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OPPORTUNITY FOR FILLIES Delaware Park Schedules 10000 Filly and Mare Eace Newcastle Handicap Inaugural Joint Fea ¬ ture on Final D y of Meeting at New Track WILMINGTON Del May 28 Profitable racing all over the country is provided for twoyes rold fillies in such specials as the Clipsetta Stakes at Latonia the Arlington Lassie at Chicago the Spinaway at Sara ¬ toga the Matron at Belmont Park and the Sclima at Laurel And Oaks races every ¬ where along with Alabamas and Acorns etc are revived annually for threeyearold fillies But for many years runners of the miscalled softer sex the sex of Top Flight Imp Miss Woolford Beldame Firenze Cleo ¬ patra and Artful have been neglected The older mares have had to do their running with stallions and generally hey have been outmatched outmatchedTo To the extent that one organization pro ¬ moting racing can rectify this neglect it is adjusted in the stakes program of the Wil ¬ mington Steeplechase and Race Association for the inaugural meeting at Delaware Park which will begin June 26 and continue through July 24 with a daily purse dis ¬ tribution of upward of 10000 10000MEETING MEETING ENDS JULY 24 24One One of three specials each of which will have an added money value of 10000 is restricted to mares three years old and over This the Newcastle Handicap Inaugural one mile and a sixteenth will be the joint feature of the last day of the meeting July 24 with Polly Drummond Stakes premiere I a dash of five furlongs exclusively for two yearold fillies The Polly Drummond will have an added money value of 5000 Nom ¬ inations for these stakes and five others the Sussex Kent and Brandywine Handi j caps and the Diamond State and Christiana Stakes will be received by Edward Burke general manager or John P Turner racing secretary at Delaware Park Stanton Dela between this and June 1 1Until Until the entries are in it will not be pos ¬ sible to say what mares may participate in the first running of this unique special but it is safe to predict that the best fillies and mares three years old and over which raced last season will be nominated with the win ¬ ners this year of the Oaks races of Mary ¬ land Kentucky and New York also of threeyearold fillies which have not won Oaks races but have otherwise demonstrat ¬ ed fitness to compete
