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Spartan Valor Honored With 134-Pound Impost • Unlikely to Accept Metropolitan Assignment; Battlefield Gets 125 BELMONT PARK, Elmont, L. I., N. Y., May 13. — Racing secretary-handicapper Jack Campbell has honored William Helis, Jr.s Spartan Valor with top weight of 134 pounds in Saturdays 0,000 Metropolitan Handicap. The son of Attention just won his seventh straight in setting a track rec- • ord at Garden State Park on Saturday. It is not known if he will accept the impost in the mile event. The highest weight carried by a "Met" winner was Devil Divers 134 in 1944. George D. Wideners Battlefield, who returned to action last week, is the likely starting topweight in the Metropolitan, with 125 pounds, most of which probably will be Ovie Scurlock. Battlefield finished a close second to the surprising First Glance in a very fast six furlongs for his first race of the year, and has been a leader of his division the past two seasons. Addison Stables Arise, who is to make his 1952 debut tomorrow, is next in the Metropolitan weights with 123 pounds. He is expected to pass up the week-end fixture in favor of the six-furlong Roseben Handicap later in the meeting. Brookmeade Stables Greek Ship, a steady handicapper,. is next in line with 121 pounds, two more than has been assigned Mrs. John Payson Adams Miche, winner on a disqualification of the Santa Anita Handicap. Mill River Stables English star, Big Dipper IX, who has yet to make his American debut, but is training well after a siege of bucked shins, has 118 pounds, the same burden assigned C. T. Chenerys Bryan G. Charfran Stables Crafty Admiral like Spartan Valor, a revelation of the Florida season, but beaten by the surprising Dark Peter in the Toboggan, is in with 117. Crafty Admiral ran a fever on the eve of his scheduled encounter with Spartan Valor on Saturday. The last time they were to meet, in jJbe Gulfstream Handicap, the Helis star had an attack of colic. Crafty Admiral won that race. A third Florida revelation, Palatine Stables Wood-chuck, has also been given 117 pounds. Complete weights follow: Horse. Wt. Horse. , Wt. Spartan Valor 134 Ken 107 Battlefield 125 Repetoire 107 Arise 123 Longleat 106 GreekShip 121 Primate 106 Miche 119 Valquest 106 Big Dipper n. 118 Arcave 105 Bryan G. . 118 Sonic 105 Crafty Admiral 117 Tripoli 105 Woodchuck 117 Uncle Edgar 105 Sir Ronald II. 116 Donor 104 Tuscany 116 High Dive 104 Light Broom 114 Knowitall 104 Auditing 113 Nullify 104 Be Fleet 113 Prop 103 Next Move 113 Colony Date 102 One Hitter 113 Earmarked 102 Count Turf 112 Royal Moccasin 102 Mameluke 112 Assignment 100 Delegate .110 King Clover 100 . First Glance 110 Long Bow 100 Jumbo 110 Congo King 98 Squared Away 110 Hitex 97 Yildiz" . 110 Dutch Lane 96 Eatontown 107 High Scud 94 Hull Down 107 Maryland Day 92 " Declared: Battle Morn, Bed o Roses, Hall of Fame, More Sun, Sun Glow.
