "Knock Down the Favorite Club are expected to deduce that I - , . 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 JBoots, under 114; Louis B. Mayers Painted Veil, 112; Myron Selz-nicks Cant Wait, 109; Townsend Martins Bolingbroke, 107; Jock Whitneys 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 ofMarket Wise", Attention and Our Boots lends this ensuing Suburban an interesting sidelight in that each df that accomplished trio is a member in-good standing of the "I Beat Whirlaway Club." "Market Wise encompassed this ponderable feat at level weights and in American record time in last falls Jockey Club Cup. Attention Classic Winner Attentions chief claim to fame -came in last summers 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. v Another incidental sidelight of the forthcoming Suburban is in its aspect as an intersectional East vs. West tussle, for Painted Veil, Cant Wait, Welcome Pass and Staretor all are California-owned. Painted Veils presence vseems 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 three 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 Equipoise, 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 Suburanites 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. Staretor went a handy mile in the desultory time of 1:42, his fractions being :49 and 1:16. He was well in hand throughout.
