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♦ — . . Tom Fool Assigned 128 Pounds For Suburban This Week End i r I - 5 5 • I I I • : I ! • » I 1 ; ■ ; ; | | i i i | i i Asked to Give One Count Two and Royal Vale Four In 0,000 Belmont Race BELMONT PARK, Elmont, L. I., N. Y., May 25. — As widely anticipated, Greentree Stables Tom Fool has been assigned the topweight for Saturdays sixty-seventh running of the 0,000 Suburban Handi- cap. Racing secretary John B. Campbell has given the son of Menow 128 pounds, two less than he carried for a flat mile in last Saturdays Metropolitan and in his previous victory at six furlongs in the Joe H. Palmer Handicap. Greentrees One Hitter, who won last years Suburban under 112 pounds, has been assigned 116 pounds, which is the same burden he carried when winning last years Saratoga Handicap and seems about his limit. Mrs. Walter M. Jeffords One Count, who was voted horse of the year in 1952 in the poll conducted by Daily Racing Form-The Morning Telegraph is next in the Suburban imposts with 126 pounds, while Mrs. Esther duPont Weirs Royal Vale has been given 124 pounds. Royal Vale, who had won three handicaps in a row, finished a close second to To Fool in the Metropolitan while receiving three pounds, gets another pound for a neck. However, Tom Fool was going more than six furlongs for the first time this year last Saturday and can be expected to improve, while Royal Vale was thoroughly seasoned by winter and spring racing. One Count was unplaced in the McLennan Handicap for his only start last winter after winning The Jockey Club and Empire Gold Cups last fall, came .back to win his first start at Jamaica, then finished third behind Royal Vale and Cold Command in i I the Gallant Fox Handicap for his last start. He was topweigh with 129 pounds in that mile and three-sixteenths, conceding 14 to the two who beat him three lengths and a length and a half, respectively. Unplaced in McLennan __ Mr. Jeffords Kiss Me Kate, who turned in what appeared to some observers to be the best race of her career in winning the Firenze Handicap at Jamaica last out on May 5, gets in the Suburban with 112 pounds. She has been training in exactly the same style as One Count. Brookfield Farms Intent, who turned in a good race to be third in the Metropolitan after a long absence, has 121 pounds to • carry on Saturday and can be expected to J I improve with that race under his girth. C. V. Whitneys Cold Command, who followed good races in the Gallant Fox and | Dixie Handicaps with a dull one in the Metropolitan, also gets in with 112. Belair Studs Golden Gloves, winner of his last start in New Jersey, has 110 pounds, the same impost given Myhelyn Stables Master Fiddle and King Ranchs High Scud. Two of the comparatively highweights are doubtful starters. Hasty House Farms Oil Capitol, 116, is not expected to come in from Chicago, where he is recuperating from an illness, and Mrs. J. P. Adams South American Sarraceno, 117, has yet to make his local debut. No less than 16 of the 50 originally nominated to the Suburban were declared before the publication of the weights, which may be a record, as well as evidence of the wear and tear that is effecting the handicap division. Crafty Admiral is the best of this group. Complete weiehts follow: Horse. Wt. Tom Fool 128 One Count 126 Royal Vale 124 Intent 121 Sarraceno 117 Oil Capitol 116 One Hitter 116 Cold Command 112 Kiss Me Kate 112 Golden Gloves 110 High Scud 110 Master Fiddle 110 Brush Burn 108 Bryan G. 108 How 108 Iceberg n. 108 Hitex 107 Horse. Wt. King Jolie 106 Devilkin 105 . Risque Rouge 105 Ancestor 103 Count Turf 103 Admirals Pride 102 Great Captain 102 Lafourche 102 Out Point 102 Begorra 100 Heraclito 100 First Aid 98 Olympic View 98 « Put Out 98 Referee 98 Bit o Fate 95 Mr. Turf 92 1 t 1 Declared: Ararat H., Crafty Admiral, Diamond Jimmy, Dulat, First Glance, Going Away, Goodwillow, Handsome Teddy, Ken, Lone Eagle, Mandingo, Quiet Step, Sky Ship, Steel, Sunglow, Tenedos.
