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Toboggan Handicap 5000 Three YearOlds and Upward Six SixFurlongs Furlongs FurlongsPP PP Horse Jockey Wt 1 Pompion No Boy 112 2 Wait a Bit N Wall 106 3 Breezff Home N Wall 104 4 Doublrab B Thompson 125 5 Apache No Boy 126 6 Omission No Boy 112 7 Brownie No Boy 106 8 Shut Out J Gilbert 130 9 Devil Diver G Woolf 116 10 The Rhymer No Boy 110 11 Halberd H Lindberff 105 12 Mettlesome T Atkinson 109 13 Parasanff T Atkinson 108 14 Vain Prince C McCreary 104 15 With Regards J Longden 118 16 Thumbs Up O Grohs 116 17 Sicyon No Boy 100 18 Kingfisher B Thompson 112 112W W Ziegler Jr entry Wait a Bit Breezing Home Mrs T Christopher entry Doublrab Kingfisher Green tree Stable entry Shut Out Devil Diver The Rhymer Count Fleet Wins Preakness Belmont Meeting Opens Todcr Toboggan Fashion Inaugural Features FeaturesShut Shut Out Heads Eighteen in SixFurlong Event Juvenile Dash Draws Fourteen Fillies ELMONT L L N Y May 8 Belmont Park farfamed and fashionable course of the Westchester Racing Association will swing open its ornate gates Monday as the huge Nassau County oval ushers in its spring meeting of 24 days during which span the elite of turfdom will seek fame and glory amid a matchless setting of won derous beauty beautyBeginning Beginning with Mondays twin features the Toboggan Handicap and the Fashion a stakes event for twoyearold fillies a star studded cluster of 19 historic fixtures will be renewed during the session with the climax reserved on closing day June 5 for the Diamond Jubilee renewal of the Bel ¬ mont Stakes Americas classic for the threeyearolds for which Mrs oJhn Hertz Count Fleet is an eligible eligibleWidener Widener Expresses Unbounded Confidence If the Jamaica meeting may be gauged as a barometer for racings prospects in this war season it is confidently felt that the same amazing touch of prosperity that attended the sport at the locust manor course will continue to hold at Belmont BelmontContinued Continued on Page Three Fashion Stakes 5000 TwoYearOlds Four and OneHalf Furlongs PP Horse Jockey 1 Letmenow C Bierman 2 Mrs Ames No Boy 3 Chic Shirley G Woolf 4 Ebony Wave No Boy 5 Stepwisely S Young 6 Bold Anna J Gilbert 7 Dare Me A Robertsc 8 Vietta C McCrear 9 Rosa Bonheur S Brooks 10 Flood Waters S Brooks 11 Miss Biscuit No Boy 12 Damask Rose J Longden 13 Thrd o Gld No Boy 14 Photogenic V Nodarse Greentree Stable entry Bold Anna Rosa Bonheur Flood Waters JOHN M GAYER Besides Shut Our Ourhell hell also send out Devil Diver and The TheRhymer Rhymer for Greentree Stable Inaugurate Belmont Meet Today Shut Out Heads Toboggan Field Seventeen VieWith Crack Greentree Racer Fashion Attracts Fourteen Fillies FilliesContinued Continued from Page One OnePark Park At any rate president George D Widener and his associates express un ¬ bounded confidence in a successful meet ¬ ing Likewise they look ahead to competi ¬ tion itself of the gihest plane gratified by the fact that all the better horses in train ¬ ing have been nominated for the hand ¬ somely endowed stakes stakesEight Eight events will be offered daily and racing will begin earlier at Belmont this spring Post time for the first race will be 130 P M Daily double windows will be open from 1215 to 115 P M Also as a time saving measure there will be only 25 minute intervals between races instead of the customary half hour Only the win ¬ ners will be unsaddled in front of the stand Other horses will be ridden off the track as was the custom several years ago to the enclosure in the paddock where their jockeys will weigh in The attractiveness of the young program beggars description It is by far the most sparkling card of the session to date and an indication of the high class racing in store at Americas Ascot Large fields will be in order with close fighting finishes anticipated Included on the opening bill will be the first steeplechase of the New York season The jumping event will be listed as the third race daily dailyMrs Mrs Payne Whitneys Shut Out the DerbyClassicTravers hero and largest money winning thoroughbred of 1942 heads the field of 18 named overnight for the fiftieth running of the 5000 Toboggan Handicap for threeyearolds and upward at six furlongs down the Widener course This old stake once was called the Tobog ¬ gan Slide Handicap because it was first run over a down hill straightaway course through the field at Morris Park ParkShut Shut Out who will celebrate his 1943 bow in the Toboggan is the high weight at 130 pounds and is to be ridden by Johnny Gilbert Having trained impressively all spring the mighty son of Equipoise picked no soft spot for his return to action For opposed to him will be such seasoned speed titans as Mrs Tilyou Christophers Doubl rab rigged at 125 pounds Belair Studs Apache 126 Josephine Grimes With Re ¬ gards 115 Brandywine Stables Pompion 112 Brookmeade Stables Mettlesome 109 Victor Emanuels Omission 112 and others of equally accomplished sprinting talents Shut Out will concede from four to 30 pounds an exacting assignment to say the least leastTrainer Trainer John Gaver also named Devil Diver and The Rhymer to run as an entry with Shut Out and trainer Harris Brown entered Kingfisher along with Doublrab Matt Brady of the Wm J Ziegler forces also entered two in the Toboggan Wait a Bit and Breezing Home HomeIf If all eighteen start the Toboggan which closed with 53 nominations will gross 9125 and net the winner 6250 6250Dare Dare Me to Seek Fashion FashionThe The Fashipn lured a field of 14 of the leading young fillies in a whirl of four and a half furlongs through the chute This will mark its fortyfifth running Endowecl with 5000 it closed with 107 nominations Among the entrants are Brookmeade Sta ¬ bles Dare Me heroine of the Rosedale Stakes at Jamaica Chic Shirley Vietta Damask Rose Thread o Gold Ebony Wave and Photogenic Should they all accept the issue the Fashion would gross about 9075 out of which the winner would net 7200 7200Seven Seven useful jumpers are scheduled to meet in the Trillion Steeplechase of about two miles the Flitaway of 2000 for three yearold fillies attracted 16 entries the Mizzen of 2500 fashioned for threeyear olds and in class C drew 10 starters while the other races on the young pro ¬ gram including one at one mile and a half also filed heavy Incidentally racing secre ¬ tary John B Campbell in order to encour age distance racing has booked at least one event at one mile and and a half each day for the meeting with a minimum of 2000 All stables are packed with thoroughbreds Belmonts capacity exceeds 1000 The out ¬ standing riders in the nation are on hand and the track itself is in perfect condi ¬ tion tionThe The big handicaps have closed especially well as shown by the nominations for the Toboggan and the Fashion There are 53 nominations for the 10000 Metropolitan Handicap scheduled on Saturday and 42 for the 30000 Suburban on May 31 31Count Count Fleet was the only supplementary entry for the Belmont Stakes and it cost Mrs Hertz 2500 to make the sensational colt eligible for the seventyfifth running of the ancient stake Count Fleet also is in the Withers the mile preliminary for the Belmont run May 22 Most important fix ¬ ture of the meeting for threeyearold fillies scheduled for May 26 will be the Coaching Club American Oaks It closed with 116 nominations while there were 48 for the Acorn its preliminary to be run on May 19
