Arlington Matron Handicap Attracts Fifteen; Your Chance And Fenelon Top Brooklyn Field: Renew Old Rivalry In Aqueduct Stake; Suburban Hero Likely Favorite Over Woodward Hope--Six Listed for Mile and Quarter Fixture, Daily Racing Form, 1941-06-28

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ARLINGTON MATRON HANDICAP ATTRACTS FIFTEEN YOUR CHANCE AND FENElON TOP BROOKLYN FIELD RENEW OLD RIVALRY ft AQUEDUCT STAKE STAKESuburban Suburban Hero Likely Favorite Over Woodward Hope Six Listed for Mile and Quarter Fixture FixtureBrooklyn Brooklyn Handicap 25000 added three yearolds and upward one mile and a quarterPP quarter PP Horse Jockey Wt 1 Attention P Roberts 105 2 Corydon J Bodiou 108 3 Fenelon J Stout 119 4 Devils Crag J Skelly 5 Your Chance D Meade 6 Dit C Bierman NEW YORK N Y June 27 The Brook ¬ lyn Handicap famous as the fixture in which some of the most memorable duels in New York turf history were staged promises to develop another stirring contest in its fifty third running as the weekends stellar at ¬ traction down at picturesque old Aqueduct tomorrow afternoon Mrs George D Wid eners Suburban hero Your Chance will renew hostilities with William Woodwards Fenelon in this mile and onequarter event which is enriched with 25000 by the Queens County Jockey Club and has drawn a prom ¬ ised field of an even half dozen The two Stalwarts were bitter rivals in threeyearold classics hereabouts last summer and fall Todays clash will be their first as aspirants for top handicap honors honorsLast Last June the chairman of The Jockey Club sent out Isolator to whip another Erden heim standardbearer Eigh Thirty in the Brooklyn but Your Chance is expected to rule the public choice despite his top impost of 121 pounds as he goes to the post to avenge that reversal and at the same time repay an old score in his private feud with Fenelon FenelonThe The Saturday crowd seems certain to make the combination of Your Chance and Don Meade so successful in the Suburban even money and probably less than that with Fenelon second choice choiceFenelon Fenelon enjoys a twopound pull over Your Chance ChanceOPPOSITION OPPOSITION FOR NAME HORSES HORSESThere There are four ovners who hope to over ¬ throw both the name horses W Arnold Hangers1 Dit winner last Saturday of the Sussex at Delaware Park and Mrs Parker Comings Attention will run as an entry while Mrs Payne Whitney has named Cory ¬ don and Johnny Partridge will try to upset calculations with Devils Crag If all six that passed through the entry box yesterday go to the post the winner will taken down a net prize of 19250 not to mention the pres ¬ tige going to a Brooklyn winner winnerContinued Continued on fourth page FENELON The Sir Gallahad IH colt who made a successful comeback recently faces Your Chance In the Brooklyn Handicap today YOUR CHANCE AND FENELON RENEW RIVALRY AT AQUEDUCT AQUEDUCTSuburban Suburban Hero May Rule Choice in Brooklyn Handicap Today TodayContinued Continued from first page pageThe The Brooklyn is the outstanding event on a double stake bill marking the final Satur ¬ day of the thoroughbred sport on Long Island until next September when the scene in the Empire State shifts back to the Rock away Boulevard grounds from Saratoga The other of the two stakes is the 5000 Great American in which six of the better two yearolds in these parts are to match strides over the sixfurlong route a long one for the newcomers at this time of the year This stake also has drawn one which promises to prove a stout public choice in Ben Whitakers Requested who last weekend won the Tre mont and before that picked up the Youth ¬ ful at Jamaica JamaicaOpposing Opposing Requested will be Coldstreams Albatross leader of the Florida juveniles last winter as well as Jock Whitneys costly Buster and Belair Studs Apache both of whom graduated impressively at this meet ¬ ing Rounding out the group are Ralph Strassburgers Louisville H and B S Cut ¬ lers Quadrant Under the conditions of the Great American Requested must shoulder top impost of 122 pounds and concede weight to his opponents opponentsIndications Indications as entries were looked up for tomorrows program yesterday morning were that the sport will be favored by warm and clear June weather and a fast racing strip In the event that the track becomes muddy or sloppy it will make no revision in the form of the days entrants necessary for Aqueduct Is faster when its wet than when dry dryFenelon Fenelon and Your Chance met in four im ¬ portant New York fixtures last season and the score is two apiece Fenelon won at the direct expense of Your Chance in the Travers and in the Realization However Your Chance whipped Fenelon in the Ken ner and in the New Yor Handicap finished in front of him again though both were injured in the race Fenelon hooked a stifle on the stall gate at the break Tvhile Your Chance came back something the worse for wear in his underpinning Your Chance wound up eighth and Fenelon ninth CLASSY DISTANCE TRIALS TRIALSThe The two come up to the Brooklyn in keen fettle Your Chance has run a mile and a quarter in 204 very handily at Belmont earlier in the week in his distance final Fenelons final was a mile and a quarter that some timed as good as 205s hard held at Aqueduct Fenelon beat a mediocre field in his first start since coming down with a cough on the eve of the Dixie at Pim ¬ lico while in his latest appearance Your Chance whipped Mioland and others of a sparkling field in the Suburban SuburbanWhile While Meade replaces Hary Richards who recently resigned as the rider on Your Chance the usual Stout is to handle Fenelon FenelonAttention Attention has been a mile in 138 for the Brooklyn while Dit is right at the top of his form as was manifest when he won the mile and a quarter of the Sussex last Saturday before Corydon and came back with a breezing mile in l423s for this stake Corydon has a weight shift of four pounds in his favor off the Sussex and will carry 108 in the Brooklyn Hes good himself now and should have no excuses on that score while in Bodiou the Greentree horse will have a strong rider riderRequested Requested jpcars to only have to run to top figures t lead the Great American field Buster was a stoutly closing fourth behind him in the Tremont the other day but fig gures to go better at this distance of six furlongs Albatross has started just once since coming here from Florida encounter ¬ ing his first defeat in the Juvenile at Bel ¬ mont where he and Requested were knocked out of it by Some Chance Apache is a good sort winning off in his one start at this meeting Quadrant who is said to choke up is another local winner while Louisville II shapes up the outsider


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