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Porterhouse, Ordained Entry In Aqueducts Sprint Stake ► Battle Royal Promised With Due de Fer# Revolt, Quick Lunch, Card Trick in Field AQUEDUCT, L. I., N. Y., June 19.— Three stakes enliven the weeks agenda at Aqueduct, starting with the 5,000 Shevlin, which promises to be an exceedingly lively seven furlongs. No less than 17 three-year-olds, including several stakes winners, have been named for Mondays extended dash. On Wednesday, juvenile colts and geldings meet in the sixty-second running of the 0,000 Tremont at five and a half furlongs, while next Saturdays 5,000 Edge-mere Handicap at a mile and a furlong Will probably be headed by Greentree Stables Suburban winner. Straight Face. This edition of the Shevlin promises to be the most interesting in the 27 runnings of this fixture, which last year was reduced to its present distance after having been at a mile and a sixteenth since Jocomar set a track record in it in 1940. Incidentally, in that year, the Shevlin and Tremont were mn the same afternoon and Chicuelo, who also raced for Mrs. Elizabeth Graham then Mrs. Graham Lewis set both track marks. The "name horses" in the Shevlin are Llangollen Farms Porterhouse, Mrs. Walter H. Hoffman, Jr.s Limelight, J. Warfield Rodgers Due de Fer and Hal Price Head-leys Revolt. Other stakes winners in the Shevlin include Wheatley Stables Full Flight and Quick Lunch, Greentree Stables Card Trick, Joe W. Browns Bobby Brocato and* Gigantic and Edward M. OBriens Brisuet. v Last Years Juvenile Champion . Porterhouse, who will be coupled "with the recent winner, Ordained, was the juvenile champion last year, won his first two starts I in brilliant style this season, then developed a recurrence of a back injury and finished unplaced in the Peter Pan and Belmont Stakes. He ran well for a mile and a quarter in the Belmont, however, and turned in an excellent five-furlong prep between races here yesterday. At 116 pounds, includ- ing Bill Boland, he wll be hard to beat. Ordained, who will be ridden by Angel Valenzuela, won a feature here at a mile and a sixteenth on Wednesday, leading all the way. He, too, should be a factor under 111 pounds. • Limelight has won. four "overnight races this year, none of them on Long Island, and finished third in the Belmont, far behind High Gun and Fisherman, who is a somewhat surprising absentee from the Shevlin. The Nasrullah colt suffered a slightly bruised foot in the Belmont, but is galloping soundly and will be ridden by Eddie Arcaro at as close to. Ill pounds as "the master" can get. Due de Fer, an exceptionally speedy colt, comes from a winning race at Monmouth, but may find seven furlongs and this long stretch a little far. Logan Batcheller will ride the Spy Song colt. Revolt beat a clever field at Jamaica, was a close fourth, a nose behind Quick Lunch in the Experimental and was close behind Brisuet and Due de Fer in the Delaware Valley Stakes, among other good races. Conn McCreary will.ride. Brisuet, Gigantic and Full Flight are equal topweight on Monday with 120 pounds each, owing to victories in the Delaware Valley, Louisiana. Derby and Leonard Richard Stakes. Brisuet stopped badly in a seven-furlong test at Belmont on June 8, finishing behind Card Trick, Quick Lunch, Peter Lane, Limelight and Bobby Brocato, who finished in that order. Gigantic finished up the track in the Preakness, while Full Flight failed to give nine pounds to Ordained here on Wednesday, after running into a blind switch, then was disqualified for lugging in through the stretch. Card Trick, who won the Flash Stakes last year, turned in a sparkling effort for his only start this year and appears to be an improved animal since being gelded. Ted Atkinson will ride at 111 pounds and the Case Ace gelding is sure of considerable support. The others in theShevlin are Brae Burn Farms War Piper, Max Kahlbaums Carnival Cat, John Barry Ryans Buttevant, W. Haggin, Perrys Remand, Christiana Stables Mehemsha and Frank Quartier Jr.s Gangland, all of whom carry 111 pounds. War Piper was a clever winner at Belmont last Saturday, while Buttevant followed some good races, in which he bore out, by bolting off the track in the Belmont Stakes. Remand comes from a stable in form- and has some races to his credit that give him an excellent chance for a place in the picture. A New Jersey invader, Robert P. Levys Hueso, won last years Shevlin. The inaugural was taken by Rancocas Stables Silver Fox, who wasprobabjy the best gray three-yekrolgto racem this country prior to Native Dancer. The stake has also gone to such good ories as Victorian,, Jack High, Faireho, By Jimmihy, Vildlife, My Request and Battlefield.
