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Alar Alar Outsprints Outsprints Rivals Rivals at at Hawthorne; Hawthorne; First First Flight Flight Returns Returns to to Races Races Today Today Opposed by Quintet! ► In Nimba Handicap Miss Grillo and Be Faithful Meet Juvenile Champion of 1946 in Her Seasonal Bow BELMONT PARK, Elmont, L. I., N. Y., May 15. — The queen will appear before the public tomorrow. C. V. Whitneys First Flight, generally regarded as the best two - year - old of her sex since that same owners Top Flight crushed all opposition back in 1931, is entered in tomorrows Nimba Handicap, an overnight test at a mile and a sixteenth for a ,500 prize. First Flight is opposed by only five other fillies and mares, including a stablemate. but she should know she has been to the races, whether or not she wins. Racing secretary John B. Campbell has let First Flight in the Nimba with 110 pounds, which is three pounds over scale for a three-year-old filly at this stage of the season. Topweight in the test is Mill River Stables Miss Grillo with 124, which is just one over the scale. The others in the Nimba are First Flights running mate, Recce, 108; G. H. "Pete" Bostwicks Riso-later, 114; Mrs. E. E. D. Shaffers Be Faithful, 120, and Mrs. W. Plunket Stewarts Rytina, 107. Last season First Flight won the Fashion, Astoria, Matron and Futurity, and suffered her only defeat in the Juvenile won by Eternal War, appearing unable to run in the deep going along the rail on the Widener course that day, and finishing second. In all her other races, she had both speed and authority to go with her regal appearance. Worked Half Mile in :48 The daughter of Mahmoud — Fly Swatter suffered a knee injury, from which she appears to have fully recovered, and has filled out into a powerful, well-muscled individual. However, the training moves that the dockers have observed have not been particularly impressive, a slow mile and a recent half in :48 being the best they have seen her do in the mornings this spring. Miss Grillo, a winner of the Argentine Derby, in which she headed Rico Monte, and won a stake at Saratoga in record time, as well as the Black Helen Handicap at Hialeah under 130, has just as many bad races to her discredit as she has good ones. She was out of the money before winning the Black Helen and out of the money again in the Gulfstream Handicap that was her next and last start. If in the moon she can be dangerous in the extreme. Continued on Page Six First Flight Launches 1947 Campaign at Belmont Today Continued from Page One Risolater, Be Faithful and Rytina finished in that order in the one mile Pandora Handicap here last week. Risolater just got up in the final strides to head Be Faithful, while Rytina finished seven lengths away after setting the early pace and Recce .was a distant last. Risolater received nine pounds from Be Faithful in that test and gets only six tomorrow, but It was the Bostwick fillys first start of the season and she *as probably short and has improved. Though not a stake winner last season, she was one of the most consistent of her sex in training. Eddie Arcaro will be astride First Flight tomorrow, while Charley Givens will ride Reece. These are the only riders definitely assigned at the moment. Reputation will almost certainly make First Flight the favorite, but she doesnt appear a particularly good risk from this corner, and the race shapes up as one to watch. There is also a stake on tomorrows program for devotees of the field sport, the $~,000 Belmont Spring Maiden Steeplechase at "about" two miles. No less than 16 have been entered for this test, which is for jumpers who are maidens at the time the nominations closed in March. Bostwick will probably send out the favor ites here in Army Power and Jack Spraggon. The former fell when in front at odds-on in his last start.
