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■ — - " j- ■"■ " " 1 mandm%- ■ ■ -» • ■ ■:■■■■ mt§WBtaWltttaMBBWttWtm i jfiiHhJGrc i W ?aBslipllltll Band * fH Be. ■ * * » £2#H Hrl GEORGE D. WIDENER— President of the Westchester Racing Association, which organization will conduct a charity program at its Belmont Park course today. i i I j | j i I j j ! i i j I i | ! j i j ! j j j ! I ■ j , Run Top Flight Handicap On Belmont Charity Card Seven Fillies and Mares Seek Honors in 0,000 Route Test ELMONT, L. I., N. Y., June 13.— The sixth running of the 0,000 Top Flight Handicap for fillies and mares, three-year-j olds and upward, is the feature event scheduled for Belmont Park tomorrow. This mile and a sixteenth event has drawn a field of seven including two pairs of couplings. Hal Price Headleys Letmenow has been assigned the top impost of 126 pounds. This four-year-old daughter of Menow is followed in the weights by Col. C. V. Whitneys Legend Bearer, Calumet Farms Miss Keeneland and Isadore Biebers Moon Maiden. 122 each; Lazy F Ranchs Plucky Maud, 120, Whitneys Monsoon, 114 and Biebers Bertie S., 109. Racing tomorrow will be on a charity basis with the sport conducted by Belmont Park War Relief Inc., and all profits of the days sport going to relief organiza-i tions, principally the American Red Cross and the National War Fund. Appropriately the supporting races have been named the Leyte, Saipan and Okinawa. The Whitney pair looms the favorite in this edition of the Top Flight named for the famed bearer of the Eton blue Whitney silks in the early 30s. Monsoon, a dimin-! utive gray daughter of Mahmoud and the brilliant Maud Muller, broke a winning streak in her last start here just a week ago when she failed to cope with the strapping Gallorette, currently the eastern Continued on Page Six Run Top Flight Handicap On Belmont Charity Card Seven Fillies and Mares Seek Honors in 0,000 Route Test Continued from Page One filly champion. That was in the one-mile Acorn Stakes and the Whitneyite met the strapping W. L. Brann star at level weights, succumbing by a length and a half. Of tomorrows rivals, Bertie S. finished far be hind her. Monsoons stablemate, Legend Bearer, was beaten by the suddenly rejuvenated lioon Maiden in La Tosca Handicap last Friday. Legend Bearer was beaten a nose by the Bieber mare on that occasion, re- ceiving two pounds. Oddly enough they are at level weights tomorrow, the Whitney filly being penalized two pounds for her defeat in relation to Moon Maiden. Moon Maiden had been beaten previously by Legend Bearer, however, and subsequently turned in a dismal effort im- mediately before her astonishing victory in La Tosca. Plucky Maud finished fifth and last in that race, beaten five lengths after having had early speed. The top weight, Letmenow, has been seen in public only once this year. She came out in a class "D" allowance test won by Tarpan, in which she finished eighth after having been close to the pace for a hali-mile. Letmenow carried 108 pounds taa that event and picks up a mere 18. Miss Keeneland, acting as unruly as ever at the start, appeared here last Wednesday in a six-furlong class "C" handicap won by her stablemate, Ocean Wave. The daughter of Blenheim II. — Lady Peace started slowly in that sprint and continued slowly to the wire. That was her 1945 debut and vast improvement can be anticipated. Two of the owners represented in to-morrows edition of the Toy Flight have won earlier runnings. Calumet Farms Mar-Kell scored with 122 pounds in 1943. while Colonel Whitneys Boojiana tri- umphed last year under 106. Familiar jockeys have been assigned most of the Top Flight candidates tomor-row. Eddie Arcaro will ride the topweighted Letmenow who had Nick Jemas in the saddle for her seasonal debut; W. D. Wright will be aboard Moon Maiden; Arnold Kirkland is listed for both Monsoon and Legend Bearer, by his contract employer. j j j I J j j ! j ! j I j j j j | j j , , j j
