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Renewals of Brooklyn Great American and Gazelle Top Weeks Aqueduct Card Your Chance Heads List of Probables for First Mentioned Attraction AttractionNEW NEW YORK N Y June 21 The Brook ¬ lyn last of the big triree of New Yorks early season handicaps is the most important of the three remaining stakes on Aqueducts roster This timehonored test of a mile and a quarter also is the richest stake of the Queens County Jockey Club meeting with 25000 added and will be decided as the stellar attraction on Saturdays program Many leading handicap performers have dropped out of the lists as a result of the vicissitudes of training so that the Brooklyn will be of special interest as it may develop the Easts chief bidder for the title this year yearHeading Heading the Brooklyn probables is Mrs George Wideners Your Chance who won the Suburban Handicap at Belmont Park in which he defeated Mioland He will be the starting top weight in Saturdays special under 121 pounds At this writing the stout ¬ est of his rivals appears to be Myron Selz nicks Cant Wait under 119 and Belair Studs Fenelon whom Jack Campbell as ¬ signed a like impost Then there are W Arnold Hangers Dit 110 Greentree Stables Corydon 108 S D Riddles The Finest 105 J E Wideners Grasshopper II 102 John Partridges Devils Crag 100 and R Sterling Clarks Abbe Pierre 95 Its a sparkling probable field one that gives local turf enthusiasts a rare treat to which they will look forward on the weekend weekendCOMPANION COMPANION FEATURE FEATUREThe The companion feature of the Brooklyn is the Great American which is enriched with 5000 The juveniles will be asked to travel six furlongs in this offering The first stake of the week is Wednesdays Gazelle renewal mile and onesixteenth offering for threeyearold fillies with an endowment of 5000 It is expected to attract no less capa ¬ ble a miss than Greentrees Tangled recpnt winner of the Top Flight and Delaware Oaks She will be tested by Cis Marion winner of the Pimlico Oaks and the pride of Maryland not to mention MarshalfFields swift Strange Device Just the three would make it one of the keenest and most significant of the Gazelle runnings runningsIt It is fairly certain that the stable provid ¬ ing the winner of the Brooklyn will wind up the meeting as its biggest moneywinning establishment This stake is a heritage from I the old Gravesend track and was inaugurated I in 1887 when Dry Mpnbple won at the direct i expense of Blue Wing and Hidalgo Such stalwarts as The Bard Tenny Irish Lad Celt King James FitzHerbert Whisk Broom II Friar Rock Cudgel Grey Lag Exter ¬ minator Discovery and Seabiscuit won vari ¬ ous of its more memorable renewals renewalsGREAT GREAT RENEWAL OF 1917 1917In In 1917 the Brooklyn produced one of its greatest races when Harry Payne Whitneys Borrow beat his stablemate Regret in a headandhead battle that carried to what was then a new American mile and one fur ¬ long record of 149 Old Rosebud like Regret thirdAnother a Kentucky Derby winner was third Another wellremembered Brooklyn was that of 1922 when Exterminator carried 135 pounds to 126 on Grey Lag and beat him a matter of inches It is said that Extermina ¬ tor supped lightly that night for the only time in his career careerSeveral Several of the less conspicuous eligibles for the Brooklyn will be seen under colors at Aqueduct on Monday when Moscow II Satin Cap and Devils Crag appear for a mile and a sixteenth test There they will meet a tough pair in Foxbrough and Sague nay II who are not in the Brooklyn how There is a chance that the Gazelle on Wednesday will attract the winners of each of the three most important er rly season fixtures for filly threeyearrolds Tangled winner of the Delaware Oaks Cis Marion who won the similar stake at Pimlico and Level Best heroine of the Coaching Club Oaks are all eligible and rated as prob ¬ ables Tangled from this distance shapes up as j stout a Gazelle choice as Your Chance prom I ises to prove in the Brooklyn BrooklynTANGLED TANGLED IN SPEED TRIAL TRIALTangled Tangled set a new Delaware Park track mark in the Oaks there and showed that she is ready to fly in the Gazelle when Johnny Gaver called on her for speed at Belmont Saturday morning In this move the Sweeping Light filly electrified work watchers when she sped a half in 45 six furlongs in 110 and a mile in 136X Horses do not work faster than that Only Whirlaway this season has shown as im ¬ pressive a move as that of the Gazelle eligibles eligiblesThe The Great American always has brought an interesting contest among some of the seasons best twoyearolds and from a per ¬ usal of the list of ninety0ie nominees the forthcoming edition of this affair next Sat ¬ urday should be no exception Seven of the colts in the Tremont particularly Sun Again and Some Chance will be conspicuous absentees from the Great American lineup but a number of colts that had been laid up with cough during Belmont will be seen under colors in the remaining nine days of the Aqueduct meeting
