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Empire City Meet Opens At Jamaica Track Today Polynesian Concedes Ten Rivals Weight in Fleetwing Handicap JAMAICA, L. I., N. Y., June 22. The Metropolitan racing scene shifts back to Jamaicas compact, but popular oval for a six-week stand on Monday, the first four weeks being under the auspices of the Empire City Racing Association and the final fortnight being the first phase of the Saratoga meeting before the horses return to the Spa for a month for the first time since 1942. There are nine stakes on the Empire-at-Jamaica roster, starting with Mondays 0,000 Fleetwing Handicap for three-year-olds and upward at six furlongs. The highlights of the impending meeting are next Saturdays Empire City Stakes at a mile and three-sixteenths that may attract the champion Assault and the Butler which will be run at the same distance on July 13 for older horses. Both of these tests carry 0,000 in added money. Judging from the way Mondays races filled, fields will be considerably larger at the Metropolitan Jockey Club track than they have been at Aqueduct, which is not too popular with horsemen. The smallest field on opening day is nine, there being two such tests while in the Fleetwing Handicap, 11 are slated to start. The field is headed by Mrs. P. A. B. Wideners Polynesian, winner of last years Preakness and Withers and now one of the top sprinters in training. The son of Unbreakable will carry 132 pounds and be ridden by Wayne D. Wright. John B. Thealls King Dorsett, who is in good form, is next in line with 120 followed by Pentagon Stables The Doge, 116; Brookmeade Stables Safeguard, 115; C. V. Whitneys Recce, 113; Edward Laskers Flood Town and Jay Paleys Best Effort, 110; Paleys Inroc, 108; George G. Gilberts Scholarship, 106; William Ziegler Jr.s Breezing Home, 102 and William Helis Lycos, also 102.
