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Brooklyn Final Feature at Aqueduct Handicap Stars Meet Saturday In 0,000 Distance Fixture ► Market Wise, Devil Diver, Attention and Don Bingo Are Regarded as Probables AQUEDUCT, L. I., N. Y., June 19.— The Brooklyn Handicap, mid-summer annual fixture inherited from Gravesend by the Queens County Jockey Club, will have its fifty-fifth running as the stellar attraction of the final week of the Aqueduct meeting, beginning Monday. Though it has shared Long Islands large jolony of big name" horses ./ith Chicago, the local associations richest stake may boast a full complement of the turf boxoffice entertainers among the dozen or so who appear to be probables at the moment. The Marise Farms 00 bargain. Market Wise, is top weight in handicapper Jack Campbells estimates with 128 pounds and is expected to ba "among those present when the bugle blows for this 0,000 added iun of a milo and a quarter next Saturday. Mrs. Payne Whitney, first lady of the American turf, owns the next two in the weight arrangement, Shut Out, who is assigned 124 pounds, and Devil Diver, who has 123. Shut Outs condition has improved encouragingly in recent days, but whether he can be up to accepting this engagement depends. Devil Diver, winner of the Toboggan. Metropolitan and Carter, looms formidably as one of the favorites, if not the choice. Don Bingo Suburban Winner Other distinguished prospective starters are William Helis 5,000 beauty. Attention, who has 121 pounds and was beaten the merest nose by Whirlaway in the 1942 Brooklyn, and Binglins colorful, broken-tailed Latin-American, Don Bingo, who so astonished all but the most headlong figure filberts when he won the Suburban from end to end. Don Bingo is to pick up a bit of weight, carrying 113. Still other more or les luminous stars in the constellation that will shine on Long Island through the height of Chicagos lavish mid-summer season and who are expected to put in an appearance for the Brooklyn are Tom Heards Boysy at 112, Charles Howards Mioland, A. J. Sacketts Tola Rose and Greentrees The Rhymer at the same notch; Belairs queenly Vagrancy, under 110; W. L. Branns Pictor, 109, and Glen Riddles Soldier Song and Belairs Trierarch at an unflattering 104 each. From all of which, it seems assured this ensuing Brooklyn will commensurate with the high standard for quality established in preceding renewals of the stake thereby incidentally contrasting sharply with the Dwyer. While the Brooklyn is the principal business of the week, in the breed improving experiments at the accessible course presided over by Theodore Knapp. it is not the lone stakes to be decided during that span. There are also the ,000 added Gazelle for three-year-old fillies at a mile and a sixteenth and the Hitchcock Steeplechase Handicap of similar value at the about two and a half miles distance on Wednesday. Also Run Great American This Week-End In addition there is the ,000 Great American for juveniles over the increased distance of six furlongs on the week-ends program after which the scene of local racing incidentally swings to Jamaica for Empires transplanted meeting. The Gazelle has a roster of 26 nominees, including most of the best of the rather mediocre three-year-old filly division, with the exception of Calumets Nellie L., and Hal Price Headleys Askmenow. Perhaps best recommended of the possibilities of 1943 form is King Ranchs long-winded, wasp-waisted miss Too Timely, heroine of the Coaching Club American Oaks. She will not especially fancy the less exacting mile and a sixteenth of this affair which puts more premium on speed than stamina, but the long Aqueduct home stretch is in her favor. Cain Hoys Best Risk, Glen Riddles Opera Singer, Millsdales La Reigh, George Wideners Stefanita and Pomrose. Joseph E. Wideners Fair Weather and Woodvales Miss Skylark are other prospective starters. The Great Americans 78 eligibles include George Wideners Lucky Draw, William Zieglers Great Ripple. Wheatleys Free Lance, Mrs. E. duPont Weirs Galactic, Alfred Vanderbilts Extra Base, Long-champs Grant Rice, Harry LaMontagnes Larky Day, Greentrees Stir Up, Victor Emanuels Surrogate and Joe W. Browns Ravenala. The Queens County Jockey Clubs meeting has been enormously successful, surpassing Belmonts spring season as to attendance and play and on many afternoons attracting larger gatherings even than for corresponding programs in 1942.
