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Fleettown Choice In Meadow Brook BrookWill Will Meet Kent Miller Pair Of War Battle and Elkrldge In Belmont Chase Feature FeatureBELMONT BELMONT PARK Elmont L I N Y June 9 The 15000 Meadow Brook Stee ¬ plechase Handicap at about two miles and a half is the feature of tomorrows Belmont Park program and for once the steeple ¬ chasers are not overshadowed by any of the flat runners on the card cardBrookmeade Brookmeade Stables Fleettown winner of two stakes and second in another at this meeting looms a solid choice with Danny Marzani in the saddle and 152 pounds to carry Fleettown has always had speed but until this season had a way of charging his jumps that often conflicted with the plans of his jockey resulting in an imme ¬ diate separation He has steadied consid ¬ erably erablyKent Kent Miller has again nominated his stars War Battle 160 and Elkridge 152 and it is possible if not quite probable that he will start both of them though riders have not yet been named The ami ¬ able ownertrainer has made a practice of entering both of these horses in almost every steeplechase stake at the Long Is ¬ land tracks for the past two seasons but has almost always started only one not always the lightweight of the pair Wai Battle and Elkridge have both been voted the steeplechaser of the year in previous seasons but neither has yet shown the dash they once had hadAdaptable Adaptable Improving ImprovingThe The others in the Meadow Brook are Miss Ella Wideners Grand National win 1 ner of 1947 Adaptable and Chance Bul ¬ let with 146 and 133 pounds respectively Auburn Stables Floating Isle 142 and Mrs Essie duPont Weirs Canford 142 142Adaptable Adaptable has been showing a gradual return to the brilliant form he displayed last autumn and will appreciate the added distance and the prospect of a soft track trackFloating Floating Isle is scheduled to be ridden toy Frank Dooley Adams who fell on his head here a few days ago suffering a pos ¬ sible concussion Adams asked to be al ¬ lowed to ride his fathers April Dip today and there was said to be some difference of opinion among the physicians before he was finally taken off the horse Floating Isle has run in spots in all his races this year but the longer distance of the Meadow Brook is in his favor favorThe The best of tomorrows flat races is the Devil Diver Handicap named for Greentree Stables brilliant and courageous handicap star of a few seasons back Greentree evi ¬ dently would like to win this event having named both Up Beat and Star Bout The former is said to wheeze by the dockers and is usually very nervous in the pad ¬ dock while Star Bout who was scratched from todays fifth race has pinned his ears back and refused to run in three of his four New York starts this year winning the other easily They will be opposed by Wheatley Stables speedy but fainthearted Grey Flight J H Skirvins classy but lightbodied Alfoxie and A G Vander ¬ bilts Newsweekly another fast one who doesnt care for the last furlong
