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Buttevant, Quick Lunch Go in Fair Harbor Purse By Jeepers and Peter Lane Also Expected to -Attract Attention BELMONT PARK, Elmont, L. I., N. Y., May 27. — Fridays "off-day" program at Belmont Park is headed by the Fair Harbor Purse, a six-furlong dash on the main course for three-year-olds. This test has attracted a field of seven, including several with stakes pretensions. Favoritism is expected to be almost equally divided between John Barry Ryans Buttevant and Wheat-ley Stables Quick Lunch, who were last seen in the Delaware Valley Stakes at Garden State Park. Quick Lunch finished a length before Buttevant in that New Jersey sprint, in which both were unplaced, while both colts finished second in their previous outings here at Belmont Park. Quick Lunch was narrowly beaten in the Swift Stakes, in which Buttevant was a fast-finishing fourth, while the Ryan colt came back to finish second to Jet Action in the Withers Mile after going wide at the final bend. George Glassner will ride Buttevant at 117 pounds, while Jess Higley will be on Quick Lunch at 120. Allen H. Smiths By Jeepers, who won the Dover, Newport and Ardsley stakes -last year, and placed in five other fixtures, showed nothing in his only start of the year at Jamaica on April 10. That race was too bad to be true and the War Jeep gelding, who will be ridden by Ted Atkinson at 120 pounds, can be expected to show considerable improvement. Mrs. Ethel D. Jacobs Peter Lane, who won the Los Feliz Stakes at Santa Anita for his last outing on February 19, will also be watched attentively. If not in need of a race, the son of Priam n. can be dangerous here. No rider has been assigned as yet. The Fair Harbor field is completd by the Eugene Constantin, Jr., entry of Bushers Beam and We Wonder, 113 each, and Woodvale Farms Next Page. Bushers Beam stopped badly behind Christmas Gift on Tuesday while We Wonder is making his seasonal bow. He won one of eight starts last year. Next Page, an erratic colt, showed unwonted early speed then tired badly in a race won by Diving Board on Monday. He will be ridden by Conn Mccreary at 113 pounds and a reversion to his former stretch-running tactics might see him running over horses at the end of this dash. Fridays feature is overshadowed by Saturdays Coaching Club American Oaks and Mondays Suburban Handicap, despite the absence of Native Dancer from the holiday handicap. Hasty House Farms Queen Hopeful, Cain Hoy Stables Cherokee Rose and Brandywine Stables Rain are expected to stage a bitter duel in the mile and three furlongs of the Classic Oaks. A field of at least 14, headed by Royal Vale, is expected to go postward in the Suburban. Find may replace Native Dancer in the Vanderbilt silks in this mile and a quarter. The other probables are Straight Face, .Capeador, Cold Command, Impasse, Magic Lamp, Alerted, Jamie K., Bassanio, Mandingo, Matagorda, Turgueneff and Impulsivo.
