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STAKE ENTRIES LARGE Twenty-two Aqueduct Fixtures Attract 1,947 Nominations. Brooklyn and Dwyer Both Show Healthy Increases Over Last Years Figures. NEW YORK, N. Y., March 1. There was a feeling of jubilation in the office of the Queens County Jockey Club in Brooklyn when it was found that the entries for the stakes to be run during the coming spring meeting at Aqueduct had surpassed those of 1923. The total this year is 1,947, as against 1,909 in 1923 for the twenty-two fixtures. Naturally the greatest interest was manifested in the Brooklyn Handicap, that fine old fixture for three-year-olds and over, and the Dwyer Stakes, for three-year-olds, as these are the high lights of the Aqueduct program. The Brooklyn closed with seventy-eight nominations, five more than last year, and among those named are Zev, In Memoriam, Exterminator, Mad Hatter, Thunderclap, Bud Lerner, My Play, Enchantment, "Untidy, My Own, How Fair, Wilderness, Sarazen, Dunlin, Martingale. Little Chief, Diogenes, Cherry Pic, Vigil, Tall Timber, Little Celt, Mr. Mutt and Flying Cloud.. Every, horse.pf,. handicap, , pretensiSnfHsmime 1 and also for the Carter, Brookdale and Queens County Handicaps, which have always resulted in good contests. SEVENTY-EIGHT IX DWYER. The Dwyer Stakes, in which Man o War and John P. Grier, had their memorable duel, received seventy-eight entries as against sixty-four in 1923. The nominations include the stake winners St. James, Diogenes, Mad Play, Wise Counsellor, Big Blaze, Lord Baltimore, Tree Top, Stanwix, Transmute, Spic and Span, Ladkin, Happy Thoughts, Braca-dale. Rustic, Mr. Mutt and others that were much in the public eye last year. Sarazen is the only absentee of quality and he is ineligible because he is unsexed. The Gazelle Stakes for three-year-old fillies will bring together Nellie Morse, Anna Marrone II., Fluvanna, Parasol, Salacia, Cave Woman, Tree Top, Happy Thoughts, Initiate and other fleet young mares. Every two-year-old of promise is to -be found among the nominations for the Great American, Tremont and other fixtures that have long Continued on twelfth page. STAKE ENTRIES LARGE Continued from first page. been associated with the success of Aqueduct That the entries for the steeplechases should show a falling off is strange, as thero are supposed to be more jumping horses in training this spring than for some years past. A comparative table of the entries follows : Stake. 1923. 1924. Rrooklyn Handicap 73 73 Brookdale Handicap 07 71 Speculation Handicap 71 82 Rockaway Stakes 78 721 Carlton Stakes 72 85 Gazelle Stakes 41 51 Great American Stakes 1G0 164 Hudson Stakes 149 132 Astoria Stakes 124 102 Woodhaven Stakes 102 116 Winfield Steeplechase .04 52 Carter Handicap SI 76 Queens County Handicap 79 77 Myrtle Stakes 72 83 Ihvyer Stakes 54 73 Rroadway Stakes 67 79 l.nioa Stakes -. 76 S3 Tremont Stakes 142 146 Clover Stakes 130 107 Canarsie Stakes 100 12L Gleudalc Steeplechase 53 46 Bayside Steeplechase 42 4 Total 1,909 1.94T
