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I BEST HlRSES ALL ELIGIBLE Every Star in Country Nominated for 0,000 Sussex Handicap. Aneroid and Rosemont Head List of Brilliant Performers in Rich. Stake at Delaware Park. WILMINGTON, Del., June 16. The name of no horse of the first-class past three years old that will be racing on the Atlantic seaboard this summer is missing from the roster of eligibles for the 0,000 Sussex Handicap, Delaware Parks mile and a quarter gallop for three-year-olds and upward of both sexes that will have its premier July 17. Dion Keith Kerr has nominated J. A. Man-fusos Suburban Handicap winner Aneroid, one of the genuine sensations of the current springs sport, and William du Pont has named Rosemont like Aneroid, a son of The Porter winner in California last winter of revivals of the San Antonio and Santa Anita Handicaps, which, together, netted nearly 00,000. E. K. Bryson has put in the Dixie Handicap winner of last May, Calumet Dick, and Mrs. Helen Hay Whitney has nominated hei ace, Memory Book, one of St Germans very best sons. There are no long-chance entries among the thirty-two eligibles; only seasoned stuff of recently demonstrated merit. The. nominators beside Mrs. Whitney, du Pont, Bryson and Manfuso are the Araho Stable, the Brookmeade Stable, the Belair Stud, E. R. Bradley, the Branncastle Farm, Mrs. F. A. Carreaud, T. Lee Evans, William Graham, Kenneth Gilpin, Gilpin and Pike, Mrs. R. H. j Heighe, George D. Widener, W. Ellis Johnson, W. S. Kilmer, Hobson McGehee, J. W. Y. Martin, Cleveland Putnam, J. B. Partridge, A. T. Partridge, the Starmount Stable, Thomas H. Somerville, Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, the Wheatley Stable and William Ziegler, Jr. ELIGD3LE LIST. Here is the eligible list: New Deal, Car-vola, Good Goods, Bootless, War Glory, Rosemont, Kievex, Buck Langhorne, Kenty, High Fleet, Her Reigh, Fair Knightess, Moon Side, Conte, Treford, Snark, Calumet Dick, Corundum, Isolater, Challephen, Lucky Light, Gold Seeker, Memory Book, Oyster Bay, Purple Knight, Master Lad, Aneroid, Dark Hope, Sunanair, Reminding, Ptolemy, Esposa. It will not be long now before these Brandywine and Sussex candidates will be assembling at Delaware Park for the twenty-five days racing of the Delaware Steeplechase and Race Association. They will be leaving Aqueduct as rapidly as they complete their engagements there. General manager Edward Burke is ready for them. His stables are finished and his track is ready for work and racing. Superintendent Jimmy Ross has it like the Havre de Grace strip after a warm, but not-too-dry summer.
