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Trough Hill. Heads Meadow Brook Test Elkridge, Floating Isle Also Entered in Chase Stake at Belmont Today BELMONT PARK, Elmont, L. I., N. Y., June 8. — The last arid richest steeplechase stake of the Belmont Park spring meeting heads tomorrows program at the Hempstead Turnpike course. This is the 0,000 Meadow Brook Handicap at "about" two and a .half miles, which has attracted a field of 10 of the best leppers now in training. Mrs. Stephen C. Clark, Jr.s Trough Hill is topweight of the band with 151 pounds and will be coupled with Rokeby Stables American Way at 148. The entry will probably be favored in what shapes up as a wide-open race. Trough Hill won last weeks Corinthian Chase by a half-dozen lengths from Kent Millers veteran Elkridge, who turned in a courageous effort to save the place by a head from American Way. Elkridge has 147 to carry tomorrow, a favorable shift of six pounds in relation to Trough Hill and four with American Way. Elkridge, who is now 11, has figured prominently in several previous editions of the Meadow Brook, though it is one of the comparatively few chase stakes he has been unable to win. Back in 1942, he finished second to Invader. He was again second to Floating Isle in 1945 and third behind Adaptable and Canford last year. Floating Isle Carries 143 Floating Isle, who carries the Auburn Farm silks of Thomas T. Mott, is in tomorrows test with 143 and has won two of his three starts at this meeting. On May 10, he beat Rigan McKinneys Navigate, Dmitri Djordjadzes Point Bleu and four others, carrying level weight with his immediate followers. Tomorrow, he is again at levels with Navigate and receives three pounds from Point Bleu. Floating Isle then turned in a dull race in the Charles L. Appleton Chase, finishing fifth behind Navigate, Point Bleu, Galactic and Genancoke. The latter two are not in the Meadow Brook. On May 25, Floating Isle came back to trounce Genancoke and Galactic in another test at "about" two miles. The added distance of the Meadow Brook is all in favor of the Battleship gelding. Frank "Dooley" Adams will ride, as usual. Navigate and Point Bleu finished only a half-length apart in the Appleton, with the former outlasting his French rival. That was the most recent appearance for Navigate, but Point Bleu came out on May 31 and lost his French rider, Albert Foot, when Phiblant spilled Adams directly in front of him at the fourth fence. Point Bleu then became pinned under the rail, but apparently escaped injury. The others in the Meadow Brook are Auburn Farms Homogenize, 142; Rita Mar-zanis Delhi Dan, 135; Graham Grants Luan Casa, 148, and H. S. Horkheimers Rank, 135. The best of tomorrows flat races is the ,000 Dublin Purse, a test at a mile and a sixteenth, which will be the sixth offering. Eight have been named for this event, headed by Mrs. Rea Warners Make-Up Man at 119 pounds. Favoritism, however, will probably go almost equally to King Ranchs Safe Arrival, 115, and T. P. Morgans Thwarted, 112. Make-TJp Man was last seen in the Suburban, in which he finished eighth after being in contention for about six furlongs. Earlier in the current meeting, the Californian beat the discredited Doubtless n., Rose Beam, Concidence and others at tomorrows distance. Conn McCreary is slated to ride.
