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♦ New York Scene Shifts to Aqueduct ♦ Arise Topweight Under 1231 In Queens County Handicap Engages County Delight and? ♦ Quiet Step in 0,000 Race; Brooklyn, Dwyer Big Events AQUEDUCT, L. I., N. Y., June 11.— The New York racing scene shifts to Aqueduct tomorrow for a 27-day stand, ending on July 12 with the sixty-fourth running of the 0,000 Brooklyn Handicap. The Brooklyn is the grand finale of a series* of 16 stakes, including five over obstacles, that begins tomorrow with the forty-seventh edition of the 0,000 Queens County Handicap. This mile and a sixteenth event is followed by Saturdays 5,000 Gazelle Stakes at the same distance, but for sophomore fillies. Other highlights of the Queens County Jockey Club meeting include the ; 0,000 Dwyer Stakes, former "Brooklyn Derby" for sophomores at a mile and a quarter on July 5, the Edgemere, Vagrancy ; and Carter Handicaps with 5,000 added to each, the Astoria, Tremont and Great American Stakes for two-year-olds, and the Shevlin for three-year-olds. The major jurqping fixtures are the 0,000 Forget Handicap over hurdles on June 26, and the Hitchcock Steeplechase of the same value , on July 3. Tomorrows Queens County Handicap, L which conflicts somewhat with todays Massachusetts Handicap, has attracted a field of six, headed by Addison Stables Arise with 123 pounds, mostly Ovie Scur-lock. ■ The He Did stallion has showed a liking j for Aqueducts peculiar conformation and , won the Carter here last summer. He comes from a smashing score in a swiftly ] run mile event at Belmont Park. County Delight Shoulders 121 Arise will be opposed by Rokeby Stables . , veteran County Delight, 121; William | Ewings Auditing, 113; A. G. Vanderbilts . First Glance, 110; Apheim Stables Quiet I j J Step, 104, and King Ranchs High Dive, 102. County Delight, who has been one of the ] leaders of the handicap division the past couple of years, finished second to the 1 much-improved Pensava at Delaware last out, beaten a length in a fast mile and a J sixteenth. He showed an ability to negotiate 1 the Aqueduct turns last year in fin- ishing i third to Palestinian and Sheilas Re- I ward in the Brooklyn Handicap under 124 f pounds. i Dave Gorman will ride. 1 Auditing, who will have the services of I Ted Atkinson, has been unable to win this season, but his last three races were excel- J J lent. After finishing second to Combat J ] Boots in an overnight event, he finished 3 j third to Spartan Valor and Alerted in the / Gallant Fox Handicap at Jemaica and was a c a „ close second to Alerted in the Dixie Handicap. ftart Glance is. the speed of the Queens . County . field and may take some catching, J though his stamina remains to be demon- strated. The Discovery five-year-old beat t i Battlefield at six furlongs in 1:10 early in l f May, was unplaced in two longer races, I then came back to beat Delegate, Tea-Maker and other crack sprinters here last w Saturday. c Ray York will be in the saddle. . I Lightweights of Field t Quiet Step and High Dive have little ? r more than their light imposts to recommend r them in this company. Quiet Step, a ° s stake winner at Hialeah, made a strong, i but premature, move in the Peter Pan jj F. j Handicap last out, finishing third to Arma- J g geddon and Golden Gloves. High Dive r raced obscurely in the Suburban last out. . President Cyrus S. Jullien has arranged c t to make tomorrows Aqueduct opening ° s something more than just a change of ° s scene, with a flag-raising ceremony, complete p with 20-man color guard from the | i 102nd Army Anti-Aircraft Artillery bri- • gade, g while Major Sutherland will lead the E i 7th Regiment band through the measures p of the Star Spangled Banner in the infield, r then return to the grandstand to regale the ■ patrons r throughout the afternoon. % * By way of improvements to the Rock- s away Boulevard course, 2,500 additional s seats have been installed in the sundeck at J t the north end of the grandstand, and park- £ i ing space for an additional 1,500 cars has v been t added directly behind the stands. A f. r new entrance, feeding into Linden Boule- s 1 vard and facilitating the arrival and de- t to I parture of Brooklyn motorists has been f a added to this parking section. The "shoe 2 2 board,* t which was first provided New York ft F patrons at Aqueduct, will again be in place i a atop the infield odds board, while two new d indicator i boards, showing the various types a ■ of shoes, have been installed in the grandstand I and clubhouse. e d CYRUS S. JULLIEN— President of the Queens County Jockey Club to whose Aqueduct course the New York racing scene shifts today.
