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Juvenile Stakes Attracts Seventeen Fort Salonga Has Won Four Straight StraightCounty County Clare Tribe Baloma And Dark Star in Belmonts Fixture Dating From 1874 1874BELMONT BELMONT PARK Elmont L I N Y May 6 The seventysixth running of the 10000 Juvenile Stakes is the feature at ¬ traction at beautiful Belmont tomorrow Seventeen juveniles of both sexes will dis ¬ pute the ancient fixutre which was in ¬ augurated at Jerome Park in 1874 moved to Morris Park in 1890 and has been pre ¬ sented here at Belmont Park since the track opened in 1905 The Juvenile will be run down five furlongs of the Widener straight course and has frequently been won by a good colt rarely by a great one Equipoise in 1930 is almost certainly the best on the lengthy bead roll rollS S P Stecklers Fort Salonga Vera S Braggs Tribe Cain Hoy Stables Dark Star and Clara L strikers Big Mark are the topweights with 122 pounds each while E H Lanes filly Baloma is level with them on the scale at 119 Victor in William Penn PennPort Port Salonga who is making his local debut is the likely choice tomorrow The son of Mahmoud Fortify beat five of those he faces tomorrow in the recent William Penn Stakes at Garden State Park whipped the Florida champion Wise Scholar in a Laurel overnighter and also scored in two other dashes in Maryland Sam Boulmetis who came up to win a division of the Swift Stakes 6n Charlie McAdam yesterday will be back for another stake with Fort Salonga SalongaTribe Tribe finished second to Fort Salonga in the William Penn and will again be rid ¬ den by Oyie Scurlock who said after the Garden State race that he was beaten by a better colt on that afternoon at least Tribe had earlier finished second to Native Dancer in the Youthful at Jamaica Native Dancer is an absentee from the Juvenile A G Vanderbilt depending on Social Out ¬ cast who finished far behind Tribe in an overnight race at Jamaica Big Mark Joe W Browns Mr Midnight G D Wideners Scent and Louis Primas The Preem were unplaced in the William Penn Mr Midnight who also finished be ¬ hind Tribe in two other races will be coupled with C O Dorsett a winner in New Orleans but unplaced in his only local outing Won Stake at Hialeah Dark Star won his two starts in Hia ¬ leah the most recent being a division of the Hialeah Juvenile Wise Scholar who won the other half of that stake in slower time beat Fort Salonga who turned the tables afr Laurel Ray York is slated to ride the Cain Hoy Stable colt a highly re ¬ garded son of the Australian Royal Gem IT ITThe The filly Baloma set a track record for a quarter mile at New Orleans in Her first outing and equaled it in her next The daughter of Depth Charge from the thor ¬ oughbred quarter horse Woven Web fin ¬ ished last in the Lafayette at Keeneland but is said to have shipped badly s The others in the Juvenile who all carry 117 pounds are Brookmede Stables County Claire W B MacDonald Jrs Count Trim Mill River Stables Malahide Berniill Farms Knobbilly North Hill StabVs Laeternal Eugene Constantih Jrs Royal Bay Gem and C B Bonns Gomout GomoutCounty County Clare a son of Shannon n was favored for his first outing at Belmont and beat 20 rivals with considerable authority Ted Atkinson will again ride the highly regarded youngster who had drawn the outside post position otherwise known as Atkinson Boulevard He will probably be almost equal favorite with Fort Salonga tomorrow tomorrowCount Count Trim won his last start at Jamaica in a common gallop with Comout far up the track Malahide ran a fair race in the Youthful and was a winner in California Laeternal made his debut in the dash won by County Clare and had speed for almost half a mile tiring as though in need of seasoning
