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STAKE DATES AT AQUEDUCT Schedule of Feature Races for Summer Meeting From June 11 to July 4. NEW YORK, N. Y April IS Dates for sixteen of the stakes at the summer meeting of the Queens County Jockey Club at Aqueduct, June 11 to July 4, inclusive, have been selected. The salient feature of opening day is the ,000 Queens County Handicap, for older horses. The big days of the meeting are Saturday, June 28, and Friday, July 4. Three stakes are on the program for each day. On Saturday the Wingfield Handicap will bring out the jumpers, the Tremont Stakes will be contested by two-year-olds, and the Dwyer .will see some of the leading three-year-olds engaged. It was in the Dwyer of 1920 that Man o War and John P. Grier fought their memorable duel. The July 4 card offers the Glendale Steeplechase Handicap, Carter Handicap and Shevlin Stakes. Following are the Aqueduct stake dates: June 11 Queens County Handicap, ,000, three-year-olds and upward, one mile June 14 Hudson Stakes, ,500, two-year- olds, five furlongs. Brooklyn Handicap, j 2,500, three-year-olds and upward, one mile and a furlong. June 20 Wheatley Steeplechase Handicap, ,000, four-year-olds and upward, about ; - two miles. I June 21 Great American, ,000, two-year-olds, five furlongs. Brookdale Handicap, ,000, three-year-olds and upward, one i mile and a furlong. June 25 Broadway Handicap, ,500, three-year-olds and upward, one mile and a sixteenth. June 2C Clover Stakes, ,500, two-year-old fillies, five furlongs. June 28 Winfield Steeplechase Handicap, ,500, four-year-olds and upward, about two miles. Tremont Stakes, ,000, two- year-olds, six furlongs. Dwyer Stakes, 0,000, three-year-olds, one mile and a half. July 2 Gazelle Stakes, ,500, three-year-old fillies, one mile and a sixteenth. July 3 Astoria Stakes, ,500, two-year-old fillies, five furlongs. July 4 Glendale Steeplechase Handicap, ,000, four-year-olds and upward, about two miles and a half. Carter Handicap, ,000, three-year-olds and upward, seven furlongs. Shevlin Stakes, ,000, one mile.
