Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-13
Belmont Heads
Rich Card for
3-Year-0Ids
Sword Dancer
Is 8-5 Choice
Over 10 Rivals
BY the Assoclatsd Press


$780, 900 In added money today
In four rich stake races with
only Round Table, worlds
leading money winner. Offer
ing them any serious OPPOSE
ton for the turf spotlight.
Richest and best known of
the 3-year-old events is the
$l25, 900 added Belmont Stakes,
the last Of the Triple Crown
seires which also includes the
Kentucky Derby and Freak
ness. II all IL entries start.
the ~ mile test at Belmont
Park will gross $l47.500.
Heading the field is Mrs.
Halina Braunstein's Royal
Orbit, winner Of the Preakness;
Brookmeade Stables Sword
Dancer, second in the Ken
lucky Derby and Preakness
and winner over older horses
in the recent Metropolitan
Handicap. and King Ranch's
Black Hills. who romped of
with the Peter Pan a week ago.
All Garry 126
All carry 1875 pounds with
Sword Dancer the early IA
vorite but by no big margin
over Royal Orbit (2-to-D and
Black Hills (4-to-D. Victory
for one of 10 Of the entries
would mean net earnings OF
| $94.825. To Manassa Mauler,
a supplementary entry at a
cost of $1,000, the triumph
would be worth $89.875. Tele-
vision over WTOP-9 is from
4:30 to S pm. Washington
time. Post time is 4;;46 pm.
Willie Shoemaker. who won
the Derby aboard Tony Lee
but had to settle for second in
the Preakness, again rides
Sword Dancer. Bill Harmatz
pilots Royal Orbit. who was
fourth in the Louisville classic
Eddie Arcaro. who rode Black
Hills In the Peter Pan, seeks
his seventh Belmont score or
the King Ranch colt. The King
Ranch of Robert j.. Kleberg. jr.
is the only owner with a previ-
Gus winner, having scored with
Assault. underground and
High Gun.
Others entered in the 9lst
and richest Belmont we're Emil
Dolce's Manassa Mauler. John
S. Kroese's North Pole End. the
Claiborne Farms Ounce. w. M
Ingram's Scotland. the Wheat
ley Stables The Irishman
Howard B. Keck's Bagdad, the
Copalan Stables Joe's Master
and P. H. B. Freylinghuysen'S
Lake Erie.
Tony Lee Running
Three thousand miles west
and some three hours later
Tony Lee makes his first ap.
pearance since winning the
Derby. He goes in the lie
miles Of the 50.O00-added Gin
ema Handicap at Hollywood
Park as the top weight u26) in
the field of eight.
Silver Spoon, the filly who
ran a creditable fifth in the
Kentucky Derby, also returns
to action in the Cinema With
a weight assignment Of 100
pounds, the daughter Of Cita-
ton is highly regarded along
with Ole Fols, who defeated
| Tony Lee last winter. Ole Fols
! packs ll9.
The other two 3-year-old
races are on the East Coast
where Intentionally. winner OF
the Withers Mile. figures to be
the odds-on-choice against five
rivals in the $4,000 added Sc
! lect Handicap at Monmouth
Park and Royal Dazzler ana
Open View heads a field Of 10
in the $4,000 added Gent at
Delaware Park. The Select is
a 6-furlong test with Inten-
tionally assigned top weight Of
1875 pounds.
Round Table, sidelined four
months by a leg injury, faces
IL opponents In the mile Of the
$50, 900 added Citation Handi-
cap at Washington Park I'm
der top weight Of 1870 pounds,
Round Table gives from 10 TO
26 pounds to his rivals as he
attempts to add to his bank
roll Of $l.363,189.