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Hall of Fame in New Turf Comeback 1 Vies With Hitex, T »— Whither in Sprint Belmonts RacingTerminates Wednesday With Top Flight; United Hunts Meet Follows j BELMONT PARK, Elmont, L. I., N. Y., June 13. — Metropolitan racing fans are . offered varied fare for the impending week. ] The Westchester Racing Association is pre-senting the final three days of the Belmont Park meeting here, climaxing the session lQ with Wednesdays 5,000 Top Flight til Handicap for fillies and mares at a mile tr and a sixteenth. On Thursday and Friday, tr , the United Hunts will present its annual two-day meeting of steeplechase, hurdle * and flat events. The 0,000 New York Turf gi Writers Cup, at about a mile and three- A [ quarters on the hurdle course, is the fea- and ■ ture of Thursdays program, while the tj . 5 000 Temple Gwathmey Steeplechase d r Handicap at about two and a quarter miles r is Fridays feature. On Saturday, the scene Q shi shifts to Aqueduct for 19-day meeting of gi County Jockey Club, with the the the Queens g i County Handicap at a mile . 5 000 Queens Q L an; and a sixteenth the inaugural fixture. 1; the Aqueduct meeting The highlights of y Carter Handicap on L i arc are the seven-furlong t Ju June 27, the Dwyer Stakes for three-year- j y mile and quarter on July 4, and 1 » old olds at a a f Brooklyn Handicap at the ! traditional * tn the j » sai same distance oh July 11. All three are 5 f I 1 0,000 events, with Tom Fool expected to t - he head the Carter and Brooklyn, while Native 5 x - D£ Dancer is eligible to the Dwyer. j I |_|| Hitex Carries 122 J _ Mondays feature at Belmont Park is the : ; 000 Confectioners Handicap, a classified ,f ev event at six furlongs, headed by Mrs. Ben 1 j s F F. Whitakers Hitex With 122 pounds. , II Gi Greentree Stables Hall of Fame, who was s e C Counterpoints chief rival for sophomore e r he honors two years ago and made an unsuc- " . e ce cessful attempt at a comeback last year, " , ;e is is slated to start a new campaign in this ? •- d£ dash under 116 pounds. The Shut Out Y. gc gelding has been training * cleverly for his s return to action. Alfred G. Vanderbilfs Whither, 119. fin-! » ished third in his last two sprints, both of ,f which «■ were won by the consistent Gay f ! Grecque, and may be a stout factor here. I l Wheatley ™ Stables Hilarious and Vera S. * Braggs Trick Pilot have the best recent jj* * form of the others. Hilarious finished sec- j" ™ ™ ong to Gideon and Brown Booter in his * last " two starts, while Trick Pilot, was a 5 , tiring fourth behind Safety, Jamie K. and L 7 I Jl Hyphasis last Saturday in his first start [ 5* after a long absence. The race should have fU i been " beneficial. Hilarious gets in with 110 pounds, p while Trick Pilot carries the same. e" The others in the dash are Four-Way 7 a Ranchs Dulat, 113; Col. Isidore Biebers s £j King Jolie, 112; David Shaers Sun Rene. e. f ■ of 108; Ray C. Staritas Giorgetti, 105, and 4 Woolford Farms Active Duty, 104. Dulat starred on Hialeahs grass course last win-ter, J | then finished third behind Crafty Ad-g miral and Battlefield in the Gulfstream m _ Park Handicap for his last outing. was is- "1
