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Temple Gwathmey To Bring Out Nine NineMiller Miller Pair of War Battle Elkridge to Meet Adaptable Fleettown and Floating Isle IsleBELMONT BELMONT PARK Elmont L I N Y June 15 The 15000 Temple Gwathmey Steeplechase Handicap at about two miles and a half heads the second and final day of the United Hunts meeting at Belmont Park tomorrow Thursday the scene shifts to Aqueduct where the Queens County Jockey Club will hold forth through July 17 with 11 stakes on the agenda agendaNine Nine have been named for the Temple Gwathmey with Kent Miller again enter ¬ ing both War Battle and Elkridge one of whom will probably go postward Miller has entered both of his former steeplechase champions in every jumping stakes for the past two or three seasons and almost in ¬ variably scratched one of them usually the one with the higher impost War Battle who was voted last seasons steeplechaser of the year has 160 to carry while Elk ¬ ridge gets in with 151 151The The Miller pair will be opposed by Miss Ella Wideners Adaptable 150 and Chance Bullet 132 Brookmeade Stables Fleettown 150 Auburn Stables Floating Isle 140 Robert W Grants Sun Bath also 140 Mrs Esther duPont Weirs Canford 142 and G H Bostwicks Little Sammie 138 138Won Won Event Two Years Ago AgoNeither Neither War Battle nor Elkridge have yet displayed their dash elan zip or agility of previous seasons this spring but they com ¬ mand respect on their past records War Battle incidentally won the Temple Gwath ¬ mey two years ago and finished third in the Charles L Appleton Steeplechase behind The Heir and Fleettown in his last appear ¬ ance Elkridge was a tiring third behind Adaptable and Canford in the Meadow Brook Steeplechase last week and was pre ¬ viously beaten by Fleettown and The Heir in the Corinthian here hereAdaptable Adaptable has the best recent form of the Temple Gwathmey candidates having scored a mild upset in the Meadow Brook in which he jumped faultlessly and showed the same liking for a distance that he dis ¬ played in winning last years Grand Na ¬ tional This son of Blenheim II is one the public seems to refuse to believe in despite a series of brilliant efforts effortsFleettown Fleettown is expected to go to the front in the Temple Gwathmey as that is the only way he runs He fell when tiring after setting the pace in the Meadow Brook BrookSun Sun Bath may be the dark horse of the chase Bob Grants charge is a steady jumper who won his last start here in front running style and profited by the mistakes of his rivals as he cleared his fences in perfect style styleLarge Large fields have been named for the other seven races the most interesting of which is a sixfurlong dash for threeyear olds styled the Wheatley Hills Thirteen have been named for the sprint which marks the seasonal debut of Sidney Schup ers Black Prince a colt who won his only start last year and gave promise of being a stakes horse before suffering splints this spring springAqueduct Aqueduct offers the Queens County Handicap on Thursday and there is the interesting probability that Mrs Ethel D Jacobs Stymie will return to action in the mile and a sixteenth test The worlds richest horse has been training in brilliant style for the race
