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Dozen Two-Year-Olds Go In El Chico at Aqueduct Brer Fox, Brookridge, Charlie McAdam Slated to Match Strides AQUEDUCT, L. I., N. Y., June 25.— A dozen two - year - olds, half of whom are eligible to the 5,000 Great American Stakes at this meeting, have been named for the featured El Chico Purse at Aqueduct tomorrow. This race is named for William Zieglers colt, who won the 1938 edition of the Great American in the course of his unbeaten juvenile campaign. The Great American candidates in tomorrows dash at five and a half furlongs are Russell A. Firestones Brookridge, Vera S. Braggs Brer Fox and Mixture, Putnam Stables Blue Danube, Belair Studs Secant and John C. Clarks Charlie McAdam. Brer Fox is topweight of the field with 117 pounds and won his last start at Belmont Park, beating Green tree Stables recent winner, Anchor Man, by three lengths. His stablemate, Mixture, gets in with 112 and was last seen in the Tremont on Friday, in which he finished fourth, tiring badly at the end. Brookridge is the question mark of the El Chico. This son of the speedy Brook -field ran the fastest race of the Hialeah meeting last winter, getting a bigger "figure" than Jet Master while merely breezing. He was then put aside until the Jamaica meeting, when he reared over backwards in the starting gate and ran away through the stable area. Brookridge was scratched from that dash and also received cuts and scratches on his legs that kept him on the sidelines for several weeks. Ovie Scurlock will ride tomorrow, but must break from the number 11 post, with only Charlie McAdam outside of him. Charlie McAdam gave three pounds to Brer Fox then finishing between Star-Enfin and that colt in his last start at Belmont. Nick Wall will ride the Heliopolis colt. Blue Danube has shown little, while Secant has been idle since early in the Jamaica meeting. The others in the El Chico: the recent winner, W. Goadby Loews Mae West; Gustave Rings Busy Signal, recently claimed from A. G. Vanderbilt; Wally Jacobs Milton Berle, Lee McCoys Indian Land and the first-time starter, Armagh. Mae West, who has won her last two, beat a clever band in her last start at Belmont, paying 7.60, and finished as though she will like the additional sixteenth and the long stretch tomorrow. Warren Mehrtens will again be in the saddle. The balance of tomorrows program is made up of maiden and claiming races and there wont be any jumping race, the scheduled hurdle event having failed to draw enough entrants to make a race.
