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SIR DAMON IN GOOD FORM Marshall Field Star One of Nominees for Brandywine Handicap. Delaware Park Stake Draws Star Band of Eligiblcs — Johnstown Also Among the Candidates. WILMINGTON, Del., May 17.— Marshall Fields fast stepping Sir Gallahad III. stallion Sir Damion has just signalized his return to eastern racing after an involuntary lay-off due to leg trouble of more than a year by defeating upward of a dozen of the T3est of his class in training in a renewal at Pimlico of the historic Dixie Handicap. He is one of forty-five nominations for the second revival at Delaware Park, June 5, of the Brandywine Handicap. Pasteurized, from Mrs. W. Plunkett Stewarts Pennsylvania establishment which George Odom is training with Sir Damion and twenty or thirty others, is a nominee also. With Pasteurized, a strapping son of Milkman, Odom won last years Belmont revival, in which the Preakness winner Dauber was defeated. A ,000 added money dash of one mile and a sixteenth, for three-year-olds and over, the Brandywine was inaugurated during the first meeting of the Delaware Steeplechase and Race Association and its first winner was Esposa. Dark Hope and Rex Flag finished second and third, respectively. Last years victor was Tatterdemalion, contender in last Wednesdays Dixie, Grand Slam running third. BRANDYWINE POSSIBILITY. The current three-year-old sensation, Johnstown, winner already this spring of a Paumonok Handicap, a Wood Memorial, a Kentucky Derby and an overnight race or so, is a Brandywine possibility, but manager Edward Burke is not counting on him seriously. Johnstown has too many attractive dates in races for three-year-olds. William . Woodward, chairman of The Jockey Club and Johnstowns owner, has, however, named a horse pretty sure to start in Fighting Fox, brother of Gallant Fox and another spring star, also, the British-bred Isolater. [ Other nominations are Donald P. Ross . Masked General, winner last week of an Old Dominion Handicap at Pimlico, and the Old i I Dominion contenders Piccolo, Pernie and | Rex Flag, likewise, Thanksgiving, Honey Cloud, Gerald, Clingendaal, Brown Knight, Grim Reaper, War Music, Challephen, Aethelwold, Handcuff, Lovely Night, Unfailing, Lucky Omen, Bourbon King, Arabs Arrow, Strabo, Nedayr, Sun Alexandria, Sweet Adeline, Burning Pace, Pagliacci, Shangay Lily, Ocean Roll, Hypocrite, Teufel, Lady Maryland, Last Message, Teddy Weed, Heel-fly, Mr. Canron, Sun Inplay, Mythical King, Sickle T. and Exploded. Nedayr won an Arlington Classic last summer, beating Stagehand and Bull Lea; Thanksgiving has won Excelsior and Philadelphia handicaps this spring; Strabo won the Diamond State Stakes and Kent Handicap inaugurals here two seasons back; Teddy Weed, a 0,000 Tropical Handicap in Florida in April. The Brandywine weights ! will be announced May 29. Burke expects ten i to fifteen starters. | » .
