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Minutes Minutes Wins Wins Exterminator Exterminator in in Drive; Drive; Top Top Flight Flight Handicap Handicap Engages Engages Twelve Twelve Bridal Flower Seen! As Choice in Stake Be Faithful and Miss Grillo Also Seek Filly-Mare Event; Six in Meadow Brook Chase BELMONT PARK, Elmont, L. I., N. Y., May 27. The eighth running of the 0,000 Top Flight Handicap at a mile and a sixteenth and the fifteenth edition of the 5,000 Meadow Brook Steeplechase Handicap at about two miles and a half illuminates tomorrows sparkling Belmont Park program. A dozen of the better fillies and mares have been entered overnight in the Top Flight, headed by King Ranchs Bridal Flower, who looms a solid choice,- despite her 126-pound impost. There are only six in the Meadow Brook, with Elkridge and War Battle heading the field as the Kent Miller entry at 158 and 156 pounds, respectively. Bridal Flower has to give from three to 23 pounds to her rivals in the Top Flight, the most formidable of whom appear to be Mill River Stables Miss Grillo, 123; Mrs. E. D. Shaffers Be Faithful, 121; Maine Chance Farms War Date, 117, and George D. Wideners Half After, 113. The others in the Top Flight and some of them cannot be entirely ignored are Arnold Hangers Sweet Caprice, 113; Joe W. Browns Dorothy Brown, 110; William Helis Elpis, 109; C. V. Whitneys Recce, 107; A. G. Vanderbilts Nomadic, 106; Mrs.! W. Plunket Stewards Rytina, 104, and Glen Riddle Farms Merry Lass, 103. Double Winner This Season Bridal Flower, who appears to be the best of the horses acquired by lot after the Col. E. R. Bradley sale, has started twice this year and won both times. Over at Jamaica she got up in the final jump of a six-furlong dash to beat Rytina by a nose, with Recce a distant third. The Daughter of Challenger n. Big Hurry came back to beat Be Faithful in the first running of the Regret Handicap here at Belmont and at the same distance as the Top Flight. Bridal Flower was only giving Be Faithful one pound in that race and must concede five Continued on Page Thirty-Two Top Flight Handicap Brings Out Twelve Fillies and Mares Continued from Page One tomorrow, but she won so easily that the weight shift seems unimportant. Miss Grillo ran dismally in her first New York start after winning the Black Helen Handicap with 130 pounds on her back at Hialeah, then came back to finish third behind Risolater and Be Faithful in an over- night handicap here. The winner of the Argentine Derby trailed through the early stages of this race, then finished fast, but on the extreme outside, ducking to the inside in the final sixteenth. She lost as much ground by this devious course as the length and a half she was beaten. By her victories in the Black Helen and a track record performance at Saratoga, Miss Grillo has shown that her victory in the Argentine Derby, in which she narrowly defeated Rico Monte, was no fluke, and she must be respected tomorrow. Kent Millers pair of War Battle and Elkridge will be opposed by Thomas T. Motts Floating Isle, Brookmeade Stables Fleettown, Mrs. F. Ambrose Clarks Ray-lywn, and G. H. Bostwicks Army Power in the Meadow Brook. Most of the jumpers met in last weeks Corinthian Steeplechase, which was won by Boojum IE., with Raylywn finishing a length away and the same margin before War Battle, while Floating Isle was a remote fourth, and Fleettown lost his rider at the third fence when leading.
