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Pensive and Platters Return Meeting In Belmont Tomorrow Eagerly Awaited Four Others Also Likely To Face Starter in Rich Mile and Half Fixture FixtureELMONT ELMONT L I N Y June 1 Only two more days of racing remain to this brilliant Belmont Park meeting which comes to a close on Saturday with the 76th running of the Belmont Stakes This years Bel ¬ mont has exceptional interest not alone because it has been boosted to 50000 added but because it will provide a second encounter between Calumet Farms Derby Preakness winner and George D Wideners Platter who was beaten less than a length by the son of Hyperion Penicuik II in the Pimlico classic Pensive will be seeking the Triple Crown on Saturday a bauble which has been worn six times before and by such a notable sextet as Sir Barton Gallant Fox Omaha War Admiral Whirl away and Count Fleet FleetAt At this writing it is doubtful if any handicapper in the country would pick Pensive to beat any one of the six previous Triple Crowners But there is no ques ¬ tion that he is a much improved colt and one who should appreciate the mile and onehalf of this fixture fixtureElement Element of Mystery MysteryThere There is an element of mystery sur ¬ rounding the Widener pair Horsemen rated Platter the best of last seasons two yearolds after his stretchrunning vic ¬ tories in the Pimlico Futurity and Walden last autumn This year he has appeared twice and each time run second He as beaten by Rodney Stone in his debut at Jamaica then succumbed to Pensive in the Preakness after being in front of the Calu ¬ met colt inside the eighth pole He was slow to come to his best form last season and had far less seasoning than Pensive when they met in Maryland so improve ¬ ment is to be expected In addition John ¬ ny Longden appeared unable to control the colt that day and is notably at his best on a frontrunning horse Longden again will ride Platter on Saturday while Eddie Ar caro will be aboard Who Goes There It had originally been thought that the riders would be switched as Longden is at his best on a frontrunner frontrunnerThe The only others who can be considered as likely starters in the Belmont are Wil ¬ liam Zieglers Bounding Home Crispin Oglebays Boy Knight and Wheatley Stables Free Lance All of this group must be accorded outside chances Bounding Home has been closing with a rush in all his races Boy Knight won the race in which Who Goes There failed his public Free Lance appears to like this track and also may like the distance distanceTomorrows Tomorrows program has a distinctly overnight flavor when compared with the prospect for the weekend when the Na ¬ tional Stallion for juveniles will support the Belmont and promises to bring to ¬ gether the elite of the babes who are now ready to race raceThe The nominal feature of the program nominal because it is the only one of the eight races dignified with a name apart from the claiming steeplechase is the Orchard Hills a 2500 allowance race for veterans in class D at a mile and a sixteenth The 3600 Springbok Purse which was to have topped this program failed to fill Ten have been named to contest the Orchard Hills and that band is headed by Sissie Smith under 116 pounds That should give a fair idea of the mediocrity of the contestants The Orchard Hills is scheduled as the sixth race and there are better runners in the following number which is also worth 2500 and lists five entries with claiming tags ranging from 7500 down to 5300 5300The The quintet in this sixfurlong dash are Jamesborough 124 Blue Serge 118 Blue Pom and Cheesestraw 115 apiece arid Cousin Nan 112 Blue Serge will probably be the choice here hereThere There are no less than four maiden races on tomorrows program two of them for juveniles and the other two for threeyear old fillies filliesCol Col E R Bradley has named a promis ingNcolt to the second of the baby races in Big Deal who finished a bangup fourth for his debut The first of the juvenile dashes will be the occasion for the racing debut of Col C V Whitneys highly re ¬ garded BurgelArab a son of Boojum Aparoma
