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MRS DODGE SLOAN E Pomayya and andYarrow Yarrow Maid carry her Brookmeade BrookmeadeStable Stable silks in todays running of the theTop Top Flight Handicap Vagrancy and MarKell Rivalry Features Renewal of Top Flight Former Concedes Six Pounds To Calumet Miss Pomayya Among Five Others Named NamedELMONT ELMONT L I N Y June 2 Vagrancy 1942 queen of the turf will be the magnet that attracts tomorrow at Belmont Park when she endeavors to advance her claims to the title again this season in the third renewal of the important 5000 added Top Flight Handicap This mile and a six ¬ teenth finds the giantess from Belair Stud opposed by her recent nemesis MarKell and five others of Americas most formida ¬ ble members of the sex sexThis This stout daughter of SirGallahad TTT is required to shoulder the heaviest impost of the acceptances by handicapper Camp ¬ bell who assigned her 128 pounds more weight than was carried by any previous heroine of the Top Flight Vagrancys prestige is such however that she is ex ¬ pected to parade postward as the publics preference to spot MarKell six pounds and reverse the unexpected result of their recent encounter encounterWellBalanced WellBalanced Field FieldA A ponderable factor in this premise is the weightshift of half a dozen pounds and the added sixteenthmile distance in favor of Vagrancy VagrancyThe The Top Flight would be a Thursday feature of unusual box office were only this pair of amazons to appear but ac ¬ companying them postward will be Mrs Dodge Sloanes stakes winners Pomayya and Yarrow Maid under 122 and 109 pounds respectively and the erstwhile Alabama winner War Hazard who flies fliesContinued Continued on Page Three Top Flight Draws Seven Fast Fillies FilliesVagrancy Vagrancy MarKell Rivalry To Feature Renewal of Mile And Sixteenth Belmont Race RaceContinued Continued from Page One OneS S D Riddles black and yellow trimmed standard and is estimated at 112 Not to forget Gustave Rings Night Glow with a feathery 102 and George D Wideners threeyearold Stefanita who carries 106 106These These less distinguished fillies and mares round out a wellbalanced field at the weights though if any of them discovers the ability to encompass the defeat of both Vagrancy and MarKell it will occasion some surprise among the cognoscenti and consternation in the tote market marketThe The Top Flight is supported by an un ¬ commonly well filled program of seven other events including the customary stee ¬ plechase This promises to prove one of the more significant runnings of the Mares Suburban which is obviously a memorial to the worlds leading money winner of the sex sexThe The smartest performance recorded thus far in the annals of this young fixture was that of Crispin Oglebays Level Best last spring when she shouldered the highest impost 123 and turned in the swiftest time 142 of any Top Flight winner Like Vagrancy Level Best was four at the time timePost Post positions are of no great moment in a small field at the distance but Mar Kell has drawn number 2 and Vagrancy number 5 Billie Thompson will have the mount on Warren Wrights highstrung sister of the Acorn winner Nellie L in the absence of the suspended Wendell Eads No rider has been claimed for Va ¬ grancy The veteran Robertson will boot Pomayya with McCreary atop Stefanita who incidentally has blinkers on for the occasion occasionVagrancy Vagrancy was a starter in the Suburban on Memorial Day and created the flatter ¬ ing impression she may have been a de ¬ cidedly aggressive factor in the finish only for being shut off and forced back by Shut Out at the threefurlong pole In advance of that bold essay to vanquish a milliondollar field of males Vagrancy was a winner over the Belmont strip stripThe The Top Flight is expected to disclose if MarKells defeat of Vagrancy was by grace of the latters lack of condition If Blenheim ns lightwaisted daughter can corroborate the evidence of that encounter with The Jockey Club chairmans filly she will have projected herself into trie fore ¬ front of 1943s crop of handicap mares
