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i j , 1 j j ! • i EIGHT THIRTY MAKING READY Three-Year-Old Son of Pilate Being Pointed for Delaware Stakes. Has Engagements in Kent Handicap, Diamond State Stakes and Sussex Handicap — Training Soundly at Farm. WILMINGTON, Del., May 20.— Eight Thirty, homebred hero of last seasons revival at Delaware Park of the Christiana" Stakes, winner at Saratoga of the Flash Stakes and Albany Handicap, although he-lost the Albany through disqualificaton, and second horse at the finish of the Belmont Futurity, is back at George D. Wideners Erdenheim Farm getting ready for more Delaware Park racing. The grizzled trainer Jack Joyner took Eight Thirty from Chestnut Hill to Long Island four or five weeks back confident that he would hold his own with last seasons unbeaten three-year-old star El Chico in sundry Jamaica and Belmont Park spring stake revivals. He was not thinking of Johnstown, then hadnt Eight Thirty licked the big son of Jamestown soundly in both the Flash and the Belmont Futurity and hadnt El Chico beaten him a couple of times too? Nor was anybody else taking the "Johnstown for champion" cry coming from Aqueduct seriously. Eight Thirty had trained well and physically was right. CHANGE IN YEAR. But some horses do not always perform at three to the promise of their juvenile form and others go better, vastly better. Eight Thirty appears to be one of the former kind. That is why he is at Erdenheim now marking time for a spell. Joyner is confident that he will be in racing fettle again come June because the son of Pilate and Dinner Time is still in robust health and continues to reveal plenty of speed against the watch. If Joyner and Widener are not disappointed again, Eight Thirty will fill his Stanton engagements which are in the 0,000 Kent Handicap, which will be run June 24, and the ,000 Diamond States Stakes, which will be revived July 1, and the1 0,000 Sussex Handicap, which will be the getaway day attraction of the Delaware Steeplechase and Racing Associations thirty days meeting, July 4. The fact that Eight Thirtys eligibility for the Sussex Handicap indicates the high ex-pec xtions Widener and Joyner had of the colt through the winter and in the early spring. The Sussex Handicap is a gallop of one mile and a quarter for three-year-olds and over and horsemen do not generally race three-year-olds against first-class runners of mature years in the first week of July un-, less those three-yeai-olds are exceptionally stout. The Kent Handicap is at one mile ■and a sixteenth for three-year-olds exclusively, the Diamond State Stakes is at one mile and a furlong. The three-year-olds Exploded and Birch Rod are in the Sussex with Eight Thirty. Birch Rod, Dr. Whinny and Salamis are the Widener eligibles for the ,000 Wilmington Handicap, a sprint of six furlongs, which will be the first days fea-j ture, May 30.
