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Twelve Twelve to to Clash Clash in in Peabody Pea body Memorial; Memorial; Whirlaway Whirlaway Tops Tops Crack Crack Suburban Suburban Field Field Even Dozen Named For 0,000 Event Attention and Market Wise Calumet Aces Main Rivals In Epic Renewal at Belmont Suburban Handicap, 0,000, Three-Year-Olds and Upward., One and One-Quarter Miles. PP. Horse. Jockey Wt. 1 Welcome Pass R. Neves 105 2 Painted Veil J. Westrope 112 3 Attention D. Meade 124 4 Bolingbroke R. Neves 107 5 Whirlaway E. Arcaro 129 6 Paperboy No Boy 105 7 Staretor J. Stout 107 8 Market Wise No Boy 124 9 Challedon G. Woolf 122 10 Cant Wait J.Longden 109 11 Pictor No Boy 117 12 Our Boots W. D. Wright 114 W. L. Brann entry Challedon and Pictor. ELMONT, L. I., N. Y., May 29. The Suburban, a heritage of Belmont Park from the gay, horse and buggy era at Sheepshead Bay, will have its fifty-sixth running as the feature of an especially alluring double stake Memorial Day program at the fashionable Nassau County course tomorrow. Whirlaway, one of the most exciting and popular entertainers on the contemporary American turf scene, heads an all-star field of a dozen named over-night for this historically significant 0,000 added run of a mile and a quarter. The 1941 "Triple Crown" winners prestige is such that, despite top weight of 129 pounds, he is expected to parade a staunch public preference. "I Beat. Whirlaway" The noted Chicagoan will be opposed by three whose chief claim to fame are that they encompassed his defeat on some important occasion earlier in their careers. These are Market Wise, who shoulders 124 pounds; Attention, under a like assignment, and Our Boots with a feathery 114. Market Wise and Attention, the latter winner of the Metropolitan Handicap, looms as the principal rivals of the aesthetically long-tailed Calumet ace. The remaining members of the field are the renowned Challedon, under 122; his stablemate, Pic- Continued on Page Three h . Eleven Oppose Whirlaway Today In Historic Suburban Renewal Attention and Market Wise Main Rivals in Belmonts 0,000 Holiday Feature Continued from Page One tor, with 117; that grand mare, Painted Veil, carrying 112; Cant Wait, 109; Bol-ingbroke, 107; Paperboy, 105, and Welcome Pass, 103. This will be the richest, as well as one of the most classical of all Suburbans, netting its winner 8,050 if the dozen promised all accept. The days program is one of extraordinarily high class throughout, Belmont surpassing even itself in this respect. The secondary offering is the ,000 Roseben Handicap, which has drawn ten swift speed artists including Parasang, Level Best, Omission, Dispose and Some Chance, hero of the Belmont Futurity last autumn. In addition some of the better fillies, among them Mar-Kell, the Acorn winner, Zaca Rosa, and the hard-hitting Transient, distinguish the Imp Handicap of seven furlongs with their presence. j Belmont Park, the Taj Mahal of this continents race courses, never presented a more eye-filling vista as a setting for the turf sport nor quite so many comforts for its cosmopolitan patronage than it does this spring. The management is taking i special precautionary measures to assure its attendance safety in these bellicose i times while the Stevens Catering concern reports an almost unprecedented crush of requests for luncheon reservations in the large, modern clubhouse restaurant. Of course, the days bright particular star is Whirlaway. His mad inspiring rush from last to iirst place in the recent Dixie certainly hasnt diminished his status as a good "box-office" attraction and trainer Jones reports him ready to the minute for this afternoons Suburban, at a distance a sixteenth of a mile greater than the Pim-lico annifal marking his latest essay. EDDiE ARCARO The rider of Whirlaway Jn his "Triple Crown" triumphs last year, will be in the saddle this afternoon when the Wright star goes post-ward in the Suburban. to reckon with, judging from his defeat of Bolingbroke in a Suburban prep. He is decidedly secondhand about the legs, but trainer Tommy Taylor had his going soundly enough in the overnighter just referred to and, with only 109 aboard, Victorians photogenique son may be troublesome. Whirlaway revealed an unsuspected-order of early foot when he opened up this morning in :23, :47 and up in l:1415 under an armload of wraps. Paperboy, an unexpected entrant, opened up in 1:14 in the same fashion. On the training track Cant Wait breezed a half in :49 and Chelledon five furlongs in 1:02 and some inconsequential change. The moves are of no apparent importance because each of those named has demonstrated his fitness, both in actual competition and during morning spins. None can have an excuse on the score of condition.
