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Weighing In By Evan Shipman Fillies Need More Allowance Against Colts Short Sighted Trainers Oppose Big Jumps Adios Harry-Adios Boy Match Race Awaited BELMONT PARK, Elmont, L. I., N. Y., June 11.— Jimmy Kilroes weights for Aqueducts opening feature, Mondays renewal of the Queens County Handicap, are far more interesting as an illustration of a condition long prevalent in American racing than they can possibly be in terms of direct application to this mile and a sixteenth stake, the horses whose assignments give rise to these speculations being non-starters. For instance, we find here Alfred Vanderbilts excellent campaigner. Social Outcast, topping the long list with 127 pounds, nine more in actual weight than has been assigned Foxcatcher Farms brilliant four-year-old filly, Parlo, winner during the week of the Top Flight Handicap and voted, last season, the queen of her division. Taking the sex allowance into account, this means that Kilroe considers Social Outcast a four-pound better horse than Parlo, but Social Outcast, with such horses as High Gun, Determine and Helioscope in training, may be nearly 10 pounds below the tops of his own division. Such a comparison leaves no doubt that Kilroe does not believe the five- pound sex allowance adequate to bring our fillies and mares to equality with the colts and aged horses, and the records of our various important stakes open to contestants of both sexes certainly seem to bear him out in this view. Parlo is such a fine filly and now appears such a standout in her own division that if she needs the help of a weight concession against Social Outcast, the whole question of parity as between the sexes needs to come up for careful review.
