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Trio of Brooklyn Hopefuls Entered Compete at Route Today as Prep for Aqueducts Final 0,000 Week-End Feature AQUEDUCT, L. I., N. Y., June 24. The Aqueduct summer meeting enters its final week on Monday with two of the most interesting stakes of the New York season , on the agenda. On Wednesday there will j be the Great American Stakes, the first juvenile fixture of the New York season at six furlongs and carrying a 0,000 prize. . On Saturday Metropolitan turf fans will be offered another 0,000 fixture in the Brooklyn Handicap which will bring together the leading eastern handicap horses at a mile and a quarter. On Monday three of the Brooklyn candidates will meet in the : ,000 Longstreet Handicap at a mile and one-eighth. They are Boone Hall Stables Princequillo, 118 pounds; William Zieglers Wait a Bit, 114, and A. J. Sacketts Tola Rose, 106. This trio should provide a good contest. At the weights, Tola Rose can be very dangerous, as he has always been something of a "giant killer" and has showed improved form in recent starts. Wait a Bit has been running somewhat erratic all this season, but" shared the triple dead-heat in the Carter Handicap here recently, closing fast to get on level terms with Brownie and Bossuet. Princequillo set the early pace in the overnight race won by Four Freedoms from First Fiddle here the other day and did not insist once he was passed in the stretch. That was only his second start of the season and should have done him a lot of good. Ariel Lad in Secondary Offering The secondary feature on Mondays program is the Ahumada Handicap for class "C" horses at six furlongs and this has drawn a half dozen headed by the reasonably speedy Ariel Lad. The others in order of the weights are: Piccadilly, 120; Swim-min Hole, 118; Alforay, 117; Anibras, 112, and Fire Warden, 107. All of these sprinters with the exception of the last named, have raced well in New York this season and the race shapes up as one of handi-capper John B. Campbells tougher problems. Those who may oppose Princequillo, Wait a Bit and Tola Rose in the vastly richer Brooklyn on the week-end are Apache, Slide Rule, Great Rush, Ramillies, Four Freedoms, Boysy, Bankrupt, Alex Barth, First Fiddle and Stefanita. The Brooklyn, which long has been a highlight of the New York handicap roster, was inaugurated in 1887 when Emery and Co.s Dry Monople was the winner. Wednesdays Great American is expected to bring together the dream of the eastern juvenile crop, headed by Col. C. V. Whit-, neys unbeaten Burg-el-Arab and Miss Gertrude Donovans Fighting Don, who also has won his two starts and in the last of these showed even more speed than "the Burglar." Opposing this flashy pair will be such as A. A. Baronis Top General, a highly regarded colt; William Zieglers improving Esteem and Housatonic, Colonel Whitneys Hindu Kush, Cain Hoy Stables Conjuror, H. McL. Fenwicks Hillyer Court, Maine Chance Farms War Date, War Jeep and Greylord, and others too numerous to mention. While at first glance the Great American appears a duel between Burg-el-Arab and Fighting Don, at this stage of the year so many relatively untried colts are making their initial steps that a surprise would not astonish.
