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Buckhorn Purse Brings Out Five Free Lance. Ariel Game and Appieknocker in Field for Aqueduct Route Headliner AQUEDUCT, L. L, N. Y., June 29. The Queens County Jockey Club is offering an unusually attractive Friday program for its next-to-last offering before the racing scene moves to the Empire-at-Jamaica meeting next Monday. The card of eight races is headed by the ,000 Buckhorn Purse for three-year-olds at a mile and one-sixteenth. This test has drawn a quintet of colts who have raced with credit against the leaders of the division. Four of them, Shut Up, Appieknocker, Ariel Flight and Ariel Game, will carry 113 pounds each, assuming that all of their pilots jean make that impost while Free Lance gets in with 109. The latter was a fortunate winner here earlier in the week, when all but one of his four rivals went wide at the head of the stretch and he managed to stave off Doggone in the closing drive to win by a head. Ariel Game will be seeking three straight since moving from the Brookmeade to the Vera S. Bragg stable. Appieknocker is not the most dependable colt in the land but has good recent form to recommend him in an open race. Free Lance Likely Choice Free Lance will probably be favored in the Buckhorn, if only because trainer Jim Fitzsimmons and apt Bobby Permane have been exceptionally "hot" the last few torrid days. Meanwhile, a field of 10 and possibly 12 is in prospect for Saturdays 0,000 Brooklyn Handicap at a mile and one-quarter. First Fiddle will be the top weight under 126 pounds followed by a "possible" in W. E. Boeings Slide Rule. The latter would have to carry 124 pounds in what will be his 1944 debut and though he has been working well, it seems hardly likely trainer Wilhelm will choose such a gruelling race for his first outing. Belair Studs Apache, one of the two or three fastest horses in training and who can sometimes go a route, is under 123 pounds and the son of Alcazar is expected to go postward. Boone Hall Stables Prince-quillo, who has shown little thus far this year but may suddenly improve, is a probable under 120 pounds. The next likely Brooklyn candidate is Greentree Stables Four Freedoms, who whipped First Fiddle in his last start and won the Widener Cup and Tropical Handicap last winter. He gets in with 116 pounds and may be accompanied to the post by a stablemate in Famous Victory, who is the light weight of the likely starters with 106 pounds.
