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Career Boy Makes 57 Debut Today Assigned 1 24 Top Impost at Belmont Lofty Peak, First Served And Writer Among Six Foes in Nine Furlongs Handicap By Staff Correspondent BELMONT PARK, Elmont, L. I., N. Y., June 26. — The 0,000 Central Park Handicap, a classified event at a mile and a furlong, is the feature attraction here tomorrow. This event is to mark the 1957 debut of C. V. Whitneys Career Boy, who has been training cleverly for some weeks, but has not started since finishing fourth in the Prix de lArc de Triomphe in France last October. Career Boy has been assigned 124 pounds tomorrow, on the strength of his 1956 form, which saw him win the Gotham Stakes and United Nations Handicap and finish second in the Blue Grass and Belmont Stakes before going to France. Sam Boulmetis will ride. C. Mahlon Klines Lofty Peak, 121, and J. J. Crowleys- First Served, J 15 pounds, loom- the chief rivals to Career Boy tomorrow. Long recognized as a superior grass runner, Lofty Peak scored brilliantly on the main track here on June 13, beating First Served by four and a half lengths while stepping a mile and a sixteenth in 1:42, just a tick off of Parlos track mark. Arcaro Aboard First Served Lofty Peak, who just galloped under Mike Sorrentino, will again have that boys services. Eddie Arcaro will be back on First Served, who finished strongly in that race and has a weight shift of 10 pounds in his favor. The prospect* of a wet track favors Fred J. Thompsons Writer, who won his last here on a fast track, but moves up on a sloppy strip. John Choquette will again ride Writer, who gets in with 109 pounds,. Joe W. Browns Mr. Al L., also 109 and Ray Broussard, finished almost six lengths behind Writer last week while trying to concede six pounds. . The well-matched field is completed by Brandywine Stables Countermand, 114, and King Ranchs Beam Rider, 113 pounds. Beam Rider, who will be ridden by Bill Boland, has not started since his winning race at Jamaica on May 24, but has been training cleverly. Countermand, who has no rider as yet, ran up a strong of overnight victories before coming to grief in Admiral Vees Edgemere Handicap accounting, in which he flattened out badly to finish eighth in the field of nine.
