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** k / « of B tl n „ ™ U U, a1 at " tl in in s fo for wi Several Trials Recorded At Jamaica and Belmont Renew Works One Mile in 1:38 H In Prep for Firenze Handicap JAMAICA, L. I., N Y., May 3.— A host the better grade horses quartered at Belmont Park went through speed trials this morning. Some of the top flight campaigners are readying themselves for engagements at this track and the others are receiving serious preps for the approaching meeting at the Belmont course. Renew, from the King Ranch barn, extended herself over the one mile distance Belmont Park, getting the tightener over the main strip. A recent victress at this oval, Renew s next tentative outing is the Firenze Handicap here on the weekend. She was timed the mile in 1:38. Gaffery, Foxcatcher Farms candidate top honors in the Firenze Handicap, which attracted 31 nominees and is a 0,000 added event for fillies and mares, was tried at six furlongs and came to the end in 1:1525. Two highly regarded sophomore fillies. Mission and Poppaea, stepped along over the main track in smart time. Mission, owned by King Ranch, was clocked in :5945 while Mrs. G. D. Wideners Poppaea required a full second more to negotiate the five panels. Chivalrous, who became the property of Harry LaMontagne for 0,500 as a yearling, bounded along three furlongs in :3525. indicating that he would earn his initial portion of a purse in the near future. The three-year-old son of Blenheim II— On the Level failed to make the races as a juvenile and in three starts at the current meeting, saw a lot of tails waving in front of him. Activity was brisk also at the adjoining mile training track at Belmont Park during the early hours. George D. Wideners Lights Up was timed a handy half mile In :50 and More Sun, owned by Brookemeade Stable, went the same distance in :51%, just breezing alone.
