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BRADYS DELAWARE HOPEFULS ! Bold Stroke, War Magic and War Plumage Stables "Big" Horses. Costly War Feathers Dam of War Magic and War Plumage — Latter Among the Stanton Oaks Eligibles. WILMINGTON, Del., May 27 —Bold Stroke, War Magic and War Plumage are the "big horses" of the stable that will represent James Cox Brady at Delaware Park in the course of the five weeks racing that will begin Decoration Day, May 30, with the first renewal of the ,000 Wilmington Handicap as its salutatory attraction. War Plumage and War Magic claim for dam in War Feathers, a daughter of Man o War and Tuscan Red, a fifty grand flop as a race horse that has come through right handsomely in production. The current Bradys father paid 0,500, to be exact, for War Feathers at one of the late Adm. Graysons thoroughbred yearling sales at Saratoga and got nothing in racing from her but a succession of headaches. In the stud the daughter of Man o* War proved a success from the start, although she hasnt sent up a "top sawyer" yet. Perhaps War Minstrel is the better of her other two that have entered the winners circle, although Brown Feathers, the first, wasnt a "washout." Anyhow War Minstrel licked Seabiscuit last summer in a renewal at Arlington Park, Chicago, of the Stars and Stripes Handicap. The year before last he won a Yankee Handicap in New England. ON SCENE IN 1938. All three of these horses raced last summer at Delaware Park, and War Magic, a strikingly handsome son of Pharamond II., made something of an impression June 17 when he defeated Lucky Omen, Dah He, Jon Jon and Birthday in a condition race in which he stepped one mile and seventy yards in 1:4315 and equalled the track record. He looked better still a week or ten days later, outfooting Mythical King, Lucky Omen, Hypocrite, Jolly Tar and Dah He in the second Diamond State Stakes in which he earned ,800. That was his last win, however, and he missed three times in the winter past on the Pacific Coast. His engagements at Delaware Park this summer are in the Brandy-wine and Sussex Handicaps, ,000 and 0,-000 dashes of one mile and a sixteenth and one mile and a quarter, respectively, set for June 3 and June 4, both for three-year-olds and over. War Plumage, whose daddy is On Watch, made her racing bow June 18 and Post Luck took her in a sprint of five furlongs. She was better the next time out, but not quite good enough to beat the Maryland-bred Buds Bell, a sister of Thanksgiving, in the second Polly Drummond. Finishing Buds Bell had a margin of about three inches. War Plumage whipped Soldierette, Sun Girl, Suzanne Peck, Post Luck, Egoiste, Solar Flight, Grand Pageant and Lerno. DIFFICULT TASK. At the moment War Plumage is being prettied up for quite a task. If all continues to go well with her she will tackle Hostility, Ciencia, Alms, Aerial Bomb and some others like that June 17th in the ,000 Delaware Oaks, a dash of one mile and a furlong. She is also in the New Castle Handicap, a 0,000 breather of one mile and a sixteenth, set for June 10. That promises to be a tougher race than the Oaks because the* best older mares in training, such as Jacola, Par Scout, Roguish Girl, Savage Beauty, Roseretter, Rehearsal, Sweet Adeline, Fair Stein, Short Distance, Lady Maryland, Roman Lady and Es-posa, as well as the smarter three-year-olds, are New Castle eligibles, too. Bold Stroke, a son of Sir Greysteel and J Silver Clasp, bred by the Labrots in Maryland, did not win at Stanton last summer, but he showed plenty in each of the three dashes for maidens he made and nobody who watched him was surprised at his winning three times after he left. Not improbably he will be better this season than he was last. The Sir Greysteels are a tough, enduring breed. Among them were Springsteel and Tred Avon, and Monel and Lady Maryland. All four of these appeared to get better and better up to the very time of retirement.
