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iron Shot Concedes Five Rivals Weight In Hitchcock Steeplechase Handicap Meadow Brook Winner Spots Caddie Eighteen Pounds and Others Bigger Concessions ConcessionsAQUEDUCT AQUEDUCT L I N Y June 12 A change in the condition book has advanced the steeplechasers into the spotlight at Aqueduct tomorrow the Hitchcock Chase Handicap had been moved up from Wednesday when it would have been over ¬ shadowed by what promises to be the most interesting renewal of the Tremont Stakes for juveniles in several years This 6000 test for the leppers has drawn a half dozen to contest the issue at two and one half miles milesTop Top weight and probable favorite for the Hitchcock which is named for the late great developer of steeplechasers Thomas Hitchcock Sr is young Miss Ella Wid eners Iron Shot who will carry i63 pounds This gray son of Chance Shot has raced consistently well in New York this season After beating a good field at Bel ¬ mont Park he succumbed narrowly to Brother Jones in the Corinthian Steeple ¬ chase then came back to beat that clever jumper decisively in the Meadow Brook Steeplechase at tomorrows distance In that race he had 159 pounds up and was ridden with more confidence by the veteran N Brown than in his two previous efforts effortsInvader Invader Dangerous Fencer FencerTwo Two of Iron Shots rivals tomorrow fin ¬ ished behind him in the Meadow Brook in their last starts They are Rokeby Stables Caddie who ran fourth beaten a dozen lengths and Parma who was fifth a sim ¬ ilar margin behind Caddie Caddie bene ¬ fits by an appreciable weight shift getting in tomorrow with 145 pounds and receiving 18 pounds from Iron Shot instead of nine Parma carries the same 135pound impost he toted unsuccessfully on May 31 and only benefits by the fourpound increase on iron Shot It will take more than that to make the slowstarting Gambrill chaer a factor factorThe The others in the Hitchcock are Mrs A fjiftrirs fnvarior 149 fi TT Ti cf picks Bridlespur 133 and Montpeliers BavEiriari 131 Invader made his 1944 debut here at Aqueciuct pin vme 8 in a race h cleverly by fils sTablemaB Tfte Beak He rah an even raceSnd finished fourth
