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Ireflections — By Nelson Dunsian Boswell Lost No Prestige in Peter Pan Belmont Distance Favors Assaults Rival Armed, 130, vs. Stymie, 123, in Suburban Important Features on Decoration Day NEW YORK, N. Y., May 27. Eurasian will join the stallions at Walter P. Chryslers North Wales Stud in Virginia, and next spring the sign over another stallion will read "First Fiddle". . . It is more than a rumor that the manager of one of Kentuckys largest breeding farms will resign as of June 1. . . . Assaults little brother, Clean Slate, showed promise when he finished third in his debut at Belmont on the week-end. . . . Mrs. Willis Sharpe Kilmer made her first 1946 appearance at a race track to see the Peter Pan renewal. . . . Bridal Flower, a Bradley filly, has not grown much since last fall, but demonstrated she can really run by winning Saturdays seventh race in 1:11%. . . . Give the Fairmount Park management credit for donating the proceeds of one race on Saturdays and holidays to the American Red Cross and other worthy causes. . . . Apprentice P. Miller is as promising a newcomer as there is around New York today. . . . Hollie Hughes tells us that Sanford Stud Farms good three-year-old Round View is fast recovering from his leg injury. . . . Ten of the 14 starters in the Peter Pan were by imported sires. . . . Ted Husing will give a "Belmont Preview" over the air at 4:30 p. m. Friday. . . . Thirty thousand Canadians saw Kingarvie defeat David T. in the Kings Plate at Woodbine Saturday. Mahout, home-bred son of Mahmoud — Ma Minnie, by Man o War, scored a stunning upset when he led Lord Boswell to the wire in the Peter Pan Handicap. The Jeffords colt is eligible for Saturdays Belmont Stakes, but will receive no consessions in that event, as colts carry 126 pounds and fillies 121. Lord Boswell lost few of his admirers in the Peter Pan. As in the Blue Grass Stakes, he appeared hopelessly out of it until he started the rush which electrified the large throng. At the half-mile mark he was thirteenth. He was eighth at the head of the stretch and it did not seem that he could get within striking distance of the leaders, but was fairly running over horses In the dash to the finish line. The longer distance of the Belmont should prove to his advantage. If the Maine Chance colt stays closer to the early pace than he did in the Peter Pan. Assault will have a job cut out for him in winning the race which is the third and last leg of the "Triple Crown." Manor Lad and Cable, who finished third and fourth, respectively, in the Peter Pan, also are Belmont eligible**, but, like Mahout, they will have to carry 126 pounds. John B. Campbells weights for the 0,000 Suburban Handicap drew the attention of racing fans over the week-end. The veteran handicapper assigned 130 pounds to Armed, seven more than Stymie. In the Dixie Handicap, Armed conceded six pounds to the Jacobs router and drew away from him with little difficulty in the stretch run. Stymie receives an additional pound in the Suburban, but if the Dixie is any criterion, Armed should triumph in the Decoration Day race. First Fiddle, third on the list with 122, is followed by Fighting Step, with 118; Sirde, toting 117; Polynesian, carrying 115; the filly Gallorette, at 113, and Concordian, assigned 112. How many of the more lightly weighted horses will be sent to the post is a question and, even though "weight brings them all together," we doubt that this race will get away from one of the eight horses mentioned here. Concordian, who defeated Armed in Florida, could cause an upset — if there is an upset. Tracks throughout the country will stage important events on Decoration Day. At Delaware Park, which opens Wednesday, the holiday feature will be the ,500 Polly Drummond Stakes, a fiv-furlong race for two-year-old fillies. At Suffolk Downs the headliner is the 0,000 Tomasello Handicap, for three-year-olds and upward, at one mile and a sixteenth. Lincoln Fields offers the 5,000 Peabody Memorial, and out in Hollywood the feature event will be the 5,000 Argonaut Handicap, also for three-year-olds and upward, at one mile and a sixteenth. Last years renewal of the Polly Drummond went to Beaugay. This year the event drew the nominations of 132 of the most royally bred fillies in the land. Races like the Polly Drummond and stakes to be decided in June competition will go far in pointing out the leaders in the two-year-old division which to date appear to have high-class performers of both sexes. Later in its meeting Delaware Park will stage the Christiana Stakes and the Dover Stakes, while Aqueduct will renew the Astoria, Tremont and Great American. Paddock sales of horses in training have not been frequent in recent years. Those that have been staged have brought surprising prices. It is a question how much of a bid the six-year-old Bankrupt will attract at the Fasig-Tipton auction, which will be held at Belmont Park on Friday morning. This Townsend Martin horse, who is by Pay Up by Fairway out of Trigos daughter Strong Wheat, won 14 races and approximately 0,000 to the end of 1945, just one of his victories being the Manhattan Handicap. In all, 34 head will be sold at Friday mornings auction, including six from the barn of Mrs. Vera S. Bragg. Among the sextet is the bay colt Jim Jr., a two-year-old who won at Jamaica on May 8. Armor Bearer, the property of Joe Kampf , has won 26 races to date, but now is an 11-year-old gelding. He also goes on the block Friday morning.
