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PHIPPS DELAWARE OAKS HOPE Acorn Stakes Winner, Hostility, Is Entered in Stanton Feature. May Oppose Cicncia and Alms When Race Is Run— Forty-Two Other Fillies Made Eligible. WILMINGTON, Del., May 26— Hostility, the bay daughter of Man o War — Marguerite de Valois, which won the eighth revival of the Acorn Stakes at Belmont Park, Thursday, obviously, is Mrs. Henry Carnegie Phipps real Delaware Oaks hope, although most racing folk had been thinking that the better known Matterhorn was, and Hostility is the third of forty-two Oaks eligibles to make the big headlines of the sports pages this season. The other two are Ciencia, of the King Ranch stable, and Anthony Pelleteris Alms. Ciencia is the daughter of Cohort, which won the first of the 0,000 Derbys, although that fact has been almost forgotten, so steamed up are racing folk of the more recent form of Johnstown, which defeated Challedon very easily in the Kentucky Derby revival, and Challedon, which beat Johnstown just as easily in the subsequent Preak-ness and Ciencia, too. CLENCIAS ALD3I. But when they readjust their sights the dopesters probably will accept the muddy track alibi for Ciencia, as they have for Johnstown in the Preakness matter and set the daughter of Cohort back on the pedestal to which she first climbed when she licked Xalapa Clown, Impound and Porters Mite and several other smart colts and fillies for 1,850 in the fifth Santa Anita Derby. Ciencia got the Santa Anita Derby mile and a furlong in 1:50%. which was stepping for a three-year-old filly packing 115 "pounds in February, and she is as right as rain again. If she doesnt make the Delaware Oaks, a ,000 dash of one mile and a furlong, to be renewed at Stanton, June 17, Robert Kleberg, of the King Ranch, and his capable trainers, Max and "Buddy" Hirsch, will be keenly disappointed. Alms, a daughter of St. Brideaux — Bonus, hence a half sister to Twenty Grand, which raced only twice last season, has had two big days this year. KEPT OUT OF OAKS. . At New Orleans in March she finished second to Day Off in the eighteenth Louisiana Derby, Day Off winning under the silks of Mrs. Helen Hay Whitney, who bred Alms and sold her to Pelleteri. And at Pimlico on May 6 she outfooted Otra, Morstep, Solar Flight, Matterhorn, Fictitious and Wise Lady for 0,175 in the sixteenth Pimlico Oaks, a dash of one mile and a sixteenth. Ciencia vanned from Long Island to start in the Pimlico Oaks, but sidestepped at the last minute. "Buddy" Hirsch was afraid that a racing accident might prevent her from tackling Johnstown and Challedon in the Preakness. Possibly it was because of the poor showing of Matterhorn in the Pimlico Oaks that Hostility bore the Wheatley Stable silks in the Acorn. The Acorn was a sort of Delaware Oaks preview, Hostility winning easily and earning 2,100 while defeating William Woodwards Oaks aspirant Wise Lady, with Charlotte Girl, Otra, Grandiflora and Solar Flight, Oaks nominations of Elmer Sachsenmaier, King Ranch, Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane and Mrs. Walter M. Jeffords, trailing. Beaten six times last season and twice before she started in the Acorn still a maiden, Hostility, which is a home-bred, appears to be something of a filly. She raced from behind in the stretch to win in 1:39%, the Acorn distance being one mile. She was one of a bunch of maidens which Christiana Stables colt Foxshade outran in a dash of a mile and seventy yards at Pimlico. Wise Lady, a daughter of Gallant Fox — Minerva, won one of eleven races last season and. has been beaten three times this year. She and Hostility are trained by James Fitzsimmons, who also is training Johnstown, Gilded Knight and Fighting Fox.
