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Belmont Stakes Big Highlight of Week Few Likely to Vie With Count Fleet FleetRenew Renew Meadow Brook Chas Today Vagrancy MarKel Seek Top Flight on Thursda ThursdaELMONT ELMONT L I N Y May 31 Fou stakes features remain to be presented to Belmont Parks well rationed public be tween this and getaway day Saturday Beginning with tomorrow afternoon twentyeighth edition of the 5000 adde Meadow Brook Steeplechase Handicap a about two miles and a half the Westcheste Racing Associations waning spring seasoi moves on to Thursdays 5000 Top Fligh Handicap of a mile and a sixteenth whicl is a kind of mares Suburban and is cli maxed on the weekend by the seventy fifth running of the Belmont Stakes an the 5000 National Stallion StallionThe The Meadow Brook has attracted a firs rate group of hedge horses Thursday fourth running of the Top Flight name for the worlds leading money winner o the sex promises to take a good deal o winning as usual usualBelairs Belairs Vagrancy is the top weight am leading candidate under 128 and ma again encounter her recent nemesis Calu ¬ mets MarKell who carries 122 Othei prospective starters are Bonnet Ann 113 War Hazard 112 the Coaching Clul heroine Too Timely 108 Fair Weathej 106 and Opera Singer Pomrose Stefanita Waygal and Mackerel under the same inv post postNational National Stallion Holds Much Promise PromiseThe The National Stallion is the most impor tant juvenile special thus far in the Loni Island turf season Despite the coughini epidemic it is expected a sizable class array of newcomers will answer the bugk for this fivefurlong run down the chute Among these are Calumets promising coll Herald and Longchamps Farms Mrs Ames winner of the Fashion in her onlj essay essayLucky Lucky Draw winner of the Youthful anc Juvenile is not an eligible incidentally incidentallyOnly Only for the fact that there is 500f second money 2500 third and 100 fourth in the mile and a half of the 25 000 Belmont Stakes Count Fleet doubtless would have a walkover Even his shadow1 Blue Swords is an absentee absenteeAt At the moment it appears one or two from among such as Foxcatchers Fairy Manhurst Greentrees Four Freedoms and Famous Victory and J W Rodgers Dove Pie will go postward with him in this final gem in racings triple diadem diademCount Count Fleet flashed a bit of his extraor ¬ dinary degree of speedinleash Monday at Belmont when he breezed three furlongs in 34 swiftest pipeopener of the days training period periodIncidentally Incidentally Mondays footing marked the first time Count Fleet has found a really dry racing strip for either a race or workout since he breezed five furlongs in 58 on the Belmont training strip previous to his debut April 13 in Jamaicas St James Purse PurseAnother Another interesting bit of calisthenics noted over the weekend was War Hazards Top Flight final of a mile and a furlong in 154 handily on Sunday morning The going was fast at Belmont that morning also alsoWhirlaway Whirlaway is not pointing for any of Belmont Parks stakes events but may ap ¬ pear in a sprint affair at the end of the meeting or early in the Aqueduct season and Monday at the Nassau County course clipped off a mile in 141 in the merest breeze being clocked in 48 101 Vs 113 and 127 at the way points pointsCottesmore Cottesmore and Invader two former win ¬ ners of Meadow Brook renewals are in a promised lot of 11 that are to essay stay ¬ ing the course successfully Tuesday They also are the first and second top weights respectively under 150 and 149 pounds Iron Shot a chase stakes winner at the meeting packs 148 and others run a mod ¬ erate gamut of Brother Jones Corrigan Caddie Good Chance Redlands Frederic II Boojum II and Lechlade the last named the feather weight under 134 134Good Good Chance winner of the Jervis Spen ¬ cer at Pimlico seems especially well suited in this engagement at the route and with a mere t140 to carry Iron Shot is another of the longer winded persuasion
