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Twelve to Vie in Aqueduct Handicap Arcave Topweight j And Likely Choice Combat Boots, Indian Land, Again II., Rivals as Sport Returns to Long Island Area AQUEDUCT, L. I., N. Y., Aug. 29. Thoroughbred racing returns to Long Island Monday with Aqueduct the scene of the opening phase of the autumn span which closes at Jamaica on November 15. After three weeks at the Queens County Jockey Club track, Belmont Park will open its brilliant fall meeting on September 21 with Tom Fool and Native Dancer expected to meet in the Sysonby Mile the following Saturday. The Westchester Racing Association meeting runs through October 10 at beautiful Belmont, after which the Metropolitan Jockey Club will hold forth at its Jamaica home grounds for a week, with the homeless Empire City Racing Association taking over for the balance of the ; season. The 5,000 Aqueduct Handicap is the opening day feature at the Rockaway Boulevard course and a field of 12 has been named to dispute the mile and a sixteenth headed by Cockfield Stables Arcave with 119 pounds. This will be followed by eight other fixtures climaxed by the 0,000 Beldame Handicap for fillies and mares at a mile and a furlong on September 19. The Labor Day week-end will be highlighted by the 5,000 Discovery Handicap for three-year-olds on Saturday and the 0,000 Bay Shore Handicap on Monday. The Discovery is at a mile and one furlong, while the Bay Shore is a seven-furlong test. Arcave and Putnam Stables Boots, who is second in the Aqueduct weights with 117 pounds, both appeared in the Saratoga Handicap. Arcave turned in a good race to be second to Alerted, beaten a little more than a length and a quarter, while Combat Boots stopped to a walk after leading for a half mile and finished last in the field of seven. Ovie Scurlock will be on Arcave, while Hedley Woodhuse will pilot Combat Boots, whose race was probably too bad to be true. Both horses had won their previous starts at the Spa. Several Have Been Racing in New Jersey - Several of the Aqueduct candidates have been racing with varying success in New Jersey during the Saratoga meeting. D. J. Schneiders Elixir and Phantom Farms Nullify finished unplaced in different divisions of the Boardwak Handicap on Atlantic Citys grass course, but the first-named won his previous start at Jamaica and may be hard to handle with 113 pounds and the number 1 post position. J. S. Kroeses South American Again II., comes from a series of good races at Monmouth Park, winning or finishing in the , i money in similar company to this. He gets . , in with 112 pounds, the same burden car- ried by Arnold Skjevelands Flaunt, who , , was beaten by Again n. in New Jersey and I , by Arcave at Aqueduct, but has showed a liking for the local strip. Brookmeade , Stables First Aid won the Saranac Handi- ; Continued on Page Forty-Eight CYRUS S. JULL1EN President of the Queens County Jockey Club which opens its autumn meeting at its Aqueduct course on Monday. Twelve Slated to Vie For Aqueduct Handicap Arcave, Combat Boots Compete At Long Island Track Monday Continued from Page Fire cap at Jamaica in a surprise score, then finished unplaced in New Jersey. Alfred G. Vanderbilts Indian Land, who will probably be one of the choices, along with Arcave, Combat Boots and Elixir, carries 116 pounds and Eric Guerin. He finished fourth behind Eatontown, Kaster and Acefull in the American Legion Cap at the Spa last out, chased Tom Fool in the betless Wilson Mile before that. The Aqueduct field is completed by Sy-delle Kissels Timely Reward, 115; Ogden Phipps Ancestor, 109, and Louis B. Mayers Swell, 102 pounds. Timely Reward showed fine form on Long Island in July, returned to action with an obscure race behind Hilarious in a sprint at Saratoga this week. Ancestor came back from a bad race at the Spa, in which he appeared sore, to win an overnight handicap by a neck from Freedom Bell. Last year, he won the Discovery Handicap here at Aqueduct for the best race of his career. Swell is making his first start in the East. This half-brother to Jet Pilot, by Count Fleet was very highly regarded early last winter, so much so that Ted Atkinson was tentatively engaged to fly from Florida to Santa Anita to ride him in Dr. Strubs Derby. However, he lost his form completely. He has now been freshened and brought back by B. Frank Christmas and his effort will be watched with interest. The inaugural throng will be treated to a good supporting card, with large fields in most of the races, which get under way at 1:15 p. m. For the first time at a New York track, the morning line will be printed on the program.
