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Metropolitan Handicap 10000 Three Year Olds and Upward One Mile PP Horse Jockey Wt 1 Scotland Light No Boy 107 2 ShutOut J Gilbert 128 3 Riverland No Boy 126 4 Boysy J Cavens 117 5 War Hazard No Boy 110 6 Vain Prince C McCreary 103 7 Some Chance No Boy 104 8 The Rhymer No Boy 109 9 Market Wise V Nodarse 126 10 Tola Rose W Mehrtens 113 11 Lochinvar T Atkinson 108 12 Omission No Boy 110 13 Marriage J Longden Longden14Devil 116 11614Devil 14Devil Diver G Woolf 117 15 Kings Abbey O Grohs 116 16 Doublrab WEads 17 Thumbs Up O Grohs 18 With Regards No Boy 118 118Greentree Greentree Stable entry Shut Out OutThe The Rhymer and Devil Diver L B BMayer Mayer entry Kings Abbey and andThumbs Thumbs Up Shut Out Tops Metropolitan LineUp Bradley Disposes of Hialeah Holdings Seventeen Confront1 Greeritree Star in Famous Mile Handicap Market Wise Riverland Go In Golden Jubilee Running Of 10000 Belmont Event ELMONT L I N Y May 14 The Metropolitan most famous of Americas mile handicaps has attracted an impressive array of 18 aristocratic thoroughbreds for its 50th running as the stellar offering on Belmont Parks elaborate weekend pro ¬ gram Mrs Payne Whitneys Shut Out champion 1942 money winner has the dubious honor of being the starting top weight in this 10000 fixture with a bur ¬ den of 128 pounds The hero of last springs Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes is estimated to be only two pounds superior to Louis Tufanos storybook horse Market Wise and the Louisiana Farms emanci ¬ pated plater Riverland however In addi ¬ tion to this glamorous trio the field is decorated with the names of Mrs Tilyou Christophers crack sprinter Doublrab Tommy Heards 100 bargain Boysy and Coward DuPuys erstwhile claimer Mar ¬ riage Not to mention a Futurity winner in Some Chance a Hopeful victor in Devil Diver and a former heroine of the Alabama in War Hazard HazardField Field Attests to Campbells Skill SkillHandicapper Handicapper Jack Campbell has endeav ¬ ored to compensate for the uneven quality of the remaining entrants in his weight arrangement The field runs a hetreo geneous gamut from Derby Futurity and Suburban winners to such comparatively inconspicuous animals as Vain Prince the featherweight under 102 pounds The very unwieldiness of the field attests the skill Campbell has exercised in making the weights and it is difficult to predict the post favorite to say nothing of the winner Probably the Greentree runners will enjoy slight favoritism If all 18 face starter George Cassidy which seems extremely unlikely this golden jubilee Metropolitan would net the winner a tidy 11950 11950A A thing that rather confuses the issue in this historic mile run is the fact that the entrants Shut Out Some Chance The Rhymer and With Regards are named also for the Voter Handicap a 3000 overnight event that is to be decided at six furlongs on the main course Trainer John Gaver has three of the Greentree string In the Metropolitan having named the Toboggan winner Devil Diver as well as The Widener victor The Rhymer and the establish establishContinued Continued on Page Two Eighteen to Strive For Metropolitan MetropolitanShut Shut Out Market Wise and Riverland Clash in Famous Mile Handicap at Belmont BelmontContinued Continued from Page One Onements ments outstanding colorbearer Shut Out Louis B Mayer also is represented by a brace of promised starters in Kings Abbey and Thumbs Up UpThe The status of Market Wise also is con jecturable for trainer George Washington Carroll observed that if the racing strip remained muddy as it was when entries closed the son of Brokers Tip hardly would start startThe The appearance of Shut Out Market Wise and Riverland alone would assure the Westchester Association a pretty heady at ¬ traction for the first of its four Saturday fixtures But the Metropolitan is not the only box office allure to be presented for the Voter Handicap boasts a stakes field though it is not a stakes race while several eligibles for the Acorn and Coaching Club American Oaks axe to sport colors in the La Tosca a 2000 allowance test of six furlongs Fair Weather Too Timely and Navigating are prominent entrants in this sprint sprintSeasonal Seasonal Bow for Tufano Ace AceThe The vast majority of the Metropolitan field possess recent form that scarcely warrants any resume of their activities This will be the seasonal debut for Mar ¬ ket WiseA who has trained forwardly at Jamaica and whose principal objective is to duplicate his 1942 triumphs in the Suburban 25000 mile and a quarter spe cial that complements the Metropolitan on May 31 Decoration Day DayShut Shut Out Riverland and Boysy were fortunate in the draw for post positions breaking from Numbers 2 3 and 4 re ¬ spectively while Scotland Light leaves from the rail Market Wise breaks from midway of the field in No 9 Doublrab and With Regards either a much swifter post horse than those distance luminaries drew outside stations stationsJohnny Johnny Gilbert is to have the mount on Shut Out George Woolf again has the leg up on Devil Diver as on the occasion of that fouryearolds Toboggan Handi ¬ cap conquest The Cuban Vincenzio Nodarse has been named to handle Market Wise Rather curiously Wendell Eads who has piloted Jamaicas Cinderella horse so competently in the past transfers his al ¬ legiance to Doublrab today todayThe The Metropolitan time target incident ¬ ally is Jack Highs 135 flat established under a mere 110 pounds in 1930 In 1940 Third Degree won this stake for Mrs Payne Whitney in the creditable time of 135 which in fact was the swiftest mile performance of the year
