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pW TRACK DRAWS ANEROID Winner of Suburban Handicap De-t yelops from Sprinter to Stayer. Busgex and Brandywine Handicaps Particular Objectives of Manf uso Horso at Delaware Park. WILMINGTON, Del., June 8. Aneroid, hero of the fastest -Suburban Handicap ever irun if the contention that The Jockey Clubs bid timer, William H. Baretto, erred when ne credited Whisk Broom II. with having stepped a mile and a quarter in 2:00 flat in the renewal of 1913, is accepted, will be. a headliner in the racing of the Delaware Steeplechase and Race Association that will begin at Delaware Park, June 26 and continue through July 24. Dion Keith Kerr, of Chevy Chase, his trainer, stated in a letter received today by general manager Edward Burke that the son of The Porter and Outburst would be one of a half a dozen horses he will have here for the opening. Delaware Park is seven miles southwest of Wilmington. The others of Kerrs string are the three-year-olds Carnarvon, Westbrook, True Tune and Heartease, and the two-year-old Equerry. Aneroid is owned- by J. A. Manfuso, of Washington, a son-in-law of the late Dr. J. F. Tyree, who bred and raced horses in the last decade of the last century and the first of this- and was known by sportsmen the country over. The son of The Porter vill point particularly for the inaugurals of the ;500 Brandywine Handicap, one mile and a sixteenth, which will be run July 3, and the 0,000 Sussex Handicap, one mile and a quarter, which will be run July 17. He will start in some other races of course. Kerr will bring him down from Long Island after he fills engagements at Aqueduct in the Brooklyn and Brookdale Handicaps. 1 . DEFEATED CRACK BAND. When Aneroid defeated Esposa, Memory Book, Maeriel, Count Arthur, Rosemont, Snark, Dark Hope and Star Shadow in the fifty-first revival of New Yorks oldest and most popular race of one mile and a quarter for three-year-olds and upward he lowered the accepted record for the race and the course by two-fifths of a second, Equipoise, in 1933, and Head Play, in 1935, each having scored in 2:02 flat. Aneroid was bred by the Jock Whitneys in Virginia and sold as a yearling. Kerr developed him and has always trained him, but he has not always raced under Man-fusos silks. Last year lie won a Blackstone Valley Handicap, at Narraganset Park, .and five other races, earning ,830. He was j beaten at Pimlico in May in a Dixie Handicap renewal, one mile and three-sixteenths, ! by Calumet Dick and Finance, but persons watched that race hold that he would have won if Calumet DJ.ck had not crowded him rudely in the home stretch. Calumet Dick won this Dixie in 1:58, which time was only two-fifths of a second behind the track record. Before the Dixie this spring Aneroid won a Baltimore Spring Handicap, at Pimlico, a Hartford Handicap, at Havre de Grace, and a Severn Handicap, at Bowie, all races of three-quarters of a. mile. Until the Dixie her was generally rated a sprinter. Obvi-1 ously he is one of -the- best- distance runners ! in the country now, if not the very best. !
