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Generous Response to Aqueduct Stakes ♦ - Eligibles to Nine Events Total 551 Added Money Value of Fixtures Is 2,500— Whirlaway in Brooklyn NEW YORK, N. Y., May 4.— President Theodore J. Knapp of the Queens County Jockey Club expressed gratification over the wholehearted response of leading owners to the nine handsomely endowed stakes which will be renewed on the flat during the 18-day summer meeting at Aqueduct. These fixtures, aggregating 2,500 in added money, an increase of 0,000 over last year, drew a total of 551 nominations, as against 501 in 1941. Moreover, these returns are exclusive of the steeplechase and hurdle features that also are to be run during the meeting, nominations for which will close May 16. These are: the ,000 Hitchcock Steeplechase Handicap, the ,500 Amagansett Hurdle Handicap and the ,500 Cagliastro Hurdle Handicap. Mr. Knapp expects, this trio of important races through the field to lure the best jumpers and hurdlers in training. Most notable increases in nominations to the flat stakes were made for the famous Brooklyn Handicap, to be renewed June 27, and the Dwyer, Aqueducts outstanding test for three-year-olds, set for decision June 20. The Brooklyn closed with 49 nominations, as against 36 in 1941, while the Dwyer attracted 68 entries, an increase of . 22 over last year. Both the Brooklyn Handicap and the i Dwyer were increased in value, as well. , The Queens County Jockey Club boosted the Brooklyn from 5,000 to 0,000 added, i making it one of the richest stakes in the 1 country for three-year-olds and upward. The Dwyer, formerly endowed with 0,000, has been tilted to 5,000 added, consequently it will unquestionably have one of its greatest renewals. "Big Name" Horses Entered Calumet Farms Whirlaway, the "Horse of the Year" in 1941 and considered the nations No. 1 handicap performer, heads i the Brooklyn nominations. Other "big- * name" horses nominated for this coveted * prize, include Belair Studs three-year-old Apache and his older stablemate, Fenelon; Col. E. R. Bradleys Best Seller, W. L. 1 Branns Challedon and Pictor, Mrs. Parker f Comings Attention, Greentree Stables t The Rhymer, T. H. Heard, Jr.s Boysy, L. 1 B. Mayers Australian champion, Reading, c Mrs. Albert Sabaths Alsab, the two-year- i old champion of 1941; Louis Tufanos c Market Wise, Valdina Farms Hollywood t and Valdina Orphan, Mrs. G. D. Wideners Your Chance, John Hay Whitneys Gramps and Woodvale Farms Our Boots. The Dwyer will have, as usual, a strong bearing on the three-year-old champion- ] ship, since it will bring out those claimants to the title that will have seen action in j the Wood Memorial, the Kentucky Derby, | the Preakness and the Withers. i The renewal this summer should set a , new high as concerns the quality of its , candidates, among which are Apache, j Calumet Farms Wishbone and Sun Again, , Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.s Bleu dOr and • Ramillies, Greentree Stables Buckskin, , Devil Diver and Shut Out, Mrs. Ralph Mc- , Ilvains Bright Willie, R. S. McLaughlins Fairaris, Mrs. Albert Sabaths Alsab, Mrs. , Alice F. Shermans American Wolf, Valdina Farms Hollywood, Louis B. Mayers Domingo and Kings Abbey, Col. E. R. Bradleys Bless Me and Milky Way Farms 1 Dogpatch. Other important Aqueduct stakes that ; also will bring into competition the best 1 horses in each division are the ,000 1 Queens County Handicap, on June 8; the ; ,000 Shevlin, a stepping stone to the ■ Dwyer, on June 10; the ,500 Carter Handicap, on June 13; the ,000 Astoria, on June 17; the ,000 Tremont, on June ; 20; the ,000 Gazelle, on June 24, and the ! ,000 Great American, on June 27.
