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Thirteen to Vie for Brooklyn Honors Sixteen Face Calumets Money Champion in Arlington Fixture • Carries 126 Pounds as He * Meets Rounders, Marriage, Aletern, Best Seller, Ended HOMEWOOD, 111., June 25.— The most powerful field of thoroughbreds to be brought together in Chicago thus far this i summer is scheduled to, meet in the Arlington Park Jockey Clubs Equipoise Mile, a 0,000 event of eight furlongs that will top the first Saturday program of the current meeting at Washington Park tomorrow and the best that has been offered in Chicago this season. Seventeen four-year-I olds and older horses, including the worlds money-earning champion and American handicap king, Whirlaway, were listed today as starters and if the track remains fast it is probable that all except two or three of them will answer the call to the post. Surrounding the Calumet Farm star in the race which honors the memory of the horse who set a worlds mile record at Arlington Park in 1932 are a number of horses who will battle him later in such 0,000 specials as the Stars and Stripes, Arlington and Washington Park Handicaps, also to be run here. Among them are Valdina Farms Rounders, who whipped j Whirlaway in the Arlington Handicap last [summer; Coward and Du Puy:s Marriage, who hung a similar defeat on Alsab in the Washington Park Handicap a year ago; Galbreath and Diensts Best Seller, hero of the 1942 running of the Equipoise Mile; A. C. Ernsts Aletern, handicap sensation of the recent Lincoln Fields meeting and the Mill B Stables Ended, fresh from a smart victory in the Myrtlewood Handicap, the opening day feature here last Monday. Mayer Enters Thumbs Up, Kings Abbey Besides there are such other notable members of the handicap division as L. B. Mayers Thumbs Up and Kings Abbey, R. S. McLaughlins Fairaris, A. T. Simmons Harvard Square, John L. Sullivans Air Master, Walmac Farms Bushwhacker, John M. Hutchins Woof Woof and A. S. Hewitts Some Chance. Much interest will attach to the performance of Whirlaway in this, his second start of the year. In his first, several days ago, he ran third to his stablemate, Mar-Kell and Kings Abbey and, while fans were somewhat let down with his effort, his trainer, Ben A. Jones, was satisfied that the race was just what he needed to place him back in tip-top form. And indeed, he may need to be in his best form to win tomorrow what with such a formidable array opposing him and with his top impost of 126 pounds, under which he must concede from 8 to 25 pounds to his rivals. Rated next to Whirlaway in the weight assignments is Rounders, one of the stars of New Orleans racing last winter and poised for his first start of the Chicago season. His burden tomorrow will be 118 pounds, one more than was assigned Marriage, the erstwhile plater who rises periodically to whip the best the handicap division can muster. Also sure to be the cynosure of many eyes tomorrow will be Aletern, who so easily won the Peabody Memorial and La Salle Handicaps at Hawthorne before being transferred here. He won these races in one-sided fashion against the best horses at Hawthorne, and it will be interesting to see how he fares against the most powerful Continued on Page Two Brooklyn Handicap Attracts Thirteen Market Wise and Greentree Trio to Vie in Route Event — Four in Great American Coiitinued from Page One for Salto and Trierarch and a feathery 102 on War Hazard. Fillies and mares have been singularly unsuccessful in Brooklyn annals, which lends some academic interest to the appearances of Vagrancy and War Hazard. There are three couplings in the Brooklyn with the final size and personnel of the starting field being contingent to a degree upon track conditions. In addition to the Greentree trio, Attention has a running mate in Salto, while Jockey Club chairman Woodward is represented by the gray Trierarch as well as by Vagrancy. If the entire 13 parade the winner of this time-mellowed fixture will accrue a net purse of 4,200. Lucky Draw looms an even more confidently backed public choice for the Great American than does the Greentree representatives in the Brooklyn. This blocky-built and rapid Jack High gelding now has placed the Youthful, Juvenile and Tre-m it to his account on Long Island during the first half of the 1943 turf season He did not win the Tremont quite so emphatically as had been generally anticipated, however, and in the Great American carries 122 to 113 on Ravenala and the La Montagne and Longchamps duo of Larky Day and Dance Team. The added weight and distance lend the Great American its interest, while with four runners it carries a net value to the victor of ,475. This highly entertaining half-holiday program will terminate Aqueducts most-successful early summer turf season. With j a fair break in weather, it is confidently predicted that some 30,000 will attend the Brooklyn, which is easily the most promising event of the entire 18 days. Following this program, the scene of Metropolitan New York racing will be transferred to more aeeessible Jamaica, where the Empire City Associations annual July session of 24 days is to be presented. Foxbrough Returns to Turf Wars As per his delightful custom, racing sec-retary-handicapper J. B. Campbell has ar-ragned an unexpected treat in the form of a seven-furlong class "C" handicap that has attracted 11 smart performers, including Belair Studs internationally famed Foxbrough. This brother of Gallant Fox and Fighting Fox, hors de combat for nearly two years, will embark upon the comeback trail in the Happy Scot, as this handicap is styled. The Celt last Monday afforded something of a Brooklyn preview, so far as concerns Shut Out, Market Wise and Attention, its only three starters. Attention essayed unsuccessfully to win from flag fall to finish in that mile and a furlong contest, while Market Wise as futilely attempted to come from behind in his characteristic stretch rally, both at a more advantageous weight arrangement than obtains in the Brooklyn. While the Celt proclaimed Shut Out "the one to beat" in this week-end feature, several Brooklyn entrants commanding respect were absentees from the Monday public trial. One of these is Don Bingo, who surely is a factor warranting some consideration at his relatively low impost of 113 pounds. Another is Shut Outs limning mate. Devil Diver, whom a small coterie of observers still prefer to the more renowned son of Equipoise. It should be a Brooklyn to remember and one it seems improbable any ordinary thoroughbred may win.
