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Count Fleet Displays His Speed Again Indicates Fitness For Rich Belmont BelmontGoes Goes Mile and Quarter in 207 Work Devil Diver And Our Boots for Suburban SuburbanNEW NEW YORK N Y May 27 Count Fleet continues to do the implausible This was work day on the schedule of Mrs John Hertz prohibitive Belmont Stakes favorite and trainer G Don Cameron ordered a mile arid a quarter move in preparation for the 75th running of that fabled mile and a half classic a week from Saturday SaturdayBowling Bowling along under jockey John Long dens wraps in the middle of a course that was deep in stiffening mud after yesterdays deluge Count Fleet was timed in 23Vs 35 48y5 IrOls 114 127 141 I54y5 and pulling up in 20745 It was easily the swiftest trial of the days train ¬ ing in every phase of the trip and dockers declared he might easily have gone seconds faster fasterBottom Bottom Rail accompanied The Count for the first three furlongs after which the Hertz colt fell into a steady furlongin13 clip which he maintained throughout throughoutAlso Also working over the mile and a half main oval at the Nassau County course Mrs Payne Whitneys TobogganMetropol ¬ itan victor Devil Diver put in a handy mile and a quarter in 211 which indi ¬ cates he is an intended entrant in Mon ¬ days 30000 Suburban Handicap Bel monts War Relief day attraction attractionDevil Devil Divers fractions were 119 146 and 158 He was asked to run only over the latter furlongs of the mover moverAnother Another illustrious Suburban hopeful to work was Woodvales Our Boots who moved along a mile in 142 on the main oval ovalRoseben Roseben and Peter Pan Trials TrialsWith With Regards Josephine Grimes speedy Roseben handicap prospect skipped through the innervating course in 115 handily for six furlongs The Roseben is to be decided down the Widener chute Sat ¬ urday for a purse of 5000 added Its 7500 companion feature the mile and a furlong of the Peter Pan Handicap is the objective of several Belmont breezers Fairy Manhurst Supermont and Famous Victory each went a mile in preparation for that stake The first named breezed the distance in 146 Vs while Famous Victory shaded that time a fifth of a second in the same fashion Going handily Supermont was timed in 143 143Slide Slide Rule who may be the starting top weight in the Peter Pan under 120 pounds breezed five furlongs in 106 106Name Name horses will have another offday Friday at the Westchester meeting The programs featured offering is the 2000 Bonniebert Purse for threeyearolds and upward at one mile A well balanced if un ¬ obtrusive array of 14 is named for this af ¬ fair the colors of Joseph E Widener to be carried by a team in Nipsickle and Gothic Blue Serge Coat of Arms Penobscot Bay and others of that caliber are in the prom ¬ ised field Only three of the eight events are at distances under one mile incidental ¬ ly and several of them drew sizable fields making for what is known as good betting races
