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ExpectToboggan Line-Up ToNumber Dozen or More Three Topweights Not Likely to Start in Mondays Belmont Dash JAMAICA, L. I., N. Y., May 10.— While the three topweights in the 0,000 Toboggan Handicap, traditional opening day fixture of the Belmont Park meeting, are expected to pass up that engagement on Monday, a nimble field of at least a dozen are expected to charge down six furlongs of the Widener straightaway. Mrs. Andy Schuttingers Ferd, who is topweight with 126 pounds, has been successfully "stretched out," setting a Garden State Park track record for a mile and a sixteenth last week and it is not thought likely that he will be immediately returned to sprints. Addison Stables Arise and Brookmeade Stables Greek Ship are next in line with 125. The former is on the sidelines, while Greek Ship is expected to go postward in the 0,000 Gallant Fox Handicap at Jamaica on Saturday. F. Ambrose Clarks Tea-Maker, who was disqualified after winning a sprint at Jamaica on Monday, will probably be the starting topweight at 123 pounds, followed by Mrs. Louise Lazares Sheilas Reward who has a pound less. Sheilas Reward raced well in the same race in which Tea-Maker was disqualified. The next four in the weights, J. C. Bradys Casemate, Mrs. Jim Burkes Magic Words, C. V. Whitneys Mount Marcy and Spring Hill Stables Nell K. are also likely candidates. Casemate, who has 119, finished second to Ferd in the Paumonok on opening day of the New York season, then lost all chance when carried wide and solidly bumped by Singing Step in his next start, which was won by Magic Words. Magic Words has 118 in the Toboggan and was the principal victim when Tea-Maker bore in at the head of the stretch on Monday. Mount Marcy, 116, is the least likely of the higher weights, but is always a possibility. Plans for this veteran are always tentative. Last winter, for instance, he was sent to New Orleans to compete in the handicap of that name, which he won, but a plane was reserved to fly him back to compete in the Widener at Hialeah and the final decision as to which race he would start in was not made until the evening before they were run. Nell K., 113, bore out badly in the Firenze Handicap here, accomplishing the defeat of the favored Next Move. She is more at home at the Toboggan distance. Incidentally she is the only one of the eligibles who has finished in the money in earlier runnings of the stake. Last year. Nell K. finished third behind Piet and Olympia. Other likely candidates are Woolford Farms Delegate, 111, who has been training sensationally; Llangollen Farms Singing Step, also 111; Belair Studs Hyphasis, 110: Mrs. Jan Burkes Squared Away, 108, and King Ranchs Black Douglas, 106. It was on this course that Black Douglas set a world record in his first start last year, a race he has not been able to confirm.
