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New York Racing Shifts to Aqueduct Hitex Tops Ten Vying in Queens County; Tea-Maker Seeking Kingston Handicap By BOB HORWOOD Staff Correspondent AQUEDUCT, L. I., N. Y., June 19.— The Queens County Jockey Club opens its 19-day meeting at this oldest of Long Islands race tracks tomorrow. Nine stakes are on the agenda for the Rockaway Boulevard session, plus four jumping fixtures. The opening-day feature is the 5,000 Queens County Handicap at a mile and one-sixteenth, and this test has the distinction of having the most lightly burdened topweight of any handicap stake within recent memory. Ben F. Whitakers Hitex heads the field of 10 with a modest 113 pounds, none of the numerous higher weights accepting their assignments. Somewhat better horses have been engaged for the Kingston Handicap, an overnight event at six furlongs for a ,500 purse. P. Ambrose Clarks Tea-Maker heads the seven in this dash with 123 pounds, while Harborvale Stables fleet D2rk Peter is next with 121, and Alfred G. Vanderbilts First Glance has been assigned 118 pounds. Highlights of Meeting The highlights of the Aqueduct meeting are a trio of 0,000 .stakes. Greentree Stables handicap champion, Tom Fool, is pointing for the seven - furlong Carter Handicap on June 27, and the Brooklyn at a mile and one quarter on July 11. Alfred G. Vanderbilts three-year-old champion, Native Dancer, is expected to go postward in the Dwyer Stakes at a mile and one quarter on July 4. Tom Fool has already won the Metropolitan and Suburban this year and a victory in the Brooklyn will equal the . Continued on Page Forty-Three I Aqueduct Opening Meet; Ten Vie in Queens County Hitex Tops Line-Up With 113 Up; Tea-Maker Seeking Kingston Continued from Page One feat of Whisk Broom II., while Native Dancer swept the Wood Memorial, Withers, Freakness and Belmont Stakes, a narrow defeat by Dark Star in the Kentucky Derby being the only smudge on his otherwise perfect record. , Hitex has nine rivals in the Queens County and their light imposts are a strong intimation of their lack of quality, at this time, anyway. Mrs. S. G. Zauderers consistent, speedy and courageous filly, Gay Grecque, looms the chief rival to the Whit-aker speedster, who has won two of his last three starts. Though she has not been asked to go a distance this year, she finishes her races well and the daughter of Heli-opolis is not badly treated with 109 pounds. She has won three of her last four starts. Three of the Queens County field last appeared in the Massachusetts Handicap. Jack Amiels Count Turf, 110, finished third in that stake last Wednesday, while King Ranchs High Scud, also 110, finished fourth and Ogden Phipps Ancestor, 104, finished sixth. Ancestors only stakes victory was in the Discovery Handicap at this track last year. High Tide Stables Swoop, 107 pounds, has been on the sidelines since he beat Ancestor at Jamaica on May 4. A. G. Vander-bilts Indian Land, 112, has been racing well in New Jersey where he won the Camden Handicap and placed in the Oceanport. Arnold Skjevelands Flaunt has also been racing well in New Jersey. The Queens County field is completed by CoL Isidore Biebers King Jolie and F. H. Starks Assignment, with 106 pounds each, m as open a race as this, either could win without raising too many eyebrows. However, Hitex, Gay Grecque, Indian Land, Count Turf and High Scud seem to have such class as there is in the stake. Tea-Maker, who comes from two winning races, and refuses to acknowledge his 10 year, will be ridden by Hedley Woodhouse in the Kingston and is the one to beat. Dave Gorman is to ride Dark Peter, who has been training brilliantly and finished second to Squared Away in the Roseben Handicap last out. Eric Guerin will ride First Glance, who has not started since finishing second to Cold Command at a mile and one-sixteenth at Jamaica in April, after winning the Excelsior Handicap at the same route. Marlboro Stud Farms speedy Jet Master seems favorably placed here with 109 pounds and Nick Wall. In his most recent engagement, Jet Master finished a tiring second to Primate at Belmont Park, after setting all the pace on Wednesday. The Kingston field is completed by Winding Way Farms Sagittarius and Mrs. Alfred Roberts Eaton town, 114 pounds each, and Greentrees Hall of Fame, 110 pounds. Sagittarius and Eatontown have both raced well in fast company all year, while Hall of Fame, who is attempting a comeback, turned in a promising effort in his first start of the year on June 15. Though rallying too late to be a threat to Hitex, the five-year-old showed a flash of his best speed in the final three-sixteenths of that dash.
