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ROSEMONT GOES TODAY Meets Seabiscuit, Aneroid and Other Stars in Brooklyn Handicap. Famous Fixture Banked by Gazelle and Great American Stakes as Supporting Attractions. NEW YORK, N. Y., June 25. Rosemont, Seabiscuit and Aneroid, all named to go in the mile and a furlong of the Brooklyn Handicap at Aqueduct Saturday afternoon, gives that famous old prize unusual importance and, besides these, there are six others to add greatly to the interest, possibly the most notable being Memory Book. In all, there are nine that have accepted the weights and with all of them appearing under silks the renewal will have a value of 5,350. This year the Queens County Jockey Club doubled the added money when it was endowed with 0,000 and this response by the horsemen is evidence of how the liberality has been appreciated. Besides this Brooklyn Handicap there is the Gazelle that engages the three-year-old fillies and the Great American, for the juveniles. The Gazelle, which is a gallop of a mile and a sixteenth, with six named to go, will gross ,500 and the Great American, a dash of six furlongs, has eight named which will give it a value of ,750. Then the devotees of cross country racing have their event in the Old Glory Steeplechase Handicap at two miles and a half and its popularity is attested when eight accepted the weights giving it a value of ,820. BIG DAY AT AQUEDUCT. This is the big day of the Queens County Jockey Club season though the meeting does not come to a conclusion until Wednesday. For the three remaining days the cards will be made up of overnight events, but each day has a thoroughly attractive card that will surely keep up the interest that has been manifested right through the season. Naturally the Brooklyn, that goes away back to 1887 and that famous finish at the Continued on thirty-sixth page. ROSEMONTJOES TODAY Continued from first page. old Gravesend Course when Dry Monopole, Blue Wing and Hidalgo swept over the line so closely locked that in these days of the camera a photo would have been required by the placing judges, stands out over the other specials. Rosemont, winner of the 00,000 Santa Anita Handicap for William du Pont Jr. last February and since beaten in the renewal of the Suburban, at Belmont Park, is being brought back to the wars thoroughly fit, taking a line through the work sheets and despite his top weight of 127 pounds he will have a strong following. C. S. Howards Sea-biscuit, one of the best horses that, raced in California during the past season, is making his first New York appearance of the year and like the son of The Porter he has been working well for this engagement. His impost is 122 pounds and at that weight he is taking up an equal burden with John A. Manfusos Aneroid. REMARKABLE DEVELOPMENT. This fellow, like Rosemont, a son of The Porter, is a remarkable development of this season and after a successful campaign in Maryland he established himself in the top class in New York when he was winner of the mile and a quarter of the Suburban Handicap. He carried 110 pounds in that running and his next appearance saw him winner of the seven furlongs of the Carter Handicap, carrying 123 pounds. He had been handicapped at 119 pounds in the Brooklyn, but the Carter victory incurred a penalty of three pounds which gives him 122, equal poundage with Seabiscuit. In both of these New York appearances Aneroid has impressed greatly and no starter is better equipped to run a smashing nine furlongs. The Greentree Stables Memory Book, under 114 pounds, is another that has qualified handsomely for the Brooklyn. He will have Eddie Arca.ro for his pilot and that is a decided advantage from the present excellent form of that talented rider. GOLD SEEKER STARTER. The Messenger filly, Gold Seeker, will be sent out to bear Rosemont company and while she is rather a temperamental miss she is capable, when in a running mood, to beat the best of them when only required to take up 107 pounds. Like her more illustrious stablemate, Gold Seeker, has been training well for the engagement. Others that complete the field are Louis Strubes consistent mare, Rust, Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilts Scotch Bun, Dewitt Pages Maeriel and Hugh Jacksons Bulwark, the light weight of them all with 98 pounds as his burden. From such a field the best tradition of the old prize should be thoroughly sustained. The Gazelle, which is of equal antiquity with the Brooklyn Handicap, being first run in 1887, does not contain the name of R. J. Klebergs Dawn Play, best of her age and sex, and winner of the Acorn Coaching Club, American Oaks and the American Derby, but ahe is about the only top class absentee. Of the eight that will race in the Great American Stakes the top weight will be carried by E. J. Benjamins Catalysis, the daughter of Stimulus, which has been racing exceedingly well among both the fillies and the colts, and Robert L. Gerrys Perpetuate. The colt takes up 119 pounds and Catalysis under 116 pounds merely has her sex allowance.
