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. _ , — Five Slated to Face Gallorette In Belmonts Filly-Mare Feature Fleet Brann Miss Meets t E Ipis, Recce and Surosa In Mile Nimba Handicap BELMONT PARK, Elmont, N. Y., May 23. — Six of the best fillies and mares now in training will provide the main attraction at strike -bound Belmont Park tomorrow, the feature event being the ,000 Nimba Handicap at one mile. This event is headed by W. L. Branns brilliant filly, Gallorette, winner of the Metropolitan Handicap in her last start and who will have to pick up 122 pounds. The daughter of Challenger II. — Laura Gal, is followed in the weights by C. V. Whitneys Recce at 119; William Helis Elpis 116; Foxcather Farms Surosa 113; Darby Dan Farms Darbu Dunedin 112 and Joseph Dushocks Mah-moudess 109. While Gallorette is sure to be the favorite here on the strength of her upset victory over masculine rivals in the Metropolitan, the Nimba shapes up an exceedingly open race on paper. None of the six candidates can be ignored. Winner of Coaching Club Oaks Last Year Elpis may be the Brann fillys chief rival. The Helis lass won the Coaching Club American Oaks last season and has won two of her four starts this year. In her last appearance here at Belmont she beat Mahmoudess and Surosa with authority, giving the gray filly two pounds and receiving three from Surosa. The test was at one mile and was run in the sluggish time of 1:39 Vs. Gallorette stepped that route in 1:37 in the Metropolitan. Recce won her 1946 debut here last week, just managing to trounce Darby Dunedin by a head at six furlongs over a sloppy track. That race was run in 1:12%. In Surosas behalf it should be said that she continues to be an exceptionally unlucky filly but looked rather tucked up before her last start. However, she and Mahmoudess are both rather well placed in weights. Only one jockey has been assigned a mount in the Nimba, Harrison B. Wilson being named for Darby Dunedin. Fields for most of tomorrows races are reasonably large despite the strike of the van men, which restricts entries almost entirely to horses already quartered at Belmont Park. The nightcap, which was canceled yesterday and another race drawn in its place, has attracted 14 with four more on the also eligible list. The Overbrook Purse, a mile and a sixteenth test for the three-year-olds in the Grade D. classification serves as the secondary offering and matches a group of nine members of the division. Jackamine. under top weight of 122 and who will run coupled with Sobre Todos, appears the favorite here.
