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Fillies, Mares Take Over In Vagrancy at Aqueduct Renew, Thelma Berger, Busanda, Sickles Image in 5,000 Test By BOB HORWOOD Staff Correspondent AQUEDUCT, L. I., N. Y June 27. Fillies and mares take over the spotlight at Aqueduct tomorrow, with 10 of the sometimes weaker sex being named to dispute the 5,000 Vagrancy Handicap at a mile and a sixteenth. The Vagrancy, which is named for Belair Studs Oaks-winning filly of a decade ago, and dam of Prince Simon, is a comparatively hew stake on the Queens County Jockey Club roster. It was inaugurated in 1948, when Harry LaMon-tagnes hard-hitting Conniyer was the winner, but was promptly abandoned, and tomorrows running will be the second, but probably not the last. James Fitzsimmons, Vagrancys trainer for her 15 victories in 1942, will saddle Ogden Phipps Busanda tomorrow, but will have little besides sentiment running for him as the War Admiral mare has been a keen disappointment since she won the Suburban last spring. Busanda gets in with 116 pounds and will be ridden by Dave Gorman. She may improve on her home track. The topweight for the Vagrancy is King Ranchs Renew, who won the Top Flight Handicap at Belmont Park. She has 118 pounds and will be one of the favorites, though she has since been defeated by two of those she meets tomorrow. These are Continued on Page Forty-Four Fillies, Mares Take Over In Vagrancy at Aqueduct Renew, Thelma Berger, Busanda, Sickles Image in 5,000 Test Continued from Page One Joe W. Browns Thelma Berger and Wood-vale-Farms Marta. Thelma Berger, who has 116 to carry, turned in her best race of the year here a week ago when she beat Marta a head in the Fairy Chant Handicap at the "Vagrancy distance, with Renew a bit more than two lengths away in fourth place. Thelma Berger picks up one pound to carry 116, while Marta also picks up one, giving her 117 tomorrow. Renew drops four pounds since that defeat, giving her a favorable shift of five pounds for about two lengths. Keith StUart will ride Thelma Berger, who showed herself to be an Aqueduct specialist when winning the Beldame Handicap here last fall, while Conn McCreary will pilot Marta. Clarence Hartwicks Sickles Image, who has not been seen on Long Island since her juvenile campaign, vanned in from Monmouth Park, where she finished -second to Dixie Flyer in a division of the Regret Handicap last Saturday. The Sickletoy four-year-old, who has a 115-pound impost, has raced creditablyxon both coasts and at many tracks between in her widely-traveled career, and can be expected to give a good account of herself. Her regular pilot, Billie Fisk, is coming from Detroit to ride her - tomorrow. Harry LaMontagnes Valadium, who has 115 to carry, finished a soundly beaten last in the Fairy Chant, for which she was the favorite, but drops five pounds tomorrow. Eric Guerin will ride Billy Posts charge, who had finished second to Renew in the Top Flight at Belmont Park. The others in the Vagrancy, all lightweights, are Max Glucks Blue Moon, 111; Greentree Stables Toto, 108; B. Frank Christmas Winship, 103, and Edward M. OBriens Miss Degree, 102. Blue Moon finished close behind Renew and in front of Toto in the Top Flight, and is an improving mare. She will have the services of Hedley Woodhpuse. Toto sadly disappointed her connections in the Top Flight, but has been training exceptionally well since that race, in which she refused to extend herself. One of these afternoons, this filly is going to forget that she was named for a- clown, put her mind on her work and turn in the good race of which she is capable. Ray York will ride tomorrow in the absence of Ted Atkinson, who will accompany One Hitter to Monmouth Park. Winship and Miss Degree are a pair of sprinters who have little beyond their feathery burdens to recommend them in this mile and a sixteenth, which is rendered the more severe by the long Aqueduct stretch.
