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] , I , , * t j J . | , 1 ] j , I , 1 i | I • 1 , I , I l , 11 i ! ! Brookmeade Boasts Fashionable String Trainer Hugh Fontaine Has Twenty-Nine Head in Care; Ariel Game in Experimental NEW YORK, N. Y., April 6.— Trainer Hugh Fontaine has 29 thoroughbreds at Belmont Park for the fashionable Brookmeade Stable of Mrs. Dodge Sloane. Eleven of this imposing band are three-year-olds or older, and it is from this group that Jamaica patrons are likely to see some action. Fontaine reports that most of his 18 juveniles were recently coughing at Aiken, S. C, and are not likely to get to the races before the Belmont meeting in May. Ariel Game, a speedy black three-year-|old by Ariel — Play Dis, who showed promise in his 11 starts last season, may be the first to carry the white jacket with royal blue cross sashes this year. He is in next Wednesdays Experimental with only 108 pounds and might be ready. The other older horses in the spacious Brookmeade barns at the Long Island track are Bourmont, Great Rush, Smiles, Pressure, Devils Guide, Tudor King, Dare Me, Star Bound, Flash and Glittery. Weil-Bred Two-Year-Olds The Brookmeade two-year-old colts comprise Quick Control, chestnut colt, by Psychic Bid — Stepaway; Great Power, bay colt, by Blenheim n. — Royal Venture; Big Three, bay colt, by Challenger II. — Omayya; Sun Herod, chestnut colt, by Sun Teddy — The Damsel; Gay Bid, chestnut colt, by Psychic Bid — Grand Pageant; Patrician, chestnut colt, by Pompey — Parco; Antelope, gray colt, by Okapi— Significant; Hedgethorn, bay colt, by Firethorn — Polly Hundred ; Magnetic Star, bay colt, by Tint-agel — Bonne Etoile; Big Party, chestnut colt, by Grand Time — Sandra II.; Brave Bid, chestnut colt, by Psychic Bid — Kawita. The fillies are Katylea, bay filly, by Bull Lea — Katydid; Psychist, bay filly, by Psychic Bid — Handcuff; Singing Bid, chestnut filly, by Psychic Bid — Croonerette; Safeguard, chestnut filly, by Okapi — Guarded Queen; Smart Bit, gray filly, by Jack High Royal Bit; Winning Bid, chestnut filly, by Psychic Bid — Sun Mixa, and Gumdrop, brown filly, by Pharamond H. — Chicotta. There are many familiar names in the list of dams of these youngsters. Most of them were bred at the Brookmeade farm at Upperville, Va., but Patrician was a ,100 purchase, while Magnetic Star was acquired for ,100. It will be noted that the stakes winner, Dare Me, and her two-year-old brother, Big Three, are both out of Omayya, dam of Pomayya. The good race mare, Handcuff, also has a three-year-old and a juvenile in the Sloane string in Pressure and Psychist. Pressure did not race last year.
