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Belmont, Suburban Weeks Highlights Three Other Stakes Also on Schedule Holiday Handicap to Draw Assault, Stymie; Faultless Tops Three-Year-Old Race BELMONT PARK, Elmont, L. I., N. Y May 24. The coming week of racing at Belmont Park is without exaggeration the annual high point of the entire Metropolitan season. During the six days of racing the best horses in the land will vie before the largest crowds of the year and, if there is anything to precedent, the championships of both the handicap and three-year-old divisions will be settled before sundown next Saturday. Five stakes are to be decided in the six days, with the fillies and mares meeting in the 0,000 Top Flight Handicap at a mile and a sixteenth on Wednesday, and the leading steeplechasers clashing in the 5,000 Meadow Brook Handicap the same afternoon; on Friday, Memorial Day, the leading handicap horses will meet in the sixty-first running of the 0,000 Suburban at a mile and a quarter, while the following day will be distinguished by the seventy-ninth running of the 00,000 Belmont Stakes for entire three-year-olds, and the 0,000 National Stallion Stakes for two-year-olds. Actually, the latter event always nets its winners considerably more than 0,000, owing to the futurity conditions of the race, and last years winner, Jet Pilot, gleaned 5,690. Mondays feature is the ,000 Fire Arm Purse at one mile that has attracted a field of five, headed by Greentree Stables School Tie at 118 pounds. This fortunate winner of last years Lawrence Realization, in which the favored Mahout bolted, will be opposed by T. P. Morgans False Move, Lazy F Ranchs Calvados, Maine Chance Farms Perfect Bahram, and Arnold Hangers Pujante. Perfect Bahram will probably be a slight choice, but all five contestants are exceedingly undependable. The Top Flight is expected to bring together King Ranchs Bridal Flower, W. L. Branns Gallorette, Mill River Stables Miss Grillo, Mrs. E. E. D. Shaffers Be Faithful and G. H. Bostwicks Risolater, as well as several of the lightweights. If only the ones named go postward, this should be one of the best races of the year. Suburban Weights Due Today The Suburban, weights for which are not due until Monday, is expected to attract King Ranchs Assault and Mrs. Ethel D. Jacobs Stymie, who are second and third behind Whirlaway on the worlds money-winning roster and pressing the Calumet star closely. Two of the most popular mature horses In the country, Assault and Stymie, alone would pack Belmont Park on its traditionally biggest day. Their opposition is expected to come from among Greentree Stables Coincidence, Arnold Hangers Rico Monte, Harry LaMontagnes Larky Day, Richard N. Ryans Talon, E. P. Taylors Windfields and C. V. Whitneys Bright Sword. Assault was the "Horse of the Year" of 1946 and is unbeaten this season, having taken the Grey Lag Handicap at Jamaica and the Dixie at Pimlico in his two appearances, carrying top weight on each occasion. Stymies last appearance was a victory in the Metropolitan, but Assault beat him in the Grey Lag. The Belmont Stakes which is the third tier of the "Triple Crown," is Americas true Derby in the sense that it most closely approximates the conditions of the original Epsom Derby, being at a mile and a half with geldings barred. Calumet Farms Faultless, who finished third in the Kentucky Derby, then won the Preakness and Withers, will attempt to set the seal on his reputation. No less than 146 youngsters are still eligible to the National Stallion, a race which has not attracted more than 13 starters and that many only once, since its first running at Belmont Park in 1905. The best known of this years nominees are Walter P. Chryslers Caltha, Maine Chance Farms Royal Blood, B. F. Whitakers My Request, who beat Royal Blood in the Juvenile Stakes here; C. V. Whitneys Mackinaw and Ghost Run, and G. D. Wideners Rush Hour. Many of the National Stallion nominees have not yet started and there are many fashionably-bred colts and fillies in this group. C. V. Whitney, for instance, has named no less than 17 babes to the five-furlong dash.
