Eight Class C Horses In Duntreath Handicap: Perfect Bahram to Meet Rocket Bomb and Grillette at Belmont, Daily Racing Form, 1948-06-01

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Eight Class C Horses In Duntreath Handicap HandicapPerfect Perfect Bahram to Meet Rocket Bomb and Grillette at Belmont BelmontBELMONT BELMONT PARK Elmont L I N Y May 31 The Duntreath Handicap at a mile and a quarter heads tomorrows post holiday program at Belmont Park with eight Class C stayers named for the test Maine Chance Farms Perfect Bahram who hasnt been asked to go such a route since the Kentucky Derby of 1946 in which he finished far back is top weight with 122 pounds poundsThe The opposition consists of Tteerhead Sta ¬ bles Rocket Bomb 119 Abram S JSewitts Grillette 118 Belair Studs Catana 115 E P Sixers Reckon 111 Mrs Ethel D Jacobs Saint Lye 110 Mrs Axel Wich fields Cable 109 and Auburn Farms Peb along 108 The latter spends a good part of his time jumping but has occasionally won on the flat particularly on off tracks tracksPerfect Perfect Bahram may have the speed to take the track from the kind he meets here as he held on well at a mile and a sixteenth against Vertigo n at a mile and a sixteenth the last time he was asked to go a distance at Jamaica only succumbing by a nose after leading into the stretch He subse ¬ quently failed in a sevenfurlong test here at Belmont BelmontSaint Saint Lye a French horse who has been running in clalmers but has won three races this spring beat 1000012000 horses at a mile and a half here last week Cable who has more class than courage finished fourth behind Trilby at a mile and a furlong last week with Grillette and Rocket Bomb also before him at the wire He ran a little in the stretch but never menaced either of the pair he meets to ¬ morrow morrowGrillette Grillette was beaten only a head by Tril ¬ by in that race while Rocket Bomb finished more than a length behind her Catana finished third to Red Shoes arM Demure in her last start at a mile and a sixteenth and is expected to appreciate the longer journey tomorrow Reckon has showed nothing creditable since last November


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