Lake Forest Purse to Blue Skimmer; Eleven Promising Juveniles in Tremont: Burg-el-Arab May Be Post Favorite; Speedy Son of Boojum Vies With Dockstader, Poco Mas For ,500 Aqueduct Prize, Daily Racing Form, 1944-06-14

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Lake Forest Purse to Blue Skimmer SkimmerEleven SkimmerL L Eleven Promising Juveniles in Tremont BurgelArab Moy Be Post Favorite FavoriteSpeedy Speedy Son of Boojum Vies With Dockstader Poco Mas For 7500 Aqueduct Prize PrizeAQUEDUCT AQUEDUCT L I N Y June 13 The 7500 Tremont Stakes for twoyearold colts and geldings will have its fiftysecond running at Aqueduct tomorrow Eleven promising juveniles will contest this tradi ¬ tional five and onehalf furlongs dash Top weight in the Tremont will be carried by Greentree Stables Dockstader who must concede from six to 10 pounds to all of his rivals except Poco Mas One of those to whom the son of Mr Bones must give a half dozen pounds is Col C V Whitneys Burg elArab who will probably be the favorite favoriteThe The Burgler caused a sensation in his lone start down the Belmont straight course when he sped over the four and onehalf furlongs with the greatest of ease pulling up in 5l one of the two fastest times of the meeting and leaving Great Power Sewickley Introvert Cracker Dust and six others far behind him That time was equalled by Col E R Bradleys Big Seal in a later race on that same program but the Derbymans colt turned in a much less flashy performance though also win ¬ ning with ease easeThe The main problem to be solved in con ¬ nection with BurgelArab is whether or not he can get around the sharp Aqueduct turns without running to the outside fence At Belmont he ran straight and true down the inside rail but he is a big longstriding colt by Boojum and his sire often wasted his terrific speed by running out a charac ¬ teristic he has transmitted to most of his offspring offspringEqualled Equalled Pimlico Track Record RecordDockstader Dockstader tired badly in his first two starts at Jamaica then went to Churchill Downs where he won once and was second in his next outing Continuing his travels the Greentree colt went to Pimlico where he equalled the Pimlico track record for five furlongs driving to the wire in 100 and beating such as Hoop Jr Bourtai Kewey Dee Don Chance and others He has demonstrated that he can skim the rail when going around a turn and is sure sureContinued Continued on Page Three Eleven Male Juveniles Seek Tremont Stakes StakesBurgelArab BurgelArab Faces Dockstader at Five Furlongs on Aqueduct Strip StripContinued Continued from Page One Oneto to have considerable support tomorrow de ¬ spite the weight concessions he is making makingOn On paper the above pair appear to dom ¬ inate this running of the Tremont The others are J M Roeblings Wild Life who will run coupled with The Burglar under 108 pounds the Mrs Floyd WestBluebird Stock Farm entry of Our Candidate and Poco Mas with 112 and 118 pounds re ¬ spectively Joe W Browns pair of Junior Atlas and King Dorsett 112 each Miss Gertrude Donovans Fighting Don William Zeigler Jrs Esteem Mill River Stables Talook and H McL Fenwicks Hillyer Court all with 108 The latter group are all maidens as is Wild Life LifeIt It is quite possible that BurgelArab Dockstader or one of their less familiar rivals will lower the track standard in the Tremont tomorrow tomorrowOur Our Candidate Junior Lass Hillyer Court and King Dorsett have each won a single race in modest company and dis ¬ played enough quality to take advantage of any lapses on the part of the favorite Poco Mas has won a trio of races including the LaFayette Stakes at the Keenelandat Churchill meeting but appears to have lost his early season form In his last start he finished ninth in the Dover Stakes at Del ¬ aware Park won by Sole Parate ParateAmong Among the maidens Talook and Esteem are highly regarded by their connections and have shown flashes of speed suggest ¬ ing they may improve with experience The Tremont appears basically a twohorsa race between The Burglar and Dock ¬ stader


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