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DELAWARE FEATURES CLOSING! Thirteen Attractive Stakes Listed, Including Three Worth 0,000. Diamond State Stakes and Delaware Oaks of 1940 Also Closing on April 19 Steeplechases Included. WILMINGTON, Del., April 15. Horsemen and horsewomen who may be thinking of racing thoroughbreds of the first bracket at Delaware Park during the third summer meeting of the Delaware Steeplechase and Race Association at Delaware Park have only a few days more in which to make stake nominations. This meeting will begin May 30, a little earlier in the season than last year, and run through July 4, omitting June 12. It will be the longest yet at the Atlantic seaboards newest racing plant. Edward Burke, one of the vice-presidents of the association, as well as director-general of the racing at Havre de Grace, will manage it. Most of his Havre de Grace staff of experienced helpers will be with him, just as they were last year and the year before. The thirteen annuals that constituted the stake program of last season wi!l be renewed and April 19 has been fixed as the day of their closing. Postmarks must indicate that envelopes containing nominations were in the mail by midnight. The thirteen stakes are: Wilmington Handicap ,000 added, for three-year-olds and upward; six furlongs. Brandywine Handicap ,000 added, for three-year-olds and upward; one mile and a sixteenth. Dover Stakes ,000 added, for two-year-olds; five furlongs. Newcastle Handicap 0,000 added, for fillies and mares, three-year-olds and upward; one mile and a sixteenth. Georgetown Steeplechase Handicap ,000 added, for four-year-olds and upward; about two miles. Delaware Oaks ,000 added, for three-year-old fillies; one mile and a furlong. Polly Drummond Stakes ,000 added, for two-year-old fillies; five furlongs. Indian River Steeplechase ,000 added, for four-year-olds and upward; about two miles and a half. Kent Handicap 0,000 added, for three-year-olds; one mile and a sixteenth. Diamond State Stakes ,000 added, for three-year-olds; one mile and a furlong. Christiana Stakes ,000 added, for two-year-old colts and geldings; five and one-half furlongs. Vicmead Highweight Steeplechase Handicap ,500 added, for four-year-olds and upward; two miles and a half brush course. Sussex Handicap 0,000 added, for three-year-olds and upward; one mile and a quar-! ter. Also on April 19, which will be this coming Wednesday, there will be an early closing of the Diamond State Stakes and Delaware Oaks of 1940. As regards value and distance these 1940 specials will be the same as this year. The Wilmington Handicap will be the salu-tory attraction, May 30; the Sussex Handicap the valedictory feature, July 4. May 30, by the way, will be Decoration Day. There will be no steeplechasing until after the finish of the Belmont Park spring meeting, June 7. The first stake for jumpers to be revived will be the Georgetown June 14. Mail must be directed to Box 268, Wilmington, Del. The headquarters of the Association is in the Delaware Trust Building. i
