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New York Scene Shifts to Belmont Card TwentyOne Stakes For TwentyFive Day Meet MeetFifteen Fifteen Accept Weights in Toboggan Handicap Opening Feature With Rippey Shouldering Top Impost of 129 Helis Speedster Faces Buzfuz Beaugay Donor Up Beat BeatBELMONT BELMONT PARK Elmont L I N Y May 15 Beautiful Belmont opens the most brilliant phase of the Metropolitan racing season Mon ¬ day wearing a blend of the new look and its traditional splendor The new look consists of two water pools patterned after the fountain ponds in the Truilleries Gardens of Paris France which have been installed in the clubhouse parking area and the original bronze cast of Herbert Hazletines statue of Man o War who presides over the walking ring in the paddock There will be 15 stakes for the flat runners and another halfdozen for the hurdlers and steeplechasers offered during the impend ¬ ing 25day session ending Monday June 14 and the array of fixtures has attracted the nominations of virtually all of the thoroughbred stars of every di ¬ vision Horsemen who have been racing in Maryland and New Jersey during the Jamaica meeting have converged on the Westchester Racing Association track in recent days and fields promise to be re ¬ dundant in the weeks to come comeGives Gives Eight Pounds to Buzfuz The 25000 Toboggan which will have its fiftyfifth running on Monday has at ¬ tracted 15 of the speediest sprinters who will charge down the six furlongs of the Widener Course William Helis Rippey heads this dash at 129 pounds and was never better He is asked to give eight pounds to Mose Rauzins Buzfuz who won last years Toboggan under a similiar 121 but has showed signs of age in recent starts Major stakes engagements have brought about a marked change in the past the Zacaweista gelding being one who rises to the occasion in rather startling fashion fashionMaine Maine Chance Enters Trio TrioThere There are three sets of entries among the 13 opposing Rippey and Buzzy Maine Chance Farm has named the nimble mare Beaugay the speedy threeyearold Royal Blood and the promising Jet Black who has yet to be beaten though starting only twice against rather modest company Beaugay has 117 to carry down the straightaway where she covered herself with glory in 1945 while Royal Blood gets in with as little over 110 pounds as Doug Dodson can make and Jet Black has the feather of 106 106Greentree Greentree Stable has named the three yearold Up Beat 112 and the rascally fouryearoldt Blue Border at 104 Blue Border has the speed to win any race he cares to but never seems to care G P Maje Odom is saddling Donor for Deer ing Howe and Pipette for J Barry Ryan Jr Donor who has raced dully this sea ¬ son has 114 to carry while Pipette who is fast but fainthearted carries 105 105The The others in the Toboggan are C T Chenerys recent winner Mangohick and Sidney S Schuppers Miss Disco 114 each Mrs John Hertz Owners Choice and Brookmeade Stables Inseparable 110 apiece A J Sacketts Gasparilla 108 and Hal Price Headleys Plumper 106 106Mangohick Mangohick Recent Jamaica Winner WinnerMangohick Mangohick rather amazed by coming from behind to beat Miss Disco recently at Jamaica when that filly didnt seem to have her mind on her work in the stretch She won the Interboroiigh in her previous start Owners Choice has been training cleverly on the Widener course where Gas ¬ parilla raced well last year This long striding hreeyearold is favored by a straight course having difficulty negoti ¬ ating turns Inseparable one of the bet ¬ ter juveniles last year was gelded during the winter which is believed to have helped his disposition Like Blue Border the Un ¬ breakable gelding has always been his own worst enemy enemyThe The Belmont meeting is a succession of highlights the most brilliant of which are the 25000 Metropolitan Handicap at one mile on the first Saturday the Withers for threeyearolds with the same value and at the same distance on Saturday May 29 the 50000 Suburban Handicap at a mile and a quarter on Monday May 31 the 50000 Coaching Club American Oaks for threeyearold fillies at a mile and three furlongs on the following Wednesday and the 100000 Belmont Stakes at a mile and a half on June 12 the final Saturday of the meeting
