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DELAWARE ATTRACTS SANDE Maxwell Howard Trainer Asks for Stalls at Eastern Track. Stagehand and Sceneshifter Probable Starters in Features Offered During Coming June Meeting. WILMINGTON, Del., April 22. Participation by Stagehand, the current three-year-old sensation, in the twenty-eight days rac ing at Delaware Park that will begin June 8, was promised today when Earl Sande wired from Louisville reserving stabling for a dozen of Col. Maxwell Howards horses. Favorite in the Kentucky Derby futures since his dazzling victory over Seabiscuit in the fourth Santa Anita Handicap, Stagehand is now at Churchill Downs with Sceneshifter and the other Howard horses, and he is training so well it seems certain that he will get to the post the Derby favorite. His victories in the Santa Anita Derby revival and the fourth Santa Anita Handicap, which netted 2,350 and 1,450, respectively, swelled the total of his earnings to 36,700 and of his stables to 39,500. He won three overnight races before defeating Dauber and Sun Egret and seven or eight others in the Derby. Sceneshifter scored twice before Stagehand, Seabiscuit, Pompoon, Gosum, Aneroid and Star Shadow beat him in the big handicap. LEADING MONEY WINNER. Stagehand is now the years biggest thoroughbred gleaner and so far in front he will take a lot of catching. Maybe he wont be caught. Competition in the three-year-olds field will be exceptionally keen unless the future betting about the Kentucky Derby is misleading. Forty-odd Derby candidates have been more or less heavily played as against an average of less than twenty a season over a period of twenty years. No one colt seems fated to step down the line, taking practically everything, as Reigh Count, Gallant Fox, Twenty Grand and Omaha each did in his season and War Admiral would have if he had not injured himself so severely in the sixty-ninth Belmont he had to lay up through the summer past. Delaware Park stakes for three-year-olda in which Stagehand will be entered are the ,000 Diamond State, one mile and a furlong, and the 0,000 Kent Handicap, one mile and a sixteenth. He will be named, also, for the Sussex Handicap, a 0,000 gallop of one mile and a quarter for three-year-olds and over set for July 9, the last day of the meeting. These and ten other specials, including three new steeplechases, will close April 18, next Monday. There will be about 50,000 for the horses in purses in the twenty-eight days.
