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Hypnotic Favored at Route of Gazelle Earshot Top Rival In Aqueduct Stake Red Shoes to Carry Equal Top Impost of 121 Pounds With Belair Studs Filly AQUEDUCT, L. I., N. Y., June 19. Three-year-old fillies occupy the spotlight at Aqueduct tomorrow when eight of them Vie for a 0,000 prize in the Gazelle Stakes at a mile and a sixteenth. This is a venerable fixture, inaugurated in 1887, and will be having its fifty-first running. In years past the Gazelle has been won by such memorable, fillies and future broodmares as Firenze, who captured the inaugural at the old Gravesend track; Beldame, Mask-ette, Regret, Flambino, Bateau, Regal Lily, Fairy Chant, Tangled, Vagrancy and Whirlabout, with the more recent laureates not having quite the same luster in the memory of the old-timers as those who captured the Gazelle before World War I. The field for the Gazelle is headed by Belair Studs Hypnotic, winner of the Coaching Club American Oaks, and Howell E. Jacksons Red Shoes, with 121 each. William Helis Earshot, winner of the Acorn Stakes, gets in with 116, the same burden assigned Belairs Bonnie Beryl, a stablemate of Hypnotic. Then there is a quartet with 111 each composed of Col E R. Bradleys Bridal Flower, Hal Price Headleys Forgetmenow, Robert Greens Station, and W. Goadby Loews Highfor-tidies. Earshot Successful in Acorn Hypnotic will probably be a strong favorite in the Gazelle on the strength of her victories in the Oaks and a romping six-length score in an overnight race here last week, in which she had Bridal Flower and Forgetmenow behind her. There were some bad races sandwiched between these scores but the daughter of Hypnotist n. Valkyr will be again racing over her home track. However, Valkyr has produced a number of nimble but erratic racers before Hypnotic, notably Vicar and Vicaress. After winning the one-mile Acorn in good style, Earshot went up against older females in the Top Flight Handicap at Belmont and finished fourth, after running in close quarters in the stretch. Such capable mares as Sicily, Surosa and Recce were before her in that test. Incidentally, Earshot will be saddled by A. Skelton, a new trainer in the Helis entourage. Of the others Red Shoes is a fast filly, but may be inclined to bear out on the sharp Aqueduct turns. On the other hand Bonnie Beryl may be better than a mere running mate for Hypnotic and was generally rated several pounds the better of the two earlier in the season. Bridal Flower is an honest filly, but there is no logical reason to suppose she can turn the tables on either Hypnotic or Earshot, while Station and Highfortidies would have to improve considerably. There are some notable absentees from the Gazelle, among them Maine Chance Farms Beaugay, who is expected to soon return to the races at Chicago; Edward Laskers Athene, who is training steadily but looking for slightly easier engagements for her next appearance, and A. C. Ernsts Aladear, who just missed here the other day, but against somewhat inferior company. It is, actually, rather easier to catalog the absentees from the eligible lists of New York stakes just now than the probable starters. Among those nominated to Saturdays 0,000 Brooklyn Handicap who are not likely to appear are such as Fighting Step, First Fiddle, Reply Paid, Con-cordian, Buzfuz and Best Effort. Injuries and competition from other tracks have approximately an equal responsibility for their absence from the Brooklyn, in which Stymie, Pindus and Gallorette are the only probables, with Burning Dream and Dock-stader possibilities.
