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KENT HANDICAP VALUABLE Earl Sande Believes Stagehand Will Be Ready in Time. Informs Delaware Park Officials His Star Should Be Ready in About Four Weeks Time. WILMINGTON, Del., May 19.— Earl Sande has written that he cant be sure as to when his Santa Anita double crown winner of last I winter, Col. Maxwell Howards Stagehand, the countrys leading thoroughbred gleaner ; this year, will be racing again, but that he ; is fairly certain that Stagehands publio I wont have to wait longer than three or four I more weeks. Stagehand suffered only a slight attack of influenza at Churchill Downs while training for the Kentucky Derby and he ran a slight temperature only a couple of days. It was to this sickness which had not manifested itself that his poor showing in the Derby Trial Stakes which The Chief won with Lawrin second is attributed by Sande. And it was because of : it that he was withdrawn from both the Derby and the Preakness. MAY START. If Sande is not disappointed Stagehand ! will make the Kent Handicap, July 2, the j Kent being a 0,000 dash of one mile and a ! sixteenth for the richest special for three-year-olds that will be decided at Delaware Park in the course of the twenty-eight days of racing that will begin there June 8. The Chief is another Kent eligible and on the form the three colts showed in the Derby Trial he may be better than either Lawrin 1 or Stagehand at one mile or one mile and a I sixteenth. Like Dauber, The Chief is a son j of Pennant, and as Dauber was an acquisi-j tion of William du Ponts at the C. V. Whitney dispersal sale at Pimlico last November, ; he was one of Howards. He was a 4,000 I colt; Dauber cost 7,000. It looks as though I both were good buys. LAWRIN NOT ELIGIBLE. Dauber, which finished second to Stagehand in the Sanita Anita Derby and second to Lawrin in the Kentucky Derby, is in the I Kent, but Lawrin is not. Lawrins development of the form that saw him victorious in the Flamingo Stakes and the Kentucky revivals seems to have been unexpected. He has very few summer engagements of importance. Hal Price Headleys Chesapeake Stakes winner Bourbon King is in and Myron Selzniks Cant Wait. But Headleys Belmont Futurity winner of last season is not. Headleys stable is so well stocked this season racing all his horses in one sector would not be good business. Menow will campaign with the western division of it. Headley is one of the considerable nominators in Delaware Park stakes. He will have his entire eastern division here through the meeting. There are fifty-six eligibles altogether, so there should be close to 0,000 for the winner. The nomination and starting fees will foot up about ,000. Among the other eligibles that have attracted attention this season are Donald Ross Bull Whip, William Woodwards Fighting Fox, Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilts Red Pepper, Alvin Untermyers Chaps, George D. Wideners Grasscutter, Mrs. Henry C. Phipps Stormscud, Ogden Phipps Magic Hour, Mrs. Parker Comings Thanksgiving, Ral Parrs Hypocrite, Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloanes War Peril, B. F. Whitakers Crepe and Mythical King, Bomar Stables Benjam and Mrs. E. Graham Lewis Great Union. W. S. Kilmers disappointing Nedayr is in with his stable companion, Sun Alexandria, and it might not be smart to pass him up yet. He beat pretty good horses at Pimlico last fall in revivals of the Walden Handicap and the Pimlico Futurity and he may recapture that form at any time. ♦
