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THIRTY ENTRIES FOR CARTER HANDICAP HANDICAPNew New York March IS Thirty entries have so far been received for the Carter Handicap the sevxu eighths of a mile special of the Queens County Jockey Clubs stake program which will be the leature for the opening day at Aqueduct on April 15 The Carter which was instituted back In the nineties when the Aqueduct course was only seven eighths of a mile around has been a 10000 race a il has been won by some of the best horses that have been seen in this country Its first winner was Charade and since Charades time Deerslayer Premier The Manxman Box Motley Ethics Ahu mada Beldame Ormondes Uight Koseben Glori fter and Jack Atkiiukave takeuthe wlunerls eudotf the stake if was not run last season because the Queens County Jockey Club held no spring meeting This vear the purse is 2500 of which the winners share will Iw about 2 MJO MJOOf Of the earlier winners of the Carter Jack Atkin is the only one renomlnated for this years renewal The big son of Sain and El Salado Is now at Jack ¬ sonville and trainer John Powers says the horse is better than hi ever was before and there are many who predict that he will win again Jack Atkin appears to like the Aqueduct track and he is always hard to beat at seveneighths of a mile Jack Atkin will undoubtedly have to shoulder big weight in this seasons Carter but trainer Powers believes he can manage heavy burdens as well as he ever did didThe The entries for the Carter to date include the fol ¬ lowing Alfred Noble NobleArondack Arondack ArondackBeaucoup Beaucoup BerkeleyCharlie Berkeley BeaucoupBerkeley Charlie Hargrave HargraveDalmatian DalmatianDuke Dalmatian Duke of Ormonde OrmondeFalcada Far FalcadaFar Falcada West WestFauntleroy Fauntleroy Firestone Glorio Grasmere Guy Fisher Jack Atkin Jack Parker King Cobalt King James King Olympian Mary Davis Pretend Prince Ahmed Prince Imperial Quautico Kestlgouche Rightcasy The Squire Tony Bouero Trance Wise Mason Sam liildreth has named for the Carter those mature horses of his big string at Sheepshead Bay that are going along most promisingly just now In King James Kestigoucho Firestone and Dalma ¬ tian he holds a strong hand Handicapper Vos burgh may assign King James to the post of honor in the coming Carter but it is thought unlikely that he will ask the son of Plaudit to make much of a concession to the Schreibcr sprinter sprinterJames James II Kcone is not as strongly represented In the Carter as he is in the Metropolitan Brooklyn and Suburban His only eligible is the threeyear old Grasmere The absence of the names of Mask ette Hilarious Sweep and Helmet from the list of Carter nominations would seem to indicate that James Howe does not want to hurry those good horses They are abundantly supplied with engage ¬ ments at Belmont Park Sheepshead Bay and Graves GravesAlfred Alfred Noble the big Garry Hermann gelding for which J E Gaffney paid 15000 hint season will probably make his debut in the Carter Alfred Noble is in the hands of the man who trained Hose ben for his Charter victory a few years ago This big fellow is at Gravcscnd and he is in line condi ¬ tion Already Frank Weir is sending him along Alfred Noble like Jack Atkin is in the Metropoli ¬ tan as well as the Carter
