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MAX HIRSCH Sent out A J Sacketts SackettsTola Tola Rose to score in the Forester Graded Handicap at Belmont Park Parkyesterday yesterday Tola Rose Never Headed in Forester Qualifies for Rich Suburban Handicap HandicapGallops Gallops Home Two Lengths Before Bolingbroke in Route Handicap at Belmont Park ParkELMONT ELMONT Ti I N Y May 21 Tola Rose qualified impressively for his engage ¬ ment in the historic Suburban Belmont Parks Memorial Day attraction when he flaunted A J Sacketts dark blue blouse to a facile and frontrunning triumph in this afternoons featured class B Forester Handicap of a mile and a furlong furlongShaking Shaking off all challengers in the first seveneighths of a mile the sixyearold son of Head Play was only coasting under jockey W Mehrtens as he sauntered to the finish with two lengths advantage of the nearest of his five rivals each of them elig ¬ ible for the Suburban The runnerup was Tdwnsend Martins distance performer Bolingbroke who surged forward from the head of the home lane to wrest that plac ¬ ing from Greentrees completely discour ¬ aged Corydon by a neck War Hazard fin ¬ ished fourth fourthThe The time for this affair was 151 which was creditable enough over the muddy surface Tola Rose was the public performance in the tote and rewarded his extensive following with 460 for 2 He was among the high weights under 119 pounds with Kings Abbey shouldering the top burden 122 122The The gathering that braved all the ele ¬ ments as to transportation and weather to be present for this off day arangement numbered 8052 marking the lightest crowd of the current Westchester Association sea ¬ son and a slump of some 6000 below 1942 figures when attending the Belmont races was comparatively a simple matter Tola Rose incidentally brought relief to some financially anemic favorite players proving the third successful choice in a half dozen events eventsNever Never Leaves Result in Doubt DoubtThe The Sackett racer never left the result of the Forester in the remotest doubt bouncing out of starter George Cassidys gate in the van and repelling first War Hazard and then Anticlimax without too much difficulty in the run to the far cor ¬ ner nerTola Tola Rose wheeled around the long home curve showing daylight in front as Anti ¬ climax faded and Corydon made a thrust forward Corydon fared no better than the others however weakening the last furlong without ever having gained close enough proximity of Tola Rose to make the latter run hard enough to keep warm Indeed the Greentree gelding was so spent the last yards old Bolingbroke who had been lagging early overhauled him for the place King Ranchs Eye for Eye who has been placed as if he were suspected of having quality turned up for the six furlongs of the class C Cunard Handicap and splashed home two lengths in front of the favored Eurasian and eight other three yearolds in 112 New Moon was third three lengths away awayMehrtens Mehrtens had Eye for Eye just off the pace of Hoosier Wolf and Breezing Home to the top of the stretch where he cracked down and won drawing out
