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Al lies Pal, Paddleduck and4 Miss Request Head Line-Up; Five in Spring Maiden Chase BELMONT PARK, Elmont, L. I., N. Y., May 25. — The High Fleet Classified Handicap for fillies and mares over the mile distance, and the Belmont Spring Maiden Steeplechase are the redeeming offerings of an otherwise run-of-the-mill program at the Nassau County track tomorrow. The fencing test is the third race and carries an endowment of ,000, while some fashionable misses are named for the mile xun, the sixth on the card. This test carries a similar purse value. Five were named for the steeplechase offering while seven are in the High Fleet. The latter race ranks the best in the estimation of overnight students. Miss Request is top weight in the High Fleet and she has 122 pounds as her burden. Allies Pal and Paddleduck are to carry 116 while My Emma has 112 as her burden. Back Talk is next with 111, while Alfoxie and Gay Mood, who round out the field, are to carry 109 and 104, respectively. The High Fleet can be looked upon as a trial for the Top Flight Handicap, which is to be contested on June 8 over the mile and one-sixteenth distance. With the exception of Back Talk, who races for Edward Dibe, the Puerto Rican, all are eligible for the richer stake offering to be decided later. A comparative line on the merits of some of the overnight candidates can be learned from a race at six furlongs a week back. In that test, Paddleduck, Allies Pal and Alfoxie measured strides with the Green-tree starter prevailing by one-half length.! In that race she carried 112 pounds as against 116 on Allies Pal, while Alfoxie, who finished fourth, had 111. Tomorrow, Seven Fillies Slated to Match Speed In High Fleet Handicap at Belmont Paddleduck, over the. longer route, will pick up four, Allies Pal will carry the same, while Alfoxie drops two. Earlier in the season at Jamaica over the mile and one-sixteenth distance, Allies Pal, with 111, finished second to But Why Not, whipping both Paddleduck and Miss Request. The latter has not faced the starter sinpe that test in which she was outrun throughout. Earlier in this meeting, My Emma sped one mile to beat Back Talk in handy fashion. My Emma was in receipt of seven pounds that afternoon, but tomorrow the Belair starter is asked to concede the non-eligible for either stake offering one pound. The steeplechase offering is the tenth running of the stake and 39 non-winners at the time of closing April 15 were made eligible. This is the second section of the tri-parte race which is contested, first at Pimlico, as the Pimlico Spring Maiden, with the final running at Delaware Park later. Of the five named to race over the two miles and 12 jumps, Lock and Key is the top weight with 156 pounds. Polichi-nela n., the South American, looms the favored one here. A 17-pound weight shift in his favor from a meeting with Lock and Key, in which he finished second to the Crispin Oglebay starter, will balance the scales in his favor. ► — — JOCKEY S. BROOKS— Was astride the first three winners on yesterdays Belmont Park program.
