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HAMPTON CUP NEXT SATURDAY Dark Secret Considered Certain Starter in Rockinghams Coming Half -Holiday Attraction. SALEM, N. H., July 18.— Going to the post in the Hampton Cup Handicap Saturday against Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitneys Collateral and Roustabout, the Catawba Farms Mr. Khayyam, the Belair Studs Fleam, Willis Sharpe Kilmers Sunador and Dark Winter, F. S. Griffiths Sarada and other horses which have been making racing history at the Salem course, will be several newcomers, including the Wheatley Stables Dark Secret, who conquered the great Equipoise in The Jockey Clubs Gold Cup at Belmont. The flying grandson of King James in a certain way is living up to his name. He is no "dark secret" as far as his racing goes, j What mystifies the racegoers is the way he has changed color. When Mrs. H. C. Phipps, sister of Ogden Mills, former United States treasurer, bought Dark Secret for ,000 as a two-year-old from the late Gifford Cochrane in the spring of 1931, he was almost a solid bay. The few gray hairs near his tail continued to spread and soon he became almost a roan. The signs now are that he eventually will become a silver gray. Other newcomers which have been nominated for the Hampton Cup, which will be run over the mile and one-eighth route, are Faireno, the Belair Studs bay son of Chat-terton — Minerva, and Thursday, S. L. Burchs brown son of Mars — Pretty Day.
