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Aqueduct By Chuck Connors L- Aqueduct Fixtures Steeped in Tradition Dwyer, Carter, Brooklyn Renewals Awaited To Attract Nashua, Helioscope High Gun AQUEDUCT, L. I., N. Y., June 29. The Dwyer, the Carter and the Brooklyn, three of the tradition-steeped races here, the oldest track in the New York area, will attract no end of attention from the public. The Dwyer focuses attention on William Woodward, Jr.s, Nashua, who many, are of the opinion will, before his racing career comes to an end, surpass the earnings of Citation. His opposition in the event will not be considered top drawer quality, but as the man once remarked, you can never tell the outcome of a race until it is over. The Carter brings together a re turn engagement between High Gun from King Ranch and Helioscope from the William G. Helis menage. These two are again the most talked of candidates for the Brooklyn Handicap, which brings this meeting to a close on July 9. The Carter is at seven furlongs, while the Brooklyn is over the mile and a quarter dis- tance. New Yorkers to Miss Carter Telecast Well, the television and radio boys will have a picnic with these three, but as far as New Yorkers are concerned they are out of luck relative to the Carter. Oh, yes, the Carter will go on teevee waves and the boys and girls in Podunk Junction and other centers will have the laugh on blase metropplitanites. This area will be blacked out, due to other advertising commitments made some time ago. Well, that wont happen to the Dwyer and, Brooklyn. Nashua is a popular teevee figure. He never has scaled the heights that were easy leaps for Native Dancer, but he is coming along slowly and steadily for that magic slogan, trying to becomei a millionaire, has the boys and girls of the hinterland interested, and thats what counts with the ratings or what have you. Anyway, Aqueduct winds up this, meeting, the fifty-ninth, on a pleasant prospect for Nashua, High Gun and Helioscope dont come along every year in racing, which is really too bad. John C. Bruno, of the Pen and Pencil Club, who has a few horses in training with G. P. "Maje" Odom, planes over to Europe this week end for a prolonged vacation. He plans to visit the National Stud in Ireland and other noted nurseries on the continent. . . . Jack Skinner left for his farm, Middleburg, Va., and while there will inspect the progress on the new mile training track under construction in that area. The training track will be a community affair for horsemen wintering in that sector. . . . Trainer Walter Kelley at Jamaica accepted a. couple of new arrivals from Ireland consigned to Elmendorf. They are Mars and Wagner. ... At this stage of the meeting, 104 races have been contested and four jockeys accounted .for 43 of them. They are Atkinson, Arcaro, Guerin and Boland. . . . "Baldy" Tinker is back in training harness when he took over a recent arrival from River Downs in Ohio, Mr.. Babb. Hobo King was shipped in from Narragansett Park and turned over to J. W. "Buddy" Mayberry to train. . . . John Barry Ryan is due back from his European holiday this week end. He relayed word that he will be a frequent visitor before the annual trek to Saratoga Springs. . . . Track superintendent Dick Strickland has delegated his maintenance force at Jamaica to hang the summer screen doors oh the dormitories and tack room doors at that track. . . . Trainer Sherrill Ward stated that Two Stars will remain here and later head the shipment to Saratoga Springs. Her engagements at the upstate track will be widely spaced. He also reported that Summer Tan is, .according to the veterinarians, showing some improvement. . . . Mr. and Mrs. Frank C. Rand left for their Santa Fe, New Mexico, home, but will return eastward for the Saratoga season. Ex-Rider Porch to Be Hazel Park Official Jockey Eric Guerin will go to Delaware Park over the week end to ride Parlo, owned by Foxcatcher Farm, in the Delaware Handicap. He is due back on Monday to accept mounts here. . . . Former jockey Gerald Porch, whose retirement from the saddle ranks was brought on by broken bones and a punctured lung, was a visitor. He is. en route to Detroit, where a Hazel Park he serves as a patrol judge. . . . The racing clans extended their sympathy to Charlie Tudor, the jockey agent, over the passing of his wife. She died following a lingering illness. . . . Jockey Sammy Boulmetis will be here from New Jersey to ride Helioscope in the Carter Handicap. . . . The grapevine was busy this morning with reports relative to the construction of a new hotel in Saratoga Springs. No confirmation was available from sources who should know, officers of the Saratoga association. Howard A. Flannigan, U. S. N.f retired, was on hand to witness his juvenile, Tanker, perform in the two-year-old offering. . . . Tom J. Smith, the Australian trainer, he is one of the leaders in the land "Down Under," reported that he has 47 horses for 27 patrons. He acquired, while in England, several fillies destined Jor the stud following the completion of their racing careers. He makes his headquarters at Randwick, near Sydney, and was amazed at the year around racing in this country. Racing is conducted in Sydney on a two-day per week basis, with bookmakers and totalizators in use, with the former the more popular with the crowds. He also stated that the week-day crowds average about 17,000, Saturdays about 30,000, and the big cup days around 70,000.
