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• Open Aqueduct Meet at Belmont; Only Four Vie in Queens County Knapp Says Work at Home * Track Will Be Completed Within One Weeks Time BELMONT PARK. Elmont, L. I., N. Y., June 1 . — Racing continues at Belmont Park for at least another week, labor troubles and shortage of materials making necessary the transplanting of at least the first week of the 18-day meeting which the Queens County Jockey Club was scheduled to open at Aqueduct on Monday. Theodore Knapp, president of the Queens County Jockey Club, said today that work was progressing rapidly at Aqueduct and that he was confident racing would be staged on the home grounds a week from Monday Other observers believe the track to be at least 10 days away from readiness. There are nine stakes on the Aqueduct agenda, including two 0,000 added events of considerable significance. These are the Dwyer on June 15 and the Brooklyn Handicap on closing day, June 22. The Dwyer, which was formerly known as the Brooklyn Derby, is a semi-classic test for three-year-olds at a mile and a quarter and has almost always drawn the leaders of the division, while the Brooklyn ranks with the Suburban as one of Americas outstanding handicap events. The latter test, which is for three-year-olds and upward, is also at ten furlongs. Gazelle Feature of June 20 The other stakes on the schedule are the 0,000 Queens County Handicap, which heads Mondays card, the 0,000 Shevlin on Wednesday, the Astoria, for juvenile fillies and the Carter Handicap for older horses, next Saturday, both worth 0,000 in added money; the 0,000 Tremont and Great American of the same value for juveniles on June 12 and June 19, both Wednesdays, and the 0,000 Gazelle Stakes for fillies on Thursday, June 20. These races have traditionally attracted the best horses in training in the East to Aqueduct and the fact that all, or most of them will be run at Belmont will certainly not diminish the quality of the fields. However, Mondays County drew a rather disappointing band of only four, none of which are precisely world beaters. The quartet is composed of Greentree Stables Coincidence, 114; Sunshine Stables Lets Dance, 112; W. Goadby Loews Helioptic, 111, and Jule Finks Alison Peters, 107. The group will vie at a mile and a sixteenth. Past runnings of the Queens County have fallen to such stars as Old Rosebud, Roamer, John P. Grier, Grey Lag, Zev, Mad Hatter, Mad Play, Halcyon, King Saxon, Snark, War Admiral and First Fiddle. Anyone of those winners, and a few of the others not mentioned, would be odds-on to beat tomorrows field. This edition of the Queens County may well turn out to be a thrilling race to watch, however, as the field appears exceptionally well-matched. Lets Dance is a vastly improved horse, and there are some observers who believe that he is now a better horse than his more illustrious stable-mate, Buzfuz. Coincidence is also in fine form, while Alison Peters won his last start here and Helioptic may do some running in the stretch.
