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Sysonby Nominations on File For Tom Fool, Native Dancer SARATOGA, Saratoga Springs, N. Y., Aug.4 18. Alex Robb, general manager of the Westchester Racing Association, announced today that formal nominations to the 0,000 Sysonby Mile had been received from Greentree Stable and Alfred G. Van-derbilt for Tom Fool and Native Dancer. What promises to be the "race of the year" is scheduled for Saturday, September 26, at Belmont Park. Tom Fool is currently at Saratoga after scoring hollow victories in the Wilson Mile and Whitney Stakes, while Native Dancer is at Washington Park, where .he shipped after an easy triumph in the Travers last Saturday. Assuming that Native Dancer does the expected and wins the American Derby this week-end, he will come to the Sysonby Mile with a 1953 record of nine victories n 10 starts, the one blot being his narrow defeat by Dark Star in the Kentucky Derby, and a clear title to the three-year-old leadership. Tom Fool is unbeaten in eight starts this year and was the first horse to win the handicap "Triple Crown" of the Metropoli- tan, Suburban and Brooklyn, since Whisk Broom II. achieved it 40 years ago. Native Dancer was unebeaten at two last year, while Tom Fool was on the sidelines during much of the 1952 campaign and reached his best form late in the fall. The Sysonby Mile will be at weight-forage, with Tom Fool carrying 126 pounds and Native Dancer 119. The two champions may meet again at a mile and three-sixteenths in the 0,000 Pimlico Special in October, while Native Dancer may also be seen in The Jockey Club Gold Cup at two miles and the Empire Gold Cup at a mile and five furlongs, races for which Tom Fool is not expected to be pointed.
