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- Belmont Stakes Major Attraction This Week Lord Boswell Opposes Assault In His Quest of Triple Crown BELMONT PARK, Elmont, L. I., N. Y., May 25. — Belmont Park enters its climactic week on Monday with the 0,000 Top Flight Handicap attracting the leading fillies and mares on Wednesday, the 0,-000 Suburban Handicap offering the cream of the older horses on Thursday, Memorial Day, and the 00,000 Belmont Stakes at a mile and a half providing the third tier of the "Triple Crown" on the week-end. Saturdays card will also be adorned by the 0,000 National Stallion. In addition there is the Meadowbrook Steeplechase Handicap for a 0,000 prize on Tuesday in which the jumpers will cavort for two and a half miles, give or take a yard or so. The highlight of the week is expected to come Saturday with King Ranchs Assault, winner of the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Wood Memorial, going postward in quest of the "Triple Crown" which would definitely establish him as the head man of the countrys three-year-olds. Assault was a romping winner in the Derby but had all he could do to stave off Maine Chance Farms ord Boswell in the Preakness. The son of Bold Venture, who went wrong before the Belmont of 1936, has done everything asked of him this year, except in the Derby Trial, but has yet to capture the fancy of the general public. A victory in the Belmont will place him in the ranks of the truly good three-year-olds. Lord Boswell is still entered in todays Peter Pan Handicap at this writing and looms strictly the one to beat in the Belmont. The son of Boswell — Fantine was rated the leading two-year-old of the season in 1945 by racing secretary-handicap-per John B. Campbell. After finishing fourth in the Derby, he ran a much improved race in the Preakness, only succumbing by a neck and cutting Assaults margin down with every stride in that mile and three-sixteenths. The added distance of the Belmont may be in his favor.
