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1 1 1 , ! 1 , ■ I | AQUEDUCTS STAKE DATES Order of Running of Popular Fixtures with the Dwyer as the Headliner. NEW YORK, N. Y.. May 22.— Stake books for the summer meeting of the Queens County Jockey Club at Aqueduct are being distributed among horsemen at all racing centers. This meeting follows the current one at Belmont Park, opening on June 11 and running to July 4, a period of twenty-one days. Twenty-three fixed events will be renewed with an aggregate added value of 02,000. The stake values range from ,000 for some of the claiming races to 0,000 for the famous Dwyer Stakes, a mile and a half contest for three-year-olds. The Dwyer is the big event of the meeting. A memorial to one of the outstanding figures in Metropolitan turf history a generation and more ago, its fame became far reaching as the most gruelling race Man o War ever ran. It was in the 1920 renewal of the Dwyer that the son of Fair Play and Mahubah and John P. Grier hooked up and it was not until the final eighth that Man o War put away his rival after they had raced like a team to that point. Of secondary importance to the Dwyer in regard to value is the Brooklyn Handicap, a contest that has long been a big event in local racing. This has an added value of 2,500 and is for three-year-olds and up at a mile and an eighth. Following are the Aqueduct stakes, with dates and conditions : Queens County Handicap, ,000, three-year-olds and up, one mile, June 11. Rockaway Claiming Stakes, ,000, three-year-olds and up, three-quarters mile, June 13. Bayside Steeplechase Handicap, ,000, four-year-olds and up, about two miles, Juno 13. Hudson Stakes, ,500, two-year-olds, five five-eighths mile, June 15. Brooklyn Handicap, 2,000, three-year-olds, one mile and an eighth, June 15. Union Claiming Stakes, ,500, three-year-olds, seven-eighths mile, June 17. Shevlin Stakes, ,000, three-year-olds, one mile, June 18. Wheatley Steeplechase Handicap, ,000, four-year-olds and up, about two miles, Juno 19. Clover Stakes, ,500. two-year-old fillies, five-eighths mile, June 20. Canarsie Claiming Stakes, ,000, two-year-olds, five-eighths mile, June 21. Great American Stakes, ,000, two-year-olds, one mile, June 22. Brookdale Handicap, ,000, three-year-olds and up, one mile and an eighth, June 22. Speculation Handicap, claiming, ,000, three-year-olds and upward, one mile, Juno 24. Gazelle Stakes, ,500, three-year-old fillies, one mile and a sixteenth, June 25. Winfield Steeplechase Handicap, ,500, four-year-olds and up, about two miles, June 26. Wood Haven Claiming Stakes, ,000, two-year-olds, five-eighths mile, June 27. Tremont Stakes, ,000, two-year-olds, three-quarters mile, June 29. Dwyer Stakes, 0,000, three-year-olds, one mile and a half, June 29. Myrtle Claiming Stakes, ,000, three-year-olds and up, one mile, July 1. Broadway Handicap, ,500, three-year-olds and up, one mile and a sixteenth, July 3. Glendale Steeplechase Handicap, ,000, four-year-olds and up, about two miles and a half, July 4. Astoria Stakes, ,500 ; two-year-old fillies, five-eighths mile, July 4. Carter Handicap, ,000, three-year-olds and up, seven-eighths mile, July 4.
