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Whirling Fox Back in Action Today Withers Hopefuls Vie in Troubadour TroubadourKilroy Kilroy Meets Black Majesty Quarter Pole King Rhymer Grandpere and Royal Blood BloodBELMONT BELMONT PARK Elmont L I N Y May 22 Threeyearolds of both sexes Calumet Farm and otherwise move back into the spotlight at Belmont Park next week Americas equivalents of the 1000 and 2000 guineas the 15000 Acorn Stakes nd the 25000 Withers both at one mile are the chief stakes offering of the week with the 10000 Juvenile also adorning the Saturday card The Acorn is for fillies a division that appears to be decidedly the weakest of the past several seasons and will have its eighteenth running on Tuesday TuesdayThe The Withers which is for both sexes with geldings barred is expected to bring put Calumet Farms Coaltown while Citation Is to run in the Jersey Stakes at Garden State Park the same afternoon according to trainer H A Jimmy Jones Coaltown is considered better suited by the mile dis ¬ tance of the Withersthough he is also bet ¬ ter placed in the weights for the Camden stake stakeOne One of the most interesting of the dwin ¬ dling opposition to the Warren Wright threeyearolds is slated to appear under silks on Monday This is Belair Studs Whirling Fox who has been entered in the maiden event at a mile and a sixteenth that Is seventh on the program programWhirling Whirling Fox has started only once this season suffering an obscure injury but has trained brilliantly since then and dockers believe that he is a considerably better colt now than when he succumbed to Ace Ad ¬ miral early in the Jamaica meeting Last year he finished second to the phenomenal but illfated Relic in the Hopeful at Sara ¬ toga and was closest to Citation at the end of the Belmont Futurity The son of Whirl away Marguery is an oldfashioned Eng ¬ lishtype colt who looks like something out of a sporting print of the last century Though he is still a maiden he appears to be one of the two remaining colts who can be given a slight chance of at least seriously extending Citation in the Belmont Stakes on June 12 12Has Has Designs on Peter Pan PanIf If Whirling Fox succeeds in beating his 10 rivals Monday none of whom appear bet ¬ ter than potentially useful class C horses he will be given a more serious test in the Peter Pan Handicap at a mile and a fur ¬ long on Saturday June 5 in which he wilj have to meet C V Whitneys Vulcans Forge runnerup to Citation in the Preak ness If he gets that job done Whirling Fox will be sent postward in the Belmont Stakes He is not a Withers candidate ac ¬ cording to trainer James Fitzsimmons FitzsimmonsThe The only other stakes colt of any serious pretensions in the East who has not already been soundly trounced by Citation and Coaltown is Greentree Stables Kilroy who will go postward in the Withers and is en ¬ gaged in the six furlongs Troubador Handi ¬ cap on Monday Kilroy a lightbodied son of War Relic won his first two starts this year in impressive style then failed miser ¬ ably in the Wood Memorial He had pre ¬ ceded that race by a series of gruelling trials that apparently took too much out of him Kilroy has been freshened in recent weeks and has been showing fully as much speed in his trials as Coaltown CoaltownKilroys Kilroys test on Monday is much more severe than that faced by Whirling Fox as he has to meet such seasoned three yearolds as C V Whitneys Black Maj ¬ esty and Quarter Pole Mrs John Payson Clarks Grandpere Mrs Rea Warners King Rhymer and his roguish stablemate Up Beat Black Majesty was a clever win ¬ ner at this young meeting while Grand ¬ pere raced fairly well in the Derby for which he was about half fit and King Rhymer has several good California races to his credit creditVictories Victories by Whirling Fox and Kilroy would add considerably to the interest of Saturdays Withers while should they dis ¬ appoint the weekend fixture looms a mere parade for the devils red silks of Calumet Farm Grandpere Black Majesty Quar ¬ ter Pole King Rhymer Up Beat as well as Maine Chance Farms Royal Blood will be getting their last chance to justify their going postward in the Withers in this sprint sprintThe The nominal feature of Mondays pro gram is the Belmont Spring Maiden Stee ¬ plechase but this test for young jumpers Js completely overshadowed by the three yearold test Darjeeling heads a field of 13 under 168 pounds
