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Joliet Joliet Stakes Stakes Brings Brings Out Out Field Field of of 13; 13; High High Voltage Voltage vs. vs. Parlo Parlo in in Top Top Flight Flight Belmonts Distaff Handicap Lures 14 Evening Out, Spinning Top, Riverina and Oil Painting Seen as Chief Competition By BOB HORWOOD Staff Correspondent BELMONT PARK, Elmont, L. I., N. Y., June 7. — What promises to be one of the very best filly-and-mare races of the entire racing year is being offered Belmont Park patrons tomorrow; This is the sixteenth running of the Top Flight Handicap at a mile and a sixteenth, a race that has always been a good contest among good feminine runners, but tomorrow has attracted an exceptionally fine field of 14, including the 1954 and 1955 champions. Wheatleys Stables reigning queen of the three-year-old fillies, High Voltage, is top-weight on the scale with 117 pounds, including Eddie Arcaro, while Foxcatcher Farms 1954 sophomore filly champion, Parlo, has the actual topweight of 126. The June scale calls for the three-year-olds to receive 11 pounds from their elders, while High Voltage gets nine from the daughter of Heliopolis. Eric Guerin, who won the Beldame with her last year, will be on Parlo. Winner of Eight Stakes High Voltage owes her impost, which is four pounds more than any three-year-old filly has carried into the money in the Top Flight, to a series of impressive triumphs in the Acorn Stakes, Black-Eyed Susan and Coaching Club American Oaks this year, as well as victories in the Rosedale, National Stallion, Colleen, Matron and Selima Stakes that earned her last years juvenile filly title. Parlo has started only once this year, finishing a close second to C. V. Whitneys Dispute in the Golden Anniversary Handicap at seven furlongs, a race in which she was forced to travel in the deep going along the rail all the way and tired at the end after looming a certain winner at the fur- Continued on Page Six HIGH VOLTAGE WINNING COACHING CLUB AMERICAN OAKS— The Wheatley Stable miss/ who is entered in the Top Flight Handicap today at Belmont Park, is shown leading Cain Hoy Stables Lalun by two and one-half lengths in the May 28 renewal of the Oaks at Belmont. C. T. Chenerys Monotick was two lengths off the runner-up and a neck before Louis*Lee Haggin ll/s Hen Party. High Voltage vs. Parlo in Belmonts 14-Horse Top Flight Handicap Field Evening Out, Spinning Top,4 Riyerina and Oil Painting Seen vs Chief Competition Continued from Page One long pole. Last year, Parlo won the Delaware Oaks in June, failed when sent back only nine days later in the rich New Castle Handicap, showed improvement after 23 days rest by finishing second to Clear Dawn in the Miss Woodford Stakes. Starting back 10 days later in the Monmouth Oaks, Parlo again turned in a dull effort. She was then given 18 days and came out to win the Alabama in brilliant style at Saratoga. It having become obvious that Parlo needed time between her races, she was given plenty of it, coming back after 24 days to win the Beldame at Aqueduct, then, almost six weeks later, just galr loped in the Firenze for her seasons finale, carrying 125 pounds as though it were a feather. Parlo had been drilled steadily before her debut last week and didnt appear to be carrying too much flesh for this stage of her campaign. While she may come back just a week later with another fine race, her 1954 record is against her. The opposition to the two champions in tomorrows Top Flight, which will gross 1,250 and net the winner 2,200 if all 14 go postward, is by no means negligible. Dispute, who last year won the Test Stakes at Saratoga, is back with 117 pounds, a two-pound weight shift against her in relation to Parlo for less than a length. Paul Bailey will again ride and has drawn the unfavorable number 1 post position. High Voltage, incidentally, breaks from number 3 and Parlo has drawn number 11. Several others in the Top Flight finished close behind Dispute and Parlo in the Golden Anniversary. Mrs. Joe Goodwins Oil Painting, 108; Mrs. George D. Widen-ers Evening Out, 121; C. T. Chenerys Talora, 112; J. S. Phipps Spinning Top, Continued on Page Forty-Four Parlo and High Voltage Head Top Flight Handicap Field Continued from Page Six 113, and Mrs. Georgene Renicks Turf Sun, 108i were in that rich overnight event, finishing in that order, and all but Turf Sun raced well enough to have a good chance of turning the tables on those who finished in front of them. Oil Painting, Evening Out and Talbra finished heads apart and noses behind Parlo, while Spinning Top was only about another length away and finished full of run. Spinning Top will be coupled with King Ranchs Riverina, who was an easy winner at one mile here on May 18. Hedley Wood-house will ride Spinning Top with Ted Atkinson on Riverina and the Max Hirsch-trained pair promises to be formidable at the weights. No riders have been assigned Oil Painting and Evening Out, while Bill Boland will be on Talora and Stanley Small will guide Turf Sun, who finished last in the Golden Anniversary. The others in this edition of the Top Flight are Maine Chance Farms Myrtles Jet, 113; J. M. Roeblings Crisset, 110; Com-panas Stables Ros Clag, 110; Shawmut Stables Gainsboro Girl, 114, and Walter J. Appels Another World, 115. While these will all be outsiders, all have races to their credit that make them dangerous. Three-year-olds have not fared well in the Top Flight, which was won last year by Sunshine Nell, with Eddie Arcaro in the saddle. The last sophomore to win the stake was Boojiana, with 106 pounds and Ved Atkinson in 1944, while the only other winner of that age was Tangled, who scored under Conn McCreary at 110 pounds in 1941. The highest weight carried into the money by a three-year-old was the 113 pounds How had up when finishing second to Busana, 120, in 1951. How had won the CCA Oaks before that.
