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Foxcatcher Farm, King Ranch Horses Work Out Over Belmont Park Course • ! i 1 • : i I i I i ■ ! . ■ - i 1 s i Assault, Manyunk, Gaffery, 1 Rose Beam and Curandero in Moves at Westchester Oval BELMONT PARK, Elmont, L. I., N. Y., May 5. — A trio of stakes candidates who carry William duPonts Foxcatcher Farm silks and two of King Ranchs aces occupied the attention of work-watchers at Belmont Park this lovely spring morning. The Foxcatcher trio, who recently arrived from the West Coast where they campaigned profitably during the winter, are Rose Beam, Manyunk and Gaffery, who have different stakes engagements at the impending Belmont meeting and who worked at different distances this morning. Rose Beam, a four-year-old son of Blenheim n., who finished second to Ace Admiral in the rich Maturity Stakes at Santa Anita and was third to Miss Grillo and Dinner Gong in the San Juan Capistrano, went a handy three furlongs in :36 on the main track. Rose Beams only stake opportunity here is in the 0,000 Suburban to be run at a mile and a quarter on Memorial Day. Manyunk, a black four-year-old by Unbreakable who has never quite raced to expectations, went seven furlongs in 1:28% in handy style. His only stake engagement here is in the 5,000 Metropolitan Mile, to be run on Saturday, May 14. His best races at Santa Anita were a third in a seven-furlong stake and a victory in a class B handicap. The real star of the Foxcatcher entourage is the filly, Gaffery, a trim little daughter of Fairy Manhurst — Galtown who won the Schuylerville and Selima Stakes last year and drew many votes as runner-up to Myrtle Charm for juvenile filly honors last year. During the winter she won the rich Santa Margarita from a big field at Santa Anita. Gaffery is engaged in the Acorn, Coaching Club American Oaks and Top Flight Handicap. She showed that she will, barring accidents, be ready for the Acorn on Wednesday, May 11, by breezing a half in :49 this morning. Max Hirsch sent King Ranchs cham- pion, Assault, a half in :52% this morning. The six-year-old never looked better as he was hardly doing more than an open gal- lop. While he has no stakes engagements here, his astute trainer says that he ex-. pects to send Assault postward in one or two overnight races late in the meeting as the first steps in his comeback. Hirsch also sent Curandero a startling seven furlongs in 1:25 Vs. galloping out an additional eighth in 1:40. Though a dis-1 appointment in his Jamaica races, where the long-striding colt may not have found the track to his liking, Curandero is en- gaged in Saturdays Swift Stakes at seven furlongs, as well as the Withers Mile, Peter Pan Handicap and Belmont Stakes. His fractions this morning were :34y5, :46%, :592/5 and 1:12ft, working alone. It should come as no surprise if the son of Brazado shows vast improvement when racing here at Belmont.
