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TWO RICH JUMPING STAKES ,000 Added to Georgetown and Indian River Steeplechases. Jumping Race Every Day at Delaware Park After June 7 — Eastern Sportsmen Support Both Races. WILMINGTON, Delaware, May 1— The most generously dowered annuals of American steeplechasing, the Georgetown and Indian River handicaps, each with an added money value of ,000, which will be revived at Delaware Park in the course of a race meeting that will begin May 30 — Decoration Day — and continue through July 4, have filled satisfactory. So has the Vicmead, a highweight affair for hunters that will pay ,500 in added money. Fifty-two horses four-year-old and over have been named for the Georgetown, a gallop of two miles, to be run on June 14; forty-eight for the, Indian River, an affair of two miles and. a half, scheduled for June 21; and forty-j three for the Vicmead, another two-miles-: and-a-half test, set for July 3, and there are several quarters from which nominations might come yet to report. CHASE A DAY. There will be no steeplechasing at Delaware Park until the spring meeting at Belmont Park ends June 7. After that, though, there will be a chase a day, provided enough suitable jumpers are available. Steeplechasing was inaugurated at Stanton last summer during the second annual meeting of the Delaware Steeplechase and Race Association and it was well received. This was. to have been expected. Wilmington is really the hub of the finest country for fencing in the United States and Fair Hills, the worlds most splendid course for jumpers, is only about twenty miles to the westward. The names of the horses named will be announced when all the returns are in. NOMINATORS. Nominators in these three specials are Mrs. Helen Hay Whitney, Mrs. F. Ambrose Clark, Mrs. Marion duPont Scott, Gwladys Whitney, Mrs. Turner Wiltshire, Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane, Mrs. Arthur White, Mrs. Kenneth Gilpin, Mrs. Campbell Weir, Mrs. Walter M. Jeffords, Mrs. J. C. Clark, Mrs. D. A. Buckley, Mrs. Manton Metcalf, Jr., William duPont, Louis E. Stoddard, Henry" B. Bartow, Jr., Donald P. Ross, Ewart Johnston, H. E. Talbot, R. E. Reigel, O. D. Filley, Jack McKeon, T. T Mott, S. Bryce Wing, J. Fred Adams, Jr., Ewart Johnston, Walter M. Jeffords, Paul Mallon, R. E. Mc-Connell, W. T. Northgrave, Walter Wickes, Jr., R. V. N. Gambrill, L. W. Robinson, Jr., Raymond Guest. Also Kenneth N. Gilpin, F. Ambrose Clark, H. E. Talbot, Louis B. Mayer, Thomas Hitchcock, Leigh M. McCarthy, J. T. Skinner, G. H. "Pete" Bostwick, Carroll H. Bassett, Henry S. Horkheimer, and the Northwood, Raritan and Rokeby stables.
