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Connors Corner By "CHUCK" CONNORS Chief of Chart Correspondents— BELMONT PARK, Elmont, L. I., N. Y., June 12. — The Queens County Jockey Club, operators of Aqueduct, through its official family this year will display a modicum of local pride. Heartened by the enthusiasm displayed by the Aqueduct residents when a horse trained over that track won a stake at another track, the house flag was hoisted to the peak of the tallest staff atop the grandstand and flown throughout the next day. During the summer meeting which follows Belmont Park something else will be added. Two flag poles about 50-feet high, located on each end of the "tote" board in the center-field, will be .erected next week. From one will be flown the national emblem while the other will be the daylight post of the Aqueduct house flag. This flag, following the success of an Aqueduct owned and trained horse, will be lowered and raised again, that is when the race is made official. The band will play an appropriate number which in time will become the theme song of the association. The Derby has My Old Kentucky Home, the Preak-ness, Maryland, My Maryland, the Belmont, the Sidewalks of New York, but the Queens County Association has a wide choice in the musical scale. Now if old Latonia was faced with a choice its selection would have been easy— Smoke Gets in Your Eyes. The veterans of racing at that track will long remember the billows from the coal-fired locomotives on the L. and N. Railroad that drifted across the track several times during the course of the afternoon. The Aqueduct clambake, which is for the freeloaders on. Sunday,, shapes up as a big outing. The boys and girls in good standing have accepted with alacrity and the "ravages of the locusts will be mild compared to the hungry horde. About 300 are expected to attend the festivities . . A. G. Vanderbilts Cousin, who made his debut yesterday, is a 0,000 yearling. A half-brother to The Doge and Carolina Queen, the youngster is by Priam II. — My Auntie. Carolina Queen downed Aunt Jinny in the Marguerite Stakes at Pimlico last fall. The six Irish-breds that Tom Waller received the other day from overseas are destined for the Saratoga salesring ■. . . , Trainer Roscoe Troxler vanned nine horses to Monmouth Park for racing during that meeting . .Catalogues for the sale of horses to be held on June 14 were distributed today . . Jockey Hedley Woodhouse will have the mount on the Brookmeade Stables Steadfast in the Belmont Stakes . Jockey Warren Mehrtens will go to Delaware Park where tomorrow he will ride Star-Enfin in the Polly Drummond Stakes. He may remain over to ride Kiss Me Kate, owned by Walter M. Jeffords in the Oaks on Saturday.. Gay Fox, a starter in the fourth race yesterday under the J. M. Jerkens silks, raced in England. He was one of the yearlings that William Woodward shipped to Capt. Cecil Boyd-Rochfort five years ago. He was returned here when he went amiss over there A. C. "Brother" Bostwick was on hand for the afternoon, his first appearance in .some time . The H. P. Headley horses will be shipped to Arlington Park over the week-end . The Irish-bred Silver Tide was altered, according to trainer "Duke" Montour. He also reported that the veteran campaigner Mirabeau had been returned to training. Allie Reuben, of Hasty House Farm, and Harry Trotsek are due here for the sale of horses in training on Thursday . . .Trainer George Poole will return the Greentree Stables Massachusetts Handicap starter, One Hitter, to Belmont Park on Thursday Trainer Howard Hoffman supervised the loading of the Ada L. Rice horses for Arlington Park this morning. . Jockey Porter Roberts will desert New York for several days for engagements at Monmouth Park.. . .A. G. Vanderbilts Sweet Talk will go to Delaware Park to fulfill her engagement in the Oaks at that point. Trainer Jack Sirvin has received some encouraging reports in the past few days on the condition of the three-year-old Ken, Continued on Page Thirty-Six Connors Corner Continued from Page Five owned by Mrs. E. K. WeiL The colt developed what appeared to be an intermittent ailment in his shoulder during the Hialeah meeting and would not extend himself and was thrown out of training. This spring he was shipped to Doug Davis to be turned over to Dr. B. L. Proctor for observation and treatment. The source of the ailment appears to be centered in his right shoulder, although the colt was going sore on his left side. According to the reports, Skirvin said that the colt may be returned to training late this fall for a winter campaign . . . Jockey Eric Guerin will do his riding chores at Delaware on Saturday and his top mount of the afternoon will be Sweet Talk in the Oaks The new departure, drawing post positions for horses on the also eligible list, went into effect today. Francis P. Dunne, steward of the State Racing Commission, handled the pills and his audience was composed of jockey agents. Solima M., was the one drawn to replace Hexton, an early withdrawal from the days opener. Under the new rule the filly moved into the vacated post position, number seven Cyrus S. Julien and Edward Kilroe, of the Queens County Jockey Club, yesterday selected the prizes that "go to the trainer and jockey of the winners of the Dwyer, Brooklyn and Beldame Handicaps. The awards are Revere Silver Bowls, a handy receptacle for odds and ends when placed on the mantle. The selections are: FLUID GOLD in the fourth; PRIMATE in the sixth and CIRCLED in the eighth.
