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Quizzle Proves Repeater at Lincoln Ten Fleet Fillies to Contest Astoria Mrs Ames Cocppef In Aqueduct Stake StakeDonitas Donitas First and Sea Reigh Likewise Unbeaten Are Also Included in Feature Field Astoria Stakes 5000 Two Year Olds Fillies Five and OneHalf Furlongs PP Horse Jockey Wt WtNo 1 Ebony Wave No Boy 113 113W 2 Sea Reigh W WMehrt Mehrtens 113 113G 3 Cocopet G Woolf 116 116No 4 Everget No Boy 113 113T 5 Mrs Ames T Atkinst Atkinson 122 122S 6 Fire Sticky S Brooks 113 7 Chic Shirley No Boy 111 8 Parasun C McCreary 113 9 Miss Biscuit A Robertson 113 10 Donitas First TAtkinson 113 Lazy F Ranch entry Sea Reigh Co copet Longchamps Farm entry Mrs Ames Dinitas First AQUEDUCT L I NY June 15 It is no exaggeration to say Aqueducts 5000 Astoria renewal Wednesday promises to de ¬ velop the most important twoyearold filly race this far in the 1943 turf season The ten starlets named for this five and a half furlongs include some of the smartest new ¬ comers of the sex in Longchamps Mrs Ames and Donitas First and the Lazy F Ranchs Cocopet and Sea Reigh None was beaten in their several previous starts startsIf If only these four were to appear the Astoria would be a contest well warranting racing enthusiasts interesf Also passing through the entry box were seven more or less promising members of the age and sex division in C S Howards Ebony Wave Brandywines Everget Grant Thorns Fire Sticky Amedee Jeanfreaus Chic Shirley George Wideners Parasun and Mill Rivers Miss Biscuit BiscuitWoolf Woolf to Ride Cocopet CocopetMrs Mrs Ames is the most distinguished of the field for the gather striking reason she captured the Fashion and National Stallion at Belmont Parks recent spring meeting in I what were her only appearances under col j ors to this point in her career Mrs Ames is to be ridden by Atkinson and will be heavily supported in an open betting race among the Longchamps and Lazy F fillies despite top weight of 122 pounds which requires her to concede from six pounds to Cocopet and Chic Shirley to nine to each of the others othersCocopet Cocopet has won each of three starts and will be ridden by George Woolf and may be the favorite at the weights She sparkled over the swiftest five furlongs out outContinued Continued on Page TwentySeven Ten Fleet Fillies Meet In Renewal of Astoria AstoriaMrs Mrs Ames Cocopet Sea Reigh And Donitas First in LineUp LineUpContinued Continued from Page One Oneof of the chute at the Belmont spring meeting in her latest essay and worked smartly around Aqueducts hairpin turn for the As ¬ toria her initial stakes opportunity opportunityThough Though the gray Cocopet is a natural runner and has been made a supplemental eligible for the Arlington Lassie there is a disposition among many racing men to think perhaps her running mate Sea Reigh is a stouter miss This one is trained by Max Hirsch Cocopet by O T Dubasoff DubasoffSea Sea Reigh has not won so consummately as has Cocopet but is a game thing who drew her recent successful sally at Aque ¬ duct unnecessarily fine fineThe The Astoria is among New York racings most timehonored juvenile filly features J G Follansbees Astarita having captured its inaugural in 1902 Since then it has been won by such easily remembered fillies as Sue Smith Ocean Bound Panoply Flu vanna Maud Muller Edith Cavell Pandra One Hour Disdainful Tangled and Now What WhatAn An interesting sidelight of this parti ¬ cular Astoria aside from so many as yet unbeaten fillies is that Donitas Firsts dam Donita M captured the 1938 renewal for Henry Lustig LustigIf If all the ten promised start the winner will have earned a tidy 5625 5625Sea Sea Reigh Cocopet and Mrs Ames were rather lucky in the draw for post positions breaking from stalls numbers two three and five respectively Donitas First is on the extreme outside outsideThe The days secondary offering is the Cag liostro Hurdle Handicap of 2500 added at a mile and threequarters Nine were named for this feature among them such familiar entertainers through the field as Mrs F Ambrose Clarks The Beak and Top Milk and the rapid Rouge Dragon It should provide an interesting contest and one that will not militate against the size of the days tote handle
