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Aqueduct By Chuck Connors Brooklyn Handicap Creating Much Interest Return Meeting Between High Gun, Helioscope Weights Are Due to Be Released on July 4 AQUEDUCT, L. I., N. Y., June 21. The weights for the Brooklyn Handicap, which is to be contested the final day of this meeting, Saturday, July 9, are to be released on Monday, July 4. This traditional feature, wliich came into existence at the old Graves-end course situated in the Coney Island area in 1887, is creating more than passing interest among the membership of the paddock gang. The boys are trying to pre-guess Jimmie Kilroe in his weight assignments with two contenders, namely, the King Ranchs High Gun and Helioscope, owned by William Helis, Jr., and the anchor posts and carriers of top weights. The Brooklyn is the final offering of the "big three" handicaps for the spring and summer season. The first two, the Metropolitan and Suburban were contested at Belmonf Park. High Gun won the Metropolitan, Helioscope was not a starter, but the latter shipped in to take the Suburban. The two are among the 35 nominations which were made to the Brooklyn when the event closed on May 16. The Brooklyn carries an added value of 0,000 and is for three-year-olds and over and, in addition, a suitable trophy will be presented to the winning owner and a memento of the race will go to the jockey who rode the winner. Suggest King Ranch Colt Get Three-Pound Span The return engagement between the King Ranch and Helis stars, and from the present outlook both will accept the starting assignments, should produce a smashing contest. In the Suburban High Gun conceded five pounds to Heloscope and lost by a head. The weights were 133 to 128, and thus that poundage has the boys trying to figure out what will be assigned in the Brooklyn. The majority were of the opinion that a span of three pounds would be appropriate with High Gun the one to shoulder the heavier burden. However, like everything else, the day will roll around and the weights will be made public and the arguments pro and con will be stifled for a while only to flare up again after the running. Well, there is one positive fact that this years renewal of the Brooklyn will not reproduce the scenes that accompanied the success of Dry Mono-pole over Blue Wing and Hidalgo. No horse-drawn vehicles loaded down with buckets of Dry Monopole champagne, chilled to the proper temperature, will be in circulation among the patrons. Trainer Max Hirsch reported that Riverina, owned by the King Ranch, had been shipped to Kentucky. The miss, who suffered a sesamoid break in her last start, will join the matron ranks next spring. . . . Trainer Preston Burch reported that Gandharva, owned by the Brookmeade Stable, had been returned from Monmouth Park where she started in an engagement last Saturday. . . . The racing clans were saddened by the passing of Milton Gettinger, in Miami, Fla., following a brief illness. Funeral services will be held in New York city. . . . Alex Robb came over from Belmont Park to discuss with Jimmy Kilroe the stake agenda for that association for the fall meeting. . . . Warner L. Jones, before returning to Delaware Park, reported that he will offer brothers to Dark Star and Royal Bay Gem at the Keeneland yearling sales. John William Jacobs, son of Hirsch Jacobs and for whom the sprinter Our John William was named, will be inducted in the Army Friday morning. . . . Joe Fisher, a totalisator employee and former bookmakers clerk, died at his home over the week-end. Funeral services were held this morning. ... J. M. Lee returned God Child to Delaware Park following the running of the Distaff Handicap. . . . Carl Risland, the bugler, is all set for, the summer season. He has a hideout adjoining the finish line, nice and cozy and protected by an awning. . . . Frank Bain, long a regular on the New York tracks, is in San Francisco and plans to make his home in that city. He recently lost his wife, Gussie, following a brief illness, and this prompted him to desert these parts." Steeplechase Set Going to Delaware The steeplechase set following this meeting will move onto Delaware Park and close out that meeting before shipping to Saratoga Springs. . . . George M. Odom will go to Delaware for several races. The move is an alibi to attend the lobster clambake to be tossed by Colin "Sandy" MacLeod, the old Virginian from Dartmouth. . . . Jockey Ted Atkinson will go to Nar-ragansett Park to ride Misty Morn in her Providence stakes engagement. . . . Trainer Woodford Stephens, he was named for the Kentucky county in which he was born, is thinking of starting Traffic Judge in the Ohio Derby which is to be contested over the week end. A complete tabulation of the Saratoga Springs stakes which closedon June 15, will be announced in a day or two, according to Vince McCarthy of that association. . . . Harry F. Guggenheim, master of Cain Hoy Stable, returned from a business trip to San Francisco and was a Belmont Park visitor. . . . John Barry Ryan, at present in Europe, plans to return for the Saratoga at home season. . . . Trainer John B. Partridge reported that Jamie K., owned by the Spring Hill Farm, is coming along nicely in preliminary training. However, said the veteran, he has yet to feel the pressure of hard work. . . . Track superintendent Lennie Lit-wak had the big California harrow on the racing strip this morning to knock off the lumps.
