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, : : ; I [ I • I • I i r Metropolitan Mile To Attract Stymie Indicates His Readiness for Belmont Stake With Trial Of Eight Furlongs in 7 :43 BELMONT PARK, Elmont, L. I., April 7. — Stymie indicated this morning that he will be ready for Saturdays fifty-fourth running of the Metropolitan Handicap when he worked a mile in 1:43 over the fast Jamaica track, merely breezing all the way. His fractions were :48 for the half and 1:14% for the six furlongs. It was something of a surprise yesterday when trainer Hirsch Jacobs announced that the route-running stallion would start in the 5,000 mile event rather than in the longer Dixie Handicap at Pimlico on Friday, but there is the one advantage in staying here that Stymie will not have to cope with King Ranchs Assault. Actually, Jacobs does not believe that a mile is necessarily too short for Stymie, particularly at Belmont Park with its long stretch. Though he failed miserably in his six-furlong debut this season, he was all but left at the post, and in last Saturdays Grey Lag Handicap it was not so much lack of speed, but the superiority of Assault and the malignancy of Calvados that kept him back in fourth place at the wire. Rivals of Jacobs Router Stymie will probably be opposed by W. L. Branns Gallorette, who won the stake last year; Gallorette, who won the stake last year; Joe W. Browns King Dorsett, E. P. Taylors Windfields, Sunshine Stables Lets Dance and Buzfuz, Harry LaMontagnes Larky Day, and possibly two or three others, including Greentree Stables Coincidence, who is also a Dixie candidate. Job Dean Jessop has been assigned the mount on Gallorette. Tomorrows feature is the ,500 Hempstead Handicap, an over-night test for class B horses at six furlongs on the main course. This dash is headed by Norman W. Churchs Quick Reward, at 122 pounds. This fellow will be coupled with Safe Reward, who has 113. Quick Reward was a stakes winner at Santa Anita and has showed enough speed to win this race if at his best. Trainer E. L. "Woody" Fitzgerald usually has his horses ready at the first asking. The Church pairs chief rivals in the Hempstead appear to be Jaclyn Stables Inroc, 120; Maine Chance Farms Perfect Bahram, 116; Joe W. Browns Michigan Kid, 114, and Flareback, 110, and A. C. Ernsts Aladear, 109. The field for the Hempstead is completed by Rabies, Happy C. and Half After at 110 each; Speeding Home, 113, and Danada Red, 112. Inroc was a beaten favorite in his last Jamaica start, finishing almost four lengths back of Brown Mogul after dwelling at the start, but beat a good field in his previous engagement. Perfect Bahram finished well in a sprint at Jamaica to reach the wire just a length back of the vastly improved Degage, with Danada Red far back. Apart from the fifth race, a dash for juvenile fillies, tomorrows races have attracted large fields, which appear well matched.
