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Metropolitan Next Big Belmont Stake StakeExpect Expect Spartan Valor to Get Top Impost But Battlefield To Be Starting Highweight HighweightBELMONT BELMONT PARK Elmont L I N Y May 10 Four stakes are on the agenda for the coming week at Belmont Park climaxed by Saturdays fiftyninth edition of the 30000 Metropolitan Handicap at one mile Weights for this fixture are due on Monday and the top impost will doubt ¬ less go to William Helis Jrs sensational Spartan Valor but the starting topweight will probably be George D Wideners Bat ¬ tlefield who returned to action with a fine though beaten race this week weekOn On Wednesday juvenile fillies meet in the fivefurlong National Stallion on the Widener straightaway Countess Jane win ¬ ner of a division of the Rosedale and the Fashion is not eligible for this dash but it is expected to attract such nimble misses as Herman B Delmans Judy Dunstan A G Vanderbilts Kitchen Maid and pos ¬ sibly Calumet Farms Bubbley winner of the Debutante Stakes at Churchill Downs on Derby Day and who is now at Pimlico with nothing to do doThe The other two stakes are for jumpers A dozen have been named for Mondays Belmo t National Maiden Hurdle a 5000 test at about a mile and threequarters This is one of three races for hurdlers who were maidens at the time they closed on March 10 The other two will be offered at Aqueduct and Saratoga The Belmont Spring Maiden Steeplechase also 5000 added will be offered on Thursday at about two miles This is also one of a series the other two events being at Aqueduct and Delaware Park ParkBusanda Busanda Goes in Tangled Handicap HandicapMondays Mondays program at the Hempstead Turnpike course also includes the 7500 Tangled Handicap an overnight event for fillies and mares at a mile and a sixteenth with a field of five headed by Ogden Phipps 1951 Suburban winner Busanda with 122 pounds She will be opposed by Joe W Browns hardhitting Thelma Berger and King Ranchs Renew 120 each Max Glucks Blue Moon 112 and Green tree Stables Toto 111 111Busanda Busanda will be making her seasonal debut and in the past has always needed a race or two before showing her best form The others in the Tangled all met in the Firenze Handicap at Jamaica Rac ¬ ing secretary Jack Campbell has sharply revised his estimate of these mares since that mile and a furlong which was run on April 21 Thelma Berger who finished second to Next Move picks up an addi ¬ tional 10 pounds Toto who was a re ¬ spectable fourth adds five Renew who was a disappointing sixth adds one pound while Blue Moon who finished four lengths farther back in seventh place carries the same impost of 112 112Thelma Thelma Berger a stake winner last year both on Long Island and at New Orleans ran a good race in the Firenze despite be ¬ ing forced wide Renew had won the Minerva Handicap in her previous start with Toto third and Blue Moon up the track trackSeveral Several of the candidates in the hurdle stake met here in the Mercator Purse on May 5 They are in the order in which they finished M A Rumseys Mantle 1 Sanford Stud Farms Joseph Brant 2 E B Schleys Golden Boy H 5 W C MacMillen Jrs Le Faune 6 James F McHughs Reduce 7 Brookmeade Sta ¬ bles Stradivarius 8 and Mrs M G Walshs Sunset Dell 10 10Mantle Mantle who will again be ridden by W Gallaher scored by a length and a half over Joseph Brant and is penalized only one pound The others were beaten off though Stradivarius had speed for a mile mileMrs Mrs Henry Obres Coup de Vite W F Wickes Jrs Bronze Wing finished fourth and eleventh respectively in a race won by Clive of India on opening day here Coup de Vite who will be ridden by Evan Jackson finished with a belated rush and may improve improveThe The others in the National Maiden Hurdle are making their local debuts They are Rokeby Stables Chanty Man Mrs W C Wrights Hadapast and Daniel Saints Byng ByngMantle Mantle and Reduce run as an entry while Golden Boy n and Le Faune will also be coupled
