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Ak-Sar-Ben Correction The sixth horse in the third race at Ak-Sar-Ben today should read Rough Creek instead of Rock Creek, repeat Rough Creek. Jockey Eddie Arcaro, who seems to fit Blenheim n.s remarkably durable offspring perfectly, will have the mount on him in the Suburban. Winning or losing, Whirlaway can be depended upon to make any race in which he participates a thrilling spectacle. But Market Wise is a popular performer in his own right on Long Island. Ever so many Jamaicans will back him, recalling vividly that he outfinished Whirlaway at level weights in The Jockey Club Cup last autumn in their latest encounter. They are not convinced Whirlaway can successfully concede "the Cinderella horse" five pounds. They point out that Whirlaway was veering, as is his wont, in the Dixie stretch run, and declare that Market Wise is ready to make him revolve like a gyroscope today. Attention, too, has a noisily confident minority of supporters. The railbirds chirp that Don Meade, who brought him off the pace successfully in the mile Metropolitan, will reserve him alongside Whirlaway this afternoon, moving as the favorite moves, a strategy that has been employed to excellent purpose by Whirlaways rivals in the past. The others., some of whom are scarcely less well recommended in their past performances, lend this Suburban all sorts of interesting possibilities. For example theres the mare Painted Veil, who was voted the outstanding runner of her sex in 1941, and seems just as formidable this year. She hails fro msunny California, whence came numerous amazons of the turf since the Civil War days of Molly McCarthy. Painted Veil was a sort of a heroine in defeat in the mile Bateau Handicap, marking her latest public appearance. War Hazard beat her an exciting profile, but Bue Larkspurs latest great daughter was conceding weight and had many of the smartest mares in America calling for a pulmotor. She is not excessively burdened at 112 to become the fourth of her sex to capture a Suburban, the other three being Imp, Beldame and Bateau. Cant Wait may possibly prove a factor
