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JAMAICAS SATURDAY FEATURE Stuyvesant Handicap Attracts Sixteen Entries, Including Several Prominent Derby Eligibles. NEW YORK, N. Y., April 23 Sixteen or the eligibles have accepted the weights for the Stuyvesant Handicap, the week-end feature at Jamaica tomorrow afternoon. It is a six furlongs dash confined to three-year-olds, to which ,500 is added, and should all sixteen go to the post it will gross ,050, making it a prize of importance. This stake was last run in 1924 and it is one of the worthy revivals of the year. It was won by Ordinance, which raced for the late Maj. August Belmont and one of its notable winners was Man o War, in the 1920 renewal. The field for its revival is an excellent one, with William Ziegler, Jr., and Alfred G. Vanderbilt each promising to send out a team. The Ziegler pair is composed of Lost Batallion and Zostera, while Airflame and Savage will bear the Vanderbilt silks. DERBY ELIGIBLES. George Odom will saddle Marshall Fields Kentucky Derby candidate Charing Cross and two other Derby eligibles are Wheatley Stables Melodist and Greentree Stables Chi-colorado, both winners at the meeting. William H. Gallaghers Rudie, winner on opening day of the New York season, is another good one of the company, and Jewell Dor-sett, winter performer that has improved steadily, is named. Rebellion will race for George D. Widener, and the remainder of the field is composed of some of the best sprinters that have thus far been uncovered. There are two races for juveniles on the supporting card for the Stuyvesant, and second in importance to the feature is the Parole Handicap, at a mile and one-sixteenth, which engages half a dozen of quality, with Greentree Stables Memory Book at the top, under a burden of 122 pounds. Count Arthur is another in this field, with Thorson to make his first appearance of the year, as well as the good mare Esposa. The other two are Piccolo and Moon Side. Altogether the card for the second Saturday of the Jamaica meeting is a decidedly interesting one.
