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Aqueduct Sport to Home Track; Assault to Seek Dwyer Saturday Only Four Likely to Face * Triple Crown Winner in 0,000 Distance Fixture AQUEDUCT, L. I., N. Y., June 8.— Aqueduct returns to its home grounds on Rocka-way Boulevard pn Monday, improvements delayed by bad weather and labor difficulties having finally been completed at the Queens County Jockey Club course. These improvements consist mainly of a new bleachers and a row of trees along the backstretch, as well as additional sanitary facilities. There are two stakes on the agenda for the weeks to come, the 0,000 Tremont for juvenile colts and gelding at five and one-half furlongs on Wednesday, and the 0,-000 Dwyer Stakes at a mile and a quarter on Saturday. The Dwyer is expected to be enhanced by the final New York appearance of the summer of King Ranchs "Triple Crown" winner, Assault. The winner of the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes, not to mention the Wood Memorial and Experimental Handicap, is somewhat of a surprise candidate, it having been thought that the son of Bold Venture would be rested after his arduous campaign, but Assault has worked so well that trainer Max Hirsch intimated today that he plans sending him postward next Saturday. A victory in the Dwyer would put Assaults 1946 earnings far above Gallant Foxs record of 08,275 gleaned in a single year. The Texas-bred colt is only some 0,000 behind the record now, and his share of the Dwyer, even with the expected small field, will come to about 0,000. Lord Boswell to Try Again Maine Chance Farms Lord Boswell, who pressed Assault to a neck in the Preakness and was slightly favored over him in the Belmont, is expected to try once more to turn the litle giant. Other Dwyer probables are Mrs. Walter M. Jeffords Natchez, second in the Belmont; Foxcatcher Farms consistent Hampden, and Frank Frankels improved Hadrian. If more than five go postward it will be surprising and rather redundant. The Tremont is likely to attract Maine Chance Farms unbeaten Jet Pilot. The winner of the Pimlico Nursery and National Stallion Stakes will probably meet Allen T. Simmons Eternal War, winner of the Youthful and Juvenile Stakes and Brookmeade Stables Grand Admiral, as well as Colin MacLeods improved Useless and William Helis Cosmic Bomb. However, at this writing, the Tremont shapes up as a match between Jet Pilot and Eternal War and those two would be quite enough to make it an engrossing contest. Mondays program is headed by the ,000 Gravesend Purse, an allowance event for three-year-olds at a mile and a sixteenth. This test has drawn a field of five, including Robert McLaughlins Wind-fields and Lester Manor Stables Manor Lad, a pair of greatly improved colts. Manor Lad, incidentally, is a Dwyer possibility. The others in the Gravesend are William Helis Tidy Bid, John B. Thealls Islam Prince and Mrs. Alfred Roberts War Watch. All three of the horses have races in the book that would make them dangerous and the Gravesend promises to be a good contest from wire to wire, despite the small field. Windfields won his last two starts after a series of disappointing races. Islam Prince placed second to Hadrian in his last start which was his first appearance in some time, while Manor Lad and War Watch have been racing creditably against the best in the East. Tidy Bid also has speed but is something of a rogue.
