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Ten Fillies Match Strides in Gazelle Hitchcock Is Also On Aqueduct Card Navigating and Fair Weather Carry Equal Top Imposts of 121 in Three-Year-Old Race Gazelle Stakes, ,000, Three-Year-Olds, Fillies, One and One-Sixteenth Miles. PP. Horse. Rider. Wt. 1 — Twin Lakes No Boy 112 2— Brittany T.Atkinson 115 3— Fair Weather No Boy 121 4 — Anthemion J. Gilbert 112 5 — Legend Berer B.Thompson 112 6 — Stefanita C. McCreary 118 7 — Dairy. Lady J. Renick 112 8— Best Risk S.Brooks 112 9 — Navigating No Boy 121 10 — Sparkling Md T.Atkinson 112 J. M. Roebling and C. V. Whitney entry — Twin Lakes, Brittany. AQUEDUCT, L. I., N. Y., June 22— The final mid-week bill of turf affairs at Aqueducts waning summer season is garnished with two ,000 stakes features, the Gazelle, for three-year-old fillies, at a mile and a sixteenth, and the Hitchcock Steeplechase Handicap, over the exacting distance of about two miles and % half, through the field. Each has, coincidentally, drawn a promised field of 10 starters and indicates what turf enthusiasts call "an open-betting race." This recompenses for a lack of any entrant of noteworthy box-office appeal. Under the conditions of the Gazelle, Wheatley Stables Navigating and Joseph E. Wideners Fair Weather, stakes winners of the 1942 season, carry top weight of 121 pounds apiece, conceding from three to nine pounds to each of the others in a field that contains no pronounced choice. The former jockey Andy Schuttinger proposes to saddle no fewer than three of his charges in J. M. Roeblings Twin Lakes and Brittany and Lt. Col. C. V. Whitneys Legend Bearer. The remaining entrants are Mrs. E. C. Salsburys Sparkling Maid, Cain Hoy Stables Best Risk, Mrs. W. Plunket Stewarts Dairy Lady, George D. Wideners Stefanita, and Anthemion, who performs for C. T. Chenery. * Forty-Seventh Running of Fixture None of these fillies has set any woods ablaze and it must remain for the running of the Gazelle to point to the best of a mediocre lot, much as in the case of last week-ends Dwyer renewal. It will be more interesting than inspiring. This will be the forty-seventh running of the Queens County Jockey Clubs most important summer annual for three -year-old fillies. It was inaugurated in 1887, when it was captured by the celebrated Firenze. That was at Gravesend, where the stake was decided until it was inherited by Aqueduct in 1917. The roster of Gazelle heroines include Amazon, Yorkville Belle, The Butterflies, Blue Girl, Beldame, Tradition, Maskette, Regret, Fairy Wand, Milkmaid, Pen Rose, Untidy, Priscilla Ruley, Nedana, Flambino, Bateau, Erin, Red Eye, Fairy Chant, Tangled and Vagrtmcy. If all the ten "marked down glamour girls" in this Gazelle actually appear, the winner will have earned ,775. This may prove to be George Wideners Stefanita, who is the only member o. the field with the slightest pretensions to rout« running form, having finished third to Mar-Kell in Belmonts Top Flight. Invader Topweighted The Hitchcock, a monument to the late Thomas Hitchcock, most successful of the "pillars of the chase" in recent American turf history, has attracted a well-balanced field that includes several fencers who have scintillated in past stakes. The entrant vested with the unsolicited honor of top weight in handicapper Fred Parks estimates is Invader, who must shoulder a steadier of 150 pounds. There are two entries, Rokebys Good Chance and Redlands and the C. K. Bas-sett-Montpelier duo of Corrigan and Bavarian, not to mention Knights Quest, Cottesmore, Picture Prince, Iron Shot and Brother Jones. Parks obviously accounts the long-winded gray Iron Shot, who performs for Philadelphias sub-deb. Miss Ella Widener, as one of the more formidable rivals for Invader. He must carry 147 pounds, two more than the venerable Cottesmore, a double winner of Belmonts classical Grand National. On the whole, this Hitchcock promises a colorful and spirited contest in which most anything may happen and the mast unexpected very likely will, judging from the unformful results of previous hedge attractions hereabout. This will be the first renewal of the Hitchcock. The inaugural in 42 was captured by Mrs. Ogden Phipps superb fencer Bath, who was coincidentally developed by Hitchcock. The winner of this Hitchcock will earn a tidy ,600 net if all ten face starter George Cassidy.
