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Topnotch Fencers In Meadow Brook BrookBrother Brother Jones Iron Shot and Knights Quest Among Seven Named for Belmont Fixture FixtureELMONT ELMONT L I N Yt May 30 The richest of the hedge stakes of the spring season holds the spotlight at Belmont Park tomorrow when the 6000 Meadow Brook Steeplechase Handicap at about two miles and onehalf will have its twentyninth running over 16 obstacles While only seven chasers have been named overnight the group includes all the top flight jump ¬ ers now in training and the comparative smallness of the field should make for a cleaner race raceThe The Meadow Brook is headed by H E Talbotts Brother Jones who scored a thrilling victory here last Tuesday in the Corinthian beating Miss Ella A Wideners Iron Shot and Bayard Sharps Knights Quest in a lace handkerchief finish Brother Jones will carry 161 pounds to ¬ morrow and be ridden by the familiar G Walker while Iron Shot will have 159 and N Brown Knights Quest gets in with 147 pounds and W Passmore At these weights this trio again figures very close with Brother Jones who won last years Grand National as well as the 1943 re ¬ newal of the Meadow Brook sure to be the favorite favoriteIron Iron Shot has plenty of stamina and fin ¬ ished the Corinthian almost as well as Brother Jones but has been timidly rid ¬ den in his last two races the rider taking up at his hedges causing him to make mistakes that cost him much ground and consequently fatigue Knights Quest is a speed horse but some times as last week holds on well wellEntry Entry Well Regarded RegardedThe The others in the Meadow Brook are all dangerous on their best form They con ¬ sist of M A Cushmans Rouge Dragon and W H Lipscombs Mercator who will run as an entry with 160 and 143 pounds re ¬ spectively W Owens who has been riding well at this meeting will be aboard Rouge Dragon while the capable J S Harrison has the mount on Mercator Rokeby Sta ¬ bles Caddie has 150 and Emmett Roberts while R V N Gambrills Parma is the light weight of the party under 135 and will be ridden by R Miller MillerThe The richest of the flat races on tomor ¬ rows program is the Manorville Handicap a class C test at a mile and oneeighth which has drawn a field of nine Pops Pick who dwelt at the start of his last race is top weight here with 122 pounds The others are Air Current 119 Great Rush with the same burden Bankrupt 116 Lord Calvert and Plantagenet 122 each Transformer 110 and Porters Cap 108 These are familiar middledistance performers George Woolf will be riding Great Rush and his popularity may make that horse favorite over Pops Pick and Air Current in what seems an open race raceThere There is a 3000 dash for juvenile fillies to be run down the Widener Course and this fivefurlong event has drawn six promising debutantes Wheatley Stables Drumuir gets in here with 105 pounds and Bobby Permane will probably be a firm choice after her last race in which she was narrowly beaten by Ariel Display in a race down the same chute The others are Pamela C 115 Jamesina Up in Time Silver Smoke and Snarkling 110 each Ac ¬ tually some of the fillies in the 110pound group will probably have to concede more than five pounds to Drumuir for it is doubtful if Atkinson on Silver Smoke or Woolf on Jamesina can make 110 pounds at this time timeThe The fourth race on the program is another 3000 events styled the Hidden Spring Handicap and its for class C speedsters at six furlongs It has drawn such wellknown sprinters as Harvard Square top weight with 122 pounds Sun cap 120 Ringmenow 120 Son of Peace and Gold Shower 118 apiece Hasteville who will be coupled with Ringmenow at 117 Piccadilly and Old Grad 114 each Colchis 113 and Alforaye 107 All of these horses have raced well at this meeting or at Jamaica
