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4 f * COLD COMMAND— The C. V. Whitney colt returns to action following his effort in the Kentucky Derby in todays Hampden Purse at Belmont Park. 4 f Variety Is Keynote At Belmont Today Spring Maiden Steeplechase And Two Good Features Over Main Course Are Scheduled BELMONT PARK, Elmont, L. I., N. Y., May 14. — Variety is the keynote of tomorrows racing program at beautiful Belmont, with three ,000 events as the features. The younger crop of jumpers meet in the Beln ont Spring Maiden Steeplechase at about two miles, an event which is also offered at Aqueduct and Delaware Park and is for non-winners over brush up to March 10, 1952. This will be the fifth race and is bracketed by the Kathleen Purse for fillies and mares at six furlongs on the main course, and the Hampden Purse for sophomores at a mile and a sixteenth. Ten have been named for the Spring Maiden Chase and five of them met in the Cottesmore Chase here last week. Mrs. Esther duPont Weirs Golden Furlong, who will be coupled with Master Mariner, won that race from J. M. Schiffs Montadet and E. B. Schleys Fracas, who will run as an entry. Mrs. H. K. Hickeys Ocean Front was eased up at the end of the Cottesmore when a couple of horses fell in front of him at the final fence, while C. Mahlon Klines Spleen collided with a rival and fell at that obstacle. The Weir entry looms the probable choice as Master Mariner, who will be ridden by Pat Smithwick, was an easy winner of liis last outing and beat most of the others in tomorrows field, as well as his running mate, Golden Furlong, who finished third. Rigan McKinneys Cicas, the odds-on choice in that race, finished second and has only a two-pound shift in weights for seven lengths. Montadet and Spleen were up the track at the end of the race. C. Burtons Hunting Fox finished a respectable fourth and drops four pounds. Montadet-Fracas Entry Dangerous The other Spring Maiden candidates are F. Ambrose Clarks Acefull, who is making his local debut over brush, and Morris Dixon, Sr.s Call Me George, who will be coupled with Spleen. , The entry of Montadet and Fracas may be very dangerous. These French importations, who are trained by Oleg Dubassoff , will be ridden by Bob McDonald and Albert Foot, respectively. Eight have been entered in the Hampden Purse, including a few posibilities for the Peter Pan Handicap and Belmont Stakes. C. V. Whitneys Cold Command, who finished far back in the Kentucky Derby, but was a fast-finishing second to Gushing Oil in the Blue Grass Stakes-and beat Hill Gail in a seven-furlong test at Keeneland, gets in here with 114 pounds. Fred W. Hoopers Olympic, who ranked third in the English Free Handicap and made a highly creditable American debut behind Jet Master on Saturday, is also in here with 114. The invader appears much better suited by a distance than by the six furlongs of his only local start. The others with engagements in both the Peter Pan and Belmont Stakes are Hal Price Headleys Cajun, 119, and Joseph M. Roeblings Old Ironsides, 114. Six have been named for the Kathleen Purse, including the Woodvale Farm entry of Boot All and Marta, who will probably be short-priced favorites. Boot All, a stakes winner at Hialeah,. won her last at Jamaica by half a dozen lengths, while Marta has many fine races to her credit in top company.
