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ROSEMONT GIVEN TOP WEIGHT DuPont Representative to Carry 127 Pounds in Brooklyn Handicap Aneroid 119 Pounds. NEW YORK, N. Y., June 17. Handi-capper J. B. Campbell has kept William DuPont, Jr.s Rosemont on top for the mile and a furlong of the 0,000 Brooklyn Handicap,- to be decided a week from Saturday. The son of The Porter is required to take up 127 pounds and at that impost he gives five pounds to Seabiscuit and seven pounds to Top Row. Roman Soldier, second in the handicap, is out of training. Aneroid, winner of the Suburban, and Snark, winner of both the Metropolitan and the Queens County Handicaps, are at the same notch under 119 pounds. Memory Book is in well under 114 pounds and High Fleet is handicapped at 110 pounds. Scene-shifter leads the three-year-olds with a burden of 106 pounds. The weights follow: Horse Weight Horse Weight Rosemont 127 Mosawtre 105 Roman Soldier. .124 Rust 105 Seabiscuit 122 Maeriel ......... 105 Top Row. 120 Isolater 103 Aneroid 119 Star Shadow 103 Snark 119 Bien Joli 102 Memory Book... 114 Brooklyn 102 Mr. Bones 113 Dawn Play 102 Good Goods 112 Fair Stein ..102 Count Arthur. . . .110 Our Reigh . . .102 High Fleet 110 Scotch Bun 102 Corundum .......108 Fencing 100 Gold Seeker 107 Billionaire 98 White Cockade.. 107 Bulwark 98 Sceneshifter 106 Bobs Boys..."... 95 Gleeman 105 Riparian. 95 Closed with sixty nominations, of which twenty-eight declared. Penalties accrue from 5 p. m.j June 16. Winners of ,500 after publication of weights, three pounds extra.
