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1 RICH PRIZE FOR WEAKER SEX Newcastle Handicap at New Dela-: ware Track 0,000 Turf Prize. Dawn Play and High Fleet Expected to Compete and Fnrnish Thrilling Contest on July 27. : WILMINGTON, Del., June 14. The inaugural July 27 of the Newcastle Handicap, a 0,000 gallop of one mile and a quarter for mares three years old and upward at Delaware Park, the countrys newest race course, may be marked by a meeting between High Fleet and Dawn Play, winners of the last two revivals of the Coaching Club American Oaks. Anyhow both are pointing for it. The Newcastle will be the last race of high value of the season exclusively for mares. Also it will be the richest event of the year in which mares past three years old will not have to compete with stallions. From the time angle Dawn Play is a better filly this year than High Fleet was last and both are better than Top Flight, winner of the revival of 1932, which knocked off racing with earnings of 75,900, the most considerable gleaner among the mares of all time. The only horses -that have outearned her have been the Americans Sun Beau, Equipoise, Gallant Fox, Zev and Mate, the English steeds Isinglass and Donovan, and the Australian Phar Lap. Top Flight won her Oaks easily enough but in 2:20. High Fleet won hers in 2:19, Dawn Play hera.in 2:18. There is no chance though that either High Fleet or Dawn Play will earn as much money, or half as much as Top Flight did. It is not offered to earn. HIGH FLEETS RECORD. After her victory of last season High Fleet raced on to win a New England Oaks and Weybosset and Mary Dyer Handicaps at Narragansett Park and finish second in a Gazelle, at Aqueduct, and an Alabama, at Saratoga, and a Potomac Handicap at Havre de Grace. She had previously won an Acorn, at Belmont Park. Her earnings topped 2,000. Dawn Play won a renewal of the Acorn before her handsome score of last Thursday. In consequence of these two victories she is upward of twenty grand to the good. The widespread appeal of racing is illustrated in the ownership of these candidates for Delaware Parks unique special. High Fleet, a daughter of Jack High and Armada, was raised by George Widener, a Philadel-phian, at his Erdenheim farm just outside the city. The nominator of Dawn Play is Robert J. Kleburgh, who affects the racing alias King Ranch. The King Ranch is one of the great cattle principalities of southern Texas. The Rio Grande separates miles of it from Mexico. In area it is about the size of the state of Delaware. Kleburgh bought Dawn Play at public auction at Saratoga a couple of seasons back for ,100. Morton Schwartz bred her and Max Hirsch developed her as he had Split Second, another King Ranch mare, the contender in the Oaks of 1936. With Hirsch as adviser, Kleburgh has been stocking King Ranch with high class young stuff for years. It will not be long until he is breeding his own.
