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Dictar Tops Nine Vying in Bracadale BracadaleBrown Brown Booter Seeks Third Score of Belmont Meeting While Facing Maedics Son SonBELMONT BELMONT PARK Elmont L I N Y June 10 George Auerbachs Dictar heads a field of nine threeyearolds in the 7500 Bracadale Handicap feature attraction at beautiful Belmont tomorrow This mile and a sixteenth is named for the Bancocas horse who finished third behind Black Gold and Chilhowee in the 1924 Kentucky Derby but was confused by the placing judges with Col E B Bradleys Beau Butler with the result that his feat is not included in the records recordsDictar Dictar who has not raced since he fin ¬ ished second to Milspal at Jamaica on April 30 is required to carry 122 pounds most of which will be Eric Guerin It does not appear an easy task Charfran Stables Brown Booter is next in the Bracadale weights with 119 pounds and has won three of the last four starts at this meeting leading from wire to wire at tomorrows distance and coming from behind in a couple of sprints Eddie Arcaro will ride Bob Odoms charge chargeThe The other recent winners in the Braca ¬ dale are James Cox Bradys Landlocked 113 A J Fralingers Bob o Boy 110 and Belair Studs La Perouse 107 pounds Landr locked a stakes winner last year scored in his last outing at Garden State Park while Bob o Boy won his last two in New Jersey but the first of these triumphs was in a claimer La Perouse was scratched from the Coaching Club American Oaks after beating a large field of fillies in a sprint on May 27 finishing very fast fastMiss Miss Nancy Speedy Sort SortThe The other filly in the Bracadale is Ben P Whitakers Miss Nancy a speedy miss who finished third to Ballerina and Hows Tricks last out outThe The field is Completed by Warbern Sta bels Sickles Sound 114 Col Isidore Biebers Fresh Meadow 113 and Greentree Stables Powhatan 112 Sickles Sound finished seventh in the Peter Pan Handcap last out while Powhatan was a fastfinish ¬ ing fifth in that race won by Invigorator Though he will probably again have to circle several horses at the head of the stretch a repetition of his Peter Pan per ¬ formance would probably be good enough to make Powhatan the winner here Ted Atkinson will be in the saddle Fresh Meadow has shown nothing in his two starts since he was seriously in ¬ jured at the start of the Hialeah meeting last winter but continues to train smartly and may show sharp improvement Dave Gorman will be in the irons ironsHows Hows Tricks who appeared to need her race behind Ballerina is expected to show considerable improvement in the Moira Purse which precedes the Bracadale and the Greentree miss is the probable choice over her 10 rivals in this six furlongs
