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AQUEDUCT STAKES ATTRACT Best Horses in Country Named for New York Prizes. Brooklyn Handicap to Be Run on June 24, and Dwyer Stakes and Carter Handicap on June 17. NEW YORK, N. Y., May 27.— According to announcement made by president John E. Cowdin of the Queens County Jockey Club the list of 464 nominations to the major stakes to be run at the summer meeting at the Aqueduct course shows a strong partiality of owners and trainers for that popular course as indicated by the extent to which the various special features from sprints to distance races have been patronized. Track conditions at Aqueduct are recognized as being the most uniformly consistent regardless of the weather. The Aqueduct course seems to have a monopoly of the kind of soil that makes racing in the mud as fast and sometimes faster than on the dry. OLD FIXTURES. The nine stakes down for decision at Aqueducts summer meeting, which starts Thursday, June 8, and continues for twenty-one days through Saturday, July 1, are the Brooklyn Handicap, with 0,000 added, the Dwyer Stakes, with 0,000 added; the Shev-lin and Gazelle Stakes, each with ,000 added; the Carter Handicap, with ,500 added; the Queens County Handicap, with ,000 added, and the Tremont, Astoria and the Great American, each with ,500 added. Each of these events has attracted the cream of the thoroughbred world in its respective class, quality dominating each event. Among the thirty-six nominated for the 0,000 added Brooklyn Handicap, the star attraction of the meeting, are such sturdy contenders for championship honors as Johnstown, War Admiral, Fighting Fox, Sir Damion, Thanksgiving, Xalapa Clown, "Ja-cola, Sceneshifter, The Chief, Strabo, Great Union, Maeriel, Pasteurized, Mythical King, Heather Broom and Eight Thirty. DWYER 0,000 RACE. The Dwyer Stakes, with 0,000 added, is second to. the Brooklyn only in the amount of added money. Among the forty-four eligible are Johnstown, Challedon, Volitant, Gilded Knight, Knickerbocker, Xalapa Clown, Equilibrium, Hash, Maeda, El Chico, Heather Broom, Lovely Night, T. M. Dor-sett and Eight Thirty. Another indication of the classy character of contestants in the other special features is shown in the opening day attraction — the Queens County Handicap, which has among ! its forty entries a galaxy of milers that have J proved worthy of consideration for championship honors. Among them are Knickerbocker, War Admiral, Johnstown, Scene-shifter, The Chief, Thanskgiving, Great Union, Grim Reaper, Fighting Fox, Sir Damion, Pagliacci, Maeriel, Teufel, Cant Wait, Mythical King, Opera Hat and Pasteurized.* The order of the running of stakes is as fallows: June 8. — The Queens County Handicap. June 10. — The Shevlin and The Tremont. June 14. — The Astoria. June 17. — The Dwyer and the Carter Handicap. June 24. — The Brooklyn. Handicap. July 1. — The Gazelle and Great American.
