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Gay Grecque Heads Seven at Belmont Vying in Housemaid Handicap Today Sunshine Nell Main Threat; j Tom Fool Has Honor Impost Of 130 for Palmer Memorial BELMONT PARK, Elmont, L. I., N. Y., May 16. — Three stakes and a lucrative overnight handicap are on the agenda for the coming week at beautiful Belmont. The climax of the weeks sport is the sixtieth running of the 0,000 added Metropolitan Handicap at one mile, while some of the candidates for this rich event may go postward in the 5,000 Joe H. Palmer Memorial Handicap, an overnight event which will have its first running on Tuesday at six furlongs. The mid-week feature is Wednesdays renewal of the filly division of the 0,000 added National Stallion Stakes for junior misses at five furlongs on the Widener straightaway. The other stake on the schedule is the forty-eighth running of the ,500 Corinthian Steeplechase Handicap, which will be staged at about two miles on Thursday. Weights for the Palmer Memorial were released late this afternoon, while those for the Metropolitan are due on Monday. Greentree Stables Tom Fool will be the topweight in both races. The son of Me-now, who has been training in brilliant style, won his only start of the year at Jamaica in a test at five and one-half furlongs, then was scratched from the Toboggan Handicap on opening day here when the track was "off." Tom Fool has been assigned 130 pounds in the Palmer Handicap, which is not enough to encourage many of the dozen others named for the dash on the main track. Harborvale Stables Dark Peter is next in line with 121 pounds and comes from a good race in the Toboggan, while I Brookfield Farms Intent, who has been on the sidelines since the Santa Anita meeting, has 120 pounds. Intent has been training well but probably needs this race if he is to be a factor in the Metropolitan on Saturday. The week opens with the Housemaid Handicap, a ,000 overnight event for fillies and mares at six furlongs. A field of seven has been named for this dash, headed by Mrs. S. G. Zauderers hardhitting Gay Grecque with 122 pounds. This daughter of Heliopolis won the seven -furlong Test Stakes at Saratoga last year, as well as four other races, and returned to action here last Saturday with a clever victory over Bryan G. and nine others at Mondays distance. She picks up a dozen pounds, but her chief rival, M. J. Kaplans Sunshine Nell, also adds 10 pounds and finished some five lengths behind the top-weight. No rider has been named for Gay Grecque while Hedley Woodhouse will again be on Sunshine Nell, who was the favorite in their last encounter and had no apparent excuse. Mrs. Walter M. Jeffords Lily White, 114, and Harry LaMontagnes Valadium, 109, have showed considerable class on occasions, but came from a dismal race at Jamaica in which they finished at the wrong end of the field in a mile and a sixteenth event. Lily White had speed for a half mile, then tired badly, while Valadium was eased up at the finish when hopelessly beaten. G. F. Stricklands One Miss comes from a surprisingly good race here behind Aesthete, in which she set the pace for seven furlongs of the mile event, then finished a respectable second in front of such as Mar-ta and Islay Mist. One Miss adds five pounds here to carry 112, but may have been helped by that race, which was her first in some time. The Housemaid field is completed by Brae Burn Farms Star-Enfin, who has showed nothing since her fine juvenile campaign two years ago, and Hal Price Headleys Recover, who has been racing without success in New Jersey. Star-Enfin gets in with 104 pounds, while Recover carries 110. The weights for the Joe H. Palmer Handicap follow: Horse. Wt. Horse. Wt. Tom Fool 130 Delegate 111 Dark Peter 121 Northern Star 109 Intent 120 Whither 109 Alerted 116 Nullify 105 Hyphasis 116 Pacific Ocean 105 Eatontown 114 Reprimand 103 Tea-Maker 114
