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CONNORS CORNER By Chuck Connors BELMONT PARK, Elmont, L. I., N. Y., June 3. The current meeting of the Westchester Racing Association here continues uuiu a ween uuui oai- urday, but Aqueduct will project itself into the turf picture this Sunday when turf folk, several hundred strong, will rally there. The occasion is the annual clambake of the Queens County Jockey Club, a practice that president Cyrus S. Jullien inaugurated a few years ago tjt Tioralrl tVio dimmer. meeting. Aqueduct wU open on June 14 for a 24-day stand. The clambake is designed to satiate the partakers appetite for viands and vino and at the same time whet their appetite for Aqueducts particular turf fare. The invitees include owners, breeders, trainers, jockeys, the press and radio and television, racing officials and executives and others associated with the sport. Also their wives and guests. The impending meeting will be marked by Aqueducts traditional stakes, topped,, by the Dwyer, Carter and Brooklyn, with 0,000 added to each, and further bulwarked by the Queens County, Astoria, Gazelle, Shev-lin, Tremont, Edgemere, Distaff and Great American, not to mention the Hitchock, Amagansett and the Forget for the jumpers. AAA Trainer Tommy Root will ship the horses he has here for various patrons to Monmouth Park for that meeting. The shipment will be headed by White Skies, owned by W. M. Wickham. The five-year-old, however, is expected to return to Aqueduct for vhjs engagement in the Carter Handicap . . . A human interest sidelight was overlooked by many in the clubhouse and grandstand yesterday when the steeplechaser Marshland n. fell and suffered a broken leg, later to be destroyed. Miss Joan Walsh, daughter of the owner, raced through the field and accompanied the horse in the ambulance on his final journey. She comforted the animal who was showing pain . . . Trainer Clyde Troutt will ship the horses owned by Eugene Constantin to Chicago for the Arlington and Washington Park meetings . . . S. Bryce Wing came up from Maryland and plans to remain for the balance of the meeting. AAA Trainer Kay Jensen reported that the speedy Mr. Gus, owned by tbe Washing- Clambake at Aqueduct on Sunday 4 Miss Joan Walsh Comforts Fencer Shipments to Delaware, Monmouth tonian, Gustave Ring, is training steadily and will make his seasonal debut at Aqueduct . . . Jockey Ira "Babe" Hanford is on hand to fulfill engagements here on Thursday and Friday. He came up from New Jersey . . . Jockey G. Glassner will go to Delaware Park for Saturday where he will ride I Geegee. owned by Harry Isaacs, in the Kent Stakes . . . F. D. Christmas, Jr., came up from Delaware Park to saddle his starter in the second race today Trainer Sol Rutchick shipped Gallies Pride to Delaware Park to join the division he has at that point . . . Trainer Walter Kelly shipped Fleet Star to Rockingham Park for racing there . . . Trainer Oleg Dubassoff returned from a trip to Lexington, Ky., where he inspected the four foals owned by the Lazy F Ranch and two the property of J. M. Schiff . AAA Stephen "Laddie" Sanford was on hand to do some extra-curricular rooting for his starter Polly Wats in the days opener. He proved a good rooter . . . Trainer Preston Burch is at Brookmeade Farm, Upperville, Va., on an inspection trip but plans to return for the week-end sport . . . Harry F. Guggenheim, master of Cain Hoy, reported that the three-year-old Hot Pursuit who is afflicted with urinary trouble is training steadily at his Port Washington Farm and will be ready for racing during the Aqueduct meet . . . Jockey Jorge Contreras will ride Iceberg n. in his week-end engagement . . . Danny Arnstein, of the Starle Stable, was on hand yesterday and stated that his horses are coming along nicely and will be seen under colors more frequently from now on . . . Nelson I.- Asiel plans a trip to Virginia to inspect the foals that are being assembled there from Kentucky and other nurseries. AAA Mrs. Seth Morton arrived from Palm Beach and after witnessing several days racing left for her Saratoga Springs home . . . Mrs. Dodge Sloane, mistress of Brookmeade Stable, was on hand for the running of the Meadow Brook Steeplechase . . . Trainer Jim Ryan returned from Delaware Park to saddle The Mast for Mrs. John R. H. Thouron in the Meadow Brook . . . Mrs. Marion W. OConnor came up from Washington, D. C, for the running of the Water Blossom in which she was represent- -i,$ bmo i fen iico vc mtt in mfln ed by La Corredora . . . Bill Markey returned from Miami to report that the weather was wet and disagreeable. He was represented in the days opener by Tax Free . . . James Cox Brady was among the early arrivals for the afternoon. His horses will be shipped to Monmouth next week . Trainer Charles Whittingham plans to start Porterhouse in the Peter Pan on Saturday for Mrs. M. E. Person. The colt will be ridden by Bill Boland.
