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BURCH MISSES PAIR OF STARS Without Firethorn and Matey for1 Delaware Park Campaign. New Course Home Track of Mr. and Mrt, Walter M. Jeffords Jean Bart In Brandywine Handicap. WILMINGTON, Del., June 19. Preston Burch would be better pleased with the racing hand with which Mr. and Mrs. Walter Jeffords, of Philadelphia, will sit in the new game at Delaware Park, June 26 to July 24, if Firethorn and Matey were right. In Fire-thorn he would have a horse capable of disputing the 0,000 Sussex Handicap purse with Rosemont and Aneroid and in Matey, a son of Man o War and Tavy, which lost last Novembers Pimlico Futurity purse by a nose to Privileged but got the purse when Privileged was disqualified, he would have a worthwhile candidate for the 0,000 Kent Handicap, which will be the first days feature. Firethorn, which licked Granville in last years Suburban Handicap, will be out of the running until fall. Matey is just recovering from an injury sustained at Pimlico in early May. . STRONG OUTFIT. Nevertheless, Burch will have a strong outfit and his employers are well pleased. Delaware Park is now the home track of the Jeffords, whose country place, at Glen Riddle, Pa., is only twenty-five or thirty minutes ride away. He has the four-year-old Jean Bart in tLe Brandywine Handicap, a dash of one mile and a furlong that will pay ,500, set for July 3, and Regal Lily in the 0,000 Newcastle Handicap, a dash of one mile and a sixteenth exclusively fpr mares three years old and upward, that will be run getaway day, July 24. It seems to be the intention of the Jeffords to keep Jean Bart out of races over longer distances than one mile and a furlong this year. Otherwise, he would be in the 0,000 Sussex Handicap, a gallop of one mile and a quarter that will be run July 17. Trained for speed since early spring, the Man o War four-year-old appears to have plenty of it. He made the light-footed Rebellion step three-quarters of a mile in 1:11 flat to beat him at Belmont Park. MAN O WAR FELLY. Regal Lily is a three-year-old daughter of Man o War and Regal Lady and she won two of five races last season and finished second in another. She can sprint and Burch is confident that she will stay at high speed as far as American horses are asked to gallop. Burch may regret that he did not nominate Rouge et Noir, a daughter of St. Germans and Baton Rouge, for the Newcastle with Regal Lily. Jolly Jack, which won at Belmont Park, is a son of Boatswain and Beatitude and home-bred. The Jeffords won a Withers revival at Belmont Park with Boatswain in 1932, Boatswain being a son of Man o War. It looks as though he might make good at the stud. If he does not do it at Aqueduct this week Burch will uncover a juvenile brother of Matey at Delaware Park and he has a couple of Man o Wars fillies that can step briskly.
