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Shut Out Scores in Prep for Brooklyn Beats Market Wise In First 1943 Win Favored Attention Is Last — Greentree Colt Displays Old-Time Form at Aqueduct AQUEDUCT, L. I., N. Y., June 21.— Shut Out, leading money-winning thoroughbred of the 1942 turf season, recovered his best form at Aqueduct this afternoon and almost certainly raced his way into favoritism for Saturdays 0,000 added Brooklyn Handicap as he administered a decisive beating to Marise Farms Market Wise and William Helis Attention. Only these big "name" horses appeared for the mile and a furlong of the Celt Purse and it produced one of the more interesting races of the 1943 season on Long Island. Mrs. Payne Whitneys colorbearer pegged the pace of Attention to the hot corner" then flashed by under Woolfs urging and repelled Market Wises vaunted stretch charge by a length and a half in a flat 1:51. The course record is Whir la ways 1 :49% and Shut Out had two distinguished members of the "I Beat Whirlaway Club" behind at the stand. Shut Out was the outsider in the field, paying .40 while Attention went away at odds-on. Basing their calculations on the Brooklyn weights, the crowd seemed to deduce Attention, the 5,000 "Louisiana Purchase", enjoyed th/e best of the imposts with 114 to 123 on Market Wise and 122 on the winner. Picks Up Only Two Pounds in Brooklyn A factor that will not be lost on form students when the bugle blows for the Brooklyn is that Shut Out picks up only two pounds, Market Wise five and Attention seven. The Monday attendance was extraordinarily large, counting 17,497 * at the turnstiles and included Col. E. R. Bradley, Wm. Helis, Tony Pelleteri and a number of other noted turf figures. In addition to the unusually attractive overnight feature, the bill developed a prospective rival for Lucky Draw in Saturdays Great American in tlm shapely form of the King Ranchs Morani. Shut Out looked rather better after his freshening than when he was being humbled with such appalling consistency at Belmont Park and performed in a fashion that was most gratifying to trainer Johnny Gaver. The late Equipoises two most distinguished sons went away from the gate on Continued on Page Tliree Shut Out Qualifies For Rich Brooklyn Soundly Beats Market Wise And Attention in His First Win of Season at Aqueduct Continued from Page One the front stretch outrunning Market Wise several lengths and Longden let the light-weighted Attention sally to the front, opening up a couple of lengths on Mrs. Whitneys four-year-old. Woolf had a loose rein on the latter around the paddock turn and through the far side to remain within striking distance. Attention, who . has more speed than stamina, began to shorten stride straightening into the long home stretch and at this juncture Shut Out was steadily diminishing his advantage. At the furlong pole, the Greentree colt was a length before the limber Louisianan and now Market Wise was beginning to charge from about three lengths away and on the outside. Woolf was not oblivious to this danger and kept at Shut Out with hand and heel, with the result he held Market Wise perfectly safe the final sixteenth mile, despite Nodarses victorious drive aboard the pride of Jamaica. What all this sparring on the level went to show wast that Shut Out is again Shut Out and is "the one to beat" in the Brooklyn at the weights. The fractions were: :24*5, :4835, 1:1325, and 1:38% and the track, of course, was dry and fast. Morani Graduates Morani. earned his racing diploma in a field of seven other maiden two-year-old colts and geldings that furnished plenty of action for five and a half furlongs in the fourth event. The King Ranch colt, ridden by Mehrtens, went to the front at the break, shook off Hoodoo and then repelled the highly fancied Stymie by a length in 1 :QV/S. Hoodoo, a first time starter, should appreciate the education gained in this affair in which he tired and was third. Morani. a Great American eligible, paid a large following .30. Mrs. E. Mulrenans Red Blossoms, ridden by Johnny Longden, caught Arnold Hangers Que Hora, who was piloted by Mehrtens, in the final furlong of the five and a half furlongs comprising the distance of the fifth event, and dead heated him for first money. This affair was a division of the fourth, won by Morani, in time a fifth of a second faster, or 1:07. Who Goes There, the favorite, finished in third place, three lengths off the two winners, after setting the pace to the stretch. Red Blossoms paid and Que Hora returned .90. Sanford Stud Farms once famous purple colors were flaunted to victory by Fair Crystal in the about a mile and a half of the Beelzebub Hurdle race, Willie Passmore rating him fairly close to Wallopers early pace, then moving to the front in the last quarter mile, to beat Rice Cake a length. Walloper lasted to be third. Fair Crystals elated backers collected 5.80 for . Post Haste was a dismal favorite, failing to raise a gallop. The time was 2:4635, a fairish run for these horses.
