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Queens County Handicap 5000 Three ThreeYearOlds YearOlds and Upward One Oneand and One Sixteenth Miles PP Horse Jockey 1 Full Cry No Boy 2 The Rhymer C McCreary 3 Blue Serge No Boy 4 Corydon C McCreary 5Our Boots No Boy 6 Kingfisher No Boy 7 Boysy J Cavens 8 Salto No Boy 9 Attention No Boy Greentree Stable entry The Rhymer and Corydon Wm Helis entry Salto and Attention Aqueduct Inaugurates 18Day Meeting Attention Entered In Queens County CountyEight Eight to Oppose Wm Hells Recent 55000 Purchase Blue Serge in Headliner AQUEDUCT L I N Y June 5 The New York turf scene will be removed to the Queens County Jockey Clubs 49yearold Aqueduct course Monday afternoon for the annual summers meeting of 18 days An impressive roster of nine valuable stakes are compressed entertainingly within that threeweek period chief of these being the 25000 Dwyer on the nineteenth and the 30000 Brooklyn on the twentysixth twentysixthThis This ensuing Aqueduct season is expected to prove unusually popular with Metropoli ¬ tan New Yorks thousands of avid thor ¬ oughbred enthusiasts for the parks en ¬ trance is on a regularly scheduled Long Island railroad stop stopMondays Mondays initial program is distinguished by the thirtyeighth running of the tradi ¬ tional 5000 added Queens County Handi ¬ cap a test of a mile and a sixteenth for threeyearolds and upward A classy field xof nine more or less accomplished members of New York extraordinary array of handi ¬ cap talent promises some spirited competi ¬ tion in this affair Top weight and probable favorite of the group is William Helis 55000 Louisiana purchase Attention who is burdened with 123 pounds and may have the swift and featherweighted sprinter Salto as a running mate under 103The 103 The Rhymer Burdened With 112 Pounds PoundsHandicapper Handicapper Campbell seems to find a marked difference in the capacity of Atten ¬ tion and most others of the field The sec ¬ ond top weight is Tommy Heards erstwhile 100 bargain Boysy under 114 Then conies Greentrees The Rhymer who sur ¬ vived pneumonia to capture a Widener Cup burdened with 112 L B Mayers Blue Serge and Woodvales Our Boots with 108 apiece The Rhymers running companion Corydon 106 Mrs Tilyou Christophers Kingfisher 105 and Mrs W O Hicks Full Cry with an indictment of 98 98The The recent form of all these entrants is too familiar to racegoers to warrant any exhaustive resume If all the nine actually appear the purse will net 4925 to the winner winnerThe The secondary Monday feature is Aqueducts version of the Spring Maiden Steeplechase an unique series of special events for aspiring hedge talent that qualify as maidens at the time the nomi ¬ nations close Nine familiar entertainers through the field will defy father time and the elements of gravity in this run of about two miles
