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Nine Entered in National Stallion Whitneys Catspaw Is Likely Favorite FavoriteJuvenile Juvenile Stakes Winner Has Full Flight Porterhouse and Jet Action Among Opponents OpponentsBy By BOB HORWOOD HORWOODStaff Staff Correspondent BELMONT PARK Elmont L I N Y June 9 The 41st running of the National Stallion Stakes sixth running of the colt division brings together a field of nine juveniles at Belmont Park tomorrow This is a 10000 added event but will net the owner of the winner more than 15000 while there are also awards to the nomi ¬ nators of the sires of the first three colts to finish All of the starters carry 122 pounds except Llangollen Farms Porter ¬ house and Wheatley Stables Full Flight who get in with 117 each because their young sires had not sent out a winner prior to January 1 1952 1952The The probable choice is C V Whitneys Catspaw a bay son of Mahmoud Boojie who won the Juvenile Stakes last out and captured an overnight on the Widener straightaway before that Catspaw ran the five furlongs of the Juvenile which is the same distance as the National Stallion in 57V5 but was life and death beating the outsider Permian who came back with an easy victory Eddie Arcaro again will ride Catspaw who breaks from the outside stall but also races in elaborate rundown bandages behind behindFull Full Flight was the beaten favorite in the Juvenile finishing a belated fourth and came back with a worse race behind The Prince who was not made eligible to the National Stallion then finished third in the Dover Stakes at Delaware Full Flight will have a running mate in Quick Lunch who finished a length behind him in the Juve ¬ nile Eric Guerin will ride Full Flight or Quick Lunch one rider being assignd for both colts coltsSon Son of Endeavour II IIPorterhouse Porterhouse a son of Endeavour n fin ¬ ished up the track behind the illfated Coreopsis in his debut then came back with an easy triumph over a bulky field of maidens Bill Boland is to pilot the big brown colt coltMaine Maine Chance Farm Jet Action a son of Jet Pilot from the brilliant Busher will have considerable support tomorrow This colt had been unimpressive in his trials probably because he is not a freerunning colt and Mrs Elizabeth N Graham will not allow her babies abused in the mornings After galloping along behind the field for almost a half mile in his debut while rac ¬ ing down on the inside rail he closed with a furious rush to be fifth beaten slightly more than two lengths by The Prince Ovie Scurlock will ride tomorrow and the colt has drawn an outside post position positionThe The National Stallion field is completed by James Cox Bradys Best Years Samuel A Pecks Batfish Eugene Cbnstantin Jrs Cartier and Christiana Stables Bertie Best Years who will be ridden by Jimmy Nichols comes from a dangerous barn and finished between Full Flight and Catspaw in his last start at Jamaica Batfish fin ¬ ished second to The Prince in that colts debut then beat a large field of maidens here Cartier and Bertie have to improve considerably to rate consideration
