Nine Juveniles Seek Banquet Purse: Five of Group Are Engaged in Stakes; Greek Blond Enters Todays Aqueduct Dash With Record Of Three Straight Victories, Daily Racing Form, 1948-06-22

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Nine Juveniles Seek Banquet Purse Five of Group Are Engaged in Stakes StakesGreek Greek Blond Enters Todays Aqueduct Dash With Record Of Three Straight Victories VictoriesAQUEDUCT AQUEDUCT L I N Y June 21 Two yearolds occupy the spotlight at Aqueduct tomorrow with the 5000 Banquet Purse at five and a half furlongs heading the program Five of the nine youngsters named are liberally engaged in stakes to be run later in this meeting and several of them have raced well enough recently to make it a wideopen contest contestHugh Hugh McL Fenwicks Greek Blond the only filly in the field is being sent postward in this engagement instead of Wednes ¬ days Astoria a race in which she would probably have to do less to win more though she was unbeaten in her three Flor ¬ ida starts It would be no great surprise if she were scratched from this dash in favor of the filly stake stakeThe The other four stakes nominees in the Banquet are all engaged in the Tremont to be run on July 7 These are B F Whit akers Prince Quest Circle M Farms Foray Vina Addison Stables Arise and H Acker bergs Blue Counselor Prince Quest won his last start at Belmont beating a big field Foray Vina was a good winner in Florida and raced well in his two attempts at Belmont while Arise was a brilliant win ¬ ner at Jamaica Blue Counselor also raced cleverly at the Metropolitan Jockey Club track trackOthers Others in Dash DashThe The others in this dash are Swap Out Uncle Edgar Bold Leader and Nifty Swap Out won his debut cleverly then finished second behind the capable Ennobled The King Ranch colt made both his appearances on the Belmont straightaway and has drawn the outside post position tomorrow That is a decided disadvantage at Aque ¬ duct most horses being inclined to bear out on the sharp turn and those on the outside going very wide indeed indeedUncle Uncle Edgar won his last start a claimer for G C Winfrey WinfreyMost Most of the other races on tomorrows program have drawn large fields with 20 having been named overnight in the fourth and seventh events eventsC C V Whitneys Blue Falcon is to make his debut over hurdles in the third race and the effort will be watched with in ¬ terest as the gray colt has plenty of speed and may be an important addition to the jumping ranks


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