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► • -4 ; Summer Tan Out of Action; Will Miss Belmont Stakes S HER RILL WARD — Trainer and developer of Summer Tan, winner of The Garden State last fall, who is expected to be absent from competition for some time. May Not Return to Races Until Mid-Summer or Early Autumn, Trainer Ward Says BELMONT PARK, Elmont, L. I., N. Y., June 1.— Trainer Sherrill Ward said today that Mrs. John W. Galbreaths fine three-year-old Summer Tan was sidelined for an indefinite period. The son of Heliopolis, who was somewhat sore after finishing third to Swaps and Nashua in the Ken-t tucky Derby, will have to miss his engagement in the Belmont Stakes on June 11, and may not return to action until midsummer, possibly not until the autumn. "He will start when he shows that he is ready," Ward said, "but he will not be rushed to fill any particular engagement." In Shadow of Death Last Fall The young trainer had done a remarkable job of bringing Summer Tan back from the shadow of death last fall, when he was stricken with an intestinal embolism after his brilliant triumph in The Garden State, to win his first start at Jamaica and drive Nashua to a neck finish in the Wood Memorial. He had been in light training in recent weeks at Belmont Park. Ward said that Summer Tans front j ankles had both been "warm" after his race in the Wood Memorial and had filled very slightly, not enough to stop his training for the Kentucky Derby, probably sufficient to account for the wide margin he was beaten by Nashua in that race. The condition was aggravated in the Churchill Downs event and the colt is now undergoing treatment, both for his ankles and ,for a trace of osselets near the same joints.
