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Dominion Dominion Drives Drives to to Fore Fore in in Hindoo; Hindoo; Count Count Turf Turf Certain Certain Belmont Belmont Starter Starter Rutchick Says Colt Is Going Saturday ReportsThat Derby Winner Will Miss Stake Dispelled; Scheduled to Work Thursday By BOB HOBWOOD Staff Correspondent BELMONT PARK, Elmont, L. I., N. Y., June 11. — "Count Turf is definitely a starter in the Belmont Stakes," trainer Sol Rutchick said this morning. Rumors that all was not well with Jack Amiels Kentucky Derby winner have circulated the past few days. "The colt seemed to be a little sore;" Rutchick said, "but I think it was because he had been plated with shoes that were a little too tight. We pulled the shoes off and took him back to Jamaica", where he will breeze six furlongs on Thursday morning." The present extremity fast Belmont strip has made the feet of other horses sting this year, without actually breaking them down. Rutchick pointed out that Count Turf had been in training since early in the winter, had had a hard race on Tuesday and had only missed a work or two when afflicted with the cough soon after his return from Kentucky. "I expect him to be ready," Rutchick concluded. Count Truf showed himself to be a thoroughly fit animal when he came from some 14 lengths behind the pace, five lengths behind the. leader at the furlong pole, to win the Polynesian Purse at a mile and a sixteenth on Tuesday Count Truf stepped the final eighth of that race in approximately :11. Three Listed as Possibilities At this writing, four colts appear certain to go postward against Count Turf in the classic mile and a half one this week-end, with two other colts and a filly being possibilities for the third tier of the "Triple Crown." C. V. Whitneys Counterpoint earned a chance to go postward in the Belmont when he clipped two-fifths of a second from the local mile and a furlong mark in the Peter Continued on Page Thirty-Nine Count Turf Regarded Certain Belmont Starter Soreness Traced to Tight Plates; Scheduled to Work on Thursday Continued from Page One Pan Handicap on Saturday, in which he beat George D. Wideners Battlefield almost three lengths, receiving nine pounds. They will meet at level weights in the longer race. Reuben Kowalls Pur Sang and Sam E. Wilson, Jr.s, Royal Mustang are certain starters in the Belmont, if only because they shipped in from Chicago for this engagement. The possibilities for the Belmont are Cain Hoy Stables Battle Morn, Greentree Stables Big Stretch, and Herman Delmans filly, How. Battle Morn finished a soundly beaten fourth in the Peter. Pan, but was running right with Battlefield until he reverted to an old habit and bore out at the head of the stretch. Incidentally, this colt has been ridden by Ted Atkinson in all of his good races this year, including victories at Hialeah and over the Belmont strip and the Canadian-born veteran appears to fit him particularly well. In the event that Big Stretch, who passed beaten horses in the quarter mile between the three-furlong and eighth poles, stayes in the barn, "The Slasher" may be seen on the Blenheim n. colt. How is a doubtful quantity. Trainer Horatio Luro will not definitely count the Princequillo filly, winner of the Kentucky and Coaching Club American Oaks, out of the rich stake, but is well aware of the magnitude of the task confronting the rather undersize filly. On the other hand, her only stake engagements, aside from the Belmont, are in handicaps for those of her own sex in which she is almost certain to receive prohibitive imposts from J,he racing secretaries. Though they would have very much liked to win the Peter Pan with Battlefield, Wiuener and trainer Bert Mulholland were not too disappoitned by Battlefields defeat oa Saturday. Incidentally, Widener said before the race that the War Relic colt had been somewhat upset by visitors to the barn on Friday and it was noted that his name was not done up in braids for the Peter Pan, possibly with a view to not disturbing him any more than necessary. Battlefields admirers may gain some en-douragemenfc by recalling that Capofcj . r . stopped badly in the Peter Pan two years ago, then came on to beat the winner of that race, Ponder, in the Belmont. Though Battlefield didnt attempt to stay as close to a murderous early pace as Capot did, he also finished considerably better than the Greentree colt. Later in the day it was learned from Preston Burch that Brookmeade Stables Steadfast, winner of the Jersey Handicap, would start in the Belmont, filling in for the Preakness winner, Bolt, who belatedly bucked his shins in the Polynesian Purse. Trainer Syl Veitch also indicated that he may saddle Mameluke, as well as Counterpoint for C. V. Whitney. Mameluke won a division of the Blue Grass Stakes,, then ran a dismal race in the Derby, after which he ran a fever, but has been training rather well.
