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Renew Belmont Stakes on Saturday t Blue Man to Rule Staunch Favorite Sub Fleet and Ten Others Likely to Face Preakness Winner in Route Classic BELMONT PARK, Elmont, L. I., N. Y., May 31.— The eighty-fourth running of the 00,000 Belmont Stakes next Saturday is the major event of the coming racing week, and in, some respects the main event of the racing year in the United States. This classic mile and a half for three-year-olds, with geldings barred, is the third tier in the "Triple Crown," climaxing the great trio of sophomore fixtures, the first two of which are the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness, and more often than not points out the thoroughbred champion of the year. Since 1941, Whirlaway, Count Fleet, Assault, Citation, Capot and Counterpoint, six of the last 11, went on from Belmont Stakes victories to be voted Horse of the Year. Saturdays Belmont is expected to attract a field of about 12, headed by White Oak Stables Preakness winner, Blue Man, who looms a short-priced favorite on the strength of his stretch-running triumphs in the Flamingo, Experimental No. 2 and Preakness, and his fast-finishing third in the Kentucky Derby, which was run over a hard track that the Blue Swords colt disliked. Several of Blue Mans potential rivals are racing at Belmont Park today. Dixianas Sub Fleet, who led him several lengths in the Derby, then finished as far behind him in the Preakness, is in the fifth event, while his arch rival. Myhelyn Stables Master Fiddle, is in the Peter Pan, along with Cain Hoy Stables Armageddon, Fred W. Hoopers Olympic, Montpeliers Pintor, Hal Price Headleys Cajun and Apheim Stables Quiet Step. May Point Out Potential Champion It is quite likely that a colt will emerge from the Peter Pan with enhanced prestige, as Counterpoint did last year, while the race may equally well eliminate one or more of the others. The other possibilities in the only race in North America which conforms precisely to the conditions of the original Epsom Derby, includes Brookmeade Stables Florida Derby and Swift Stakes winner, Sky Ship, Mrs. Walter M. Jeffords One Count, Joseph M. Roeblings Old Ironsides, Starmount Stables Primate and possibly one or two others. While there can be no "Triple Crown" winner this year, Calumet Farms Hill Gail haying developed osselets in winning the Kentucky Derby, and Greentree Stables potential champion, Tom Fool, has been sidelined by the cough, all of the other sophomore colts with an established chance of leading the division are expected to appear in Saturdays classic. There is another stake on the agenda for the coming week, the 0,000 Top Flight Handicap, for fillies and mares at a mile and a sixteenth, adorning the Wednesday program. Such clever distaff runners as Kiss Me Kate, the 1951 champion; Vala-dium, Boot All, Busanda, Toto, Blue Moon, Anchors Aweigh and Thelma Berger are expected to appear in this fixture. The week opens on Monday with a trio of features, the Whetstone, Cinderella and Singing Wood purses being the fourth, fifth and sixth events. The Whetstone brings together a small field of six juvenile fillies at four and a half furlongs oh the straight course, with Hal Price Headleys Cajole the likely favorite under Eddie Arcaro. Older fillies and mares vie at six furlongs on the main course in the Cinderella. Such speedy misses as Who Dini, Sunshine Nell, Beseech, Quiz Song, Dark Favorite and Atalanta are among the nine entered for this dash, which shapes up as an open scramble. The Singing Wood is a mile event which has attracted such useful middle-distance performers as Eolus, Blenomar, Homely Duke, Powwow, Hyvania and Potpourri. Hyvania, a Belair Stud colorbearer, who showed to better advantage over hurdles last year, is returning to action. in this event and is reported to have steadied down considerably during his long idleness
