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PLACINTOS BIG OPPORTUNITY San Francisco Boy to Pilot Boeing Horses at Delaware. Hornings Predict Boy Will Do as Well or Better Than L. Dupps Did at Stanton In 1938. WILMINGTON, Del., May 29.— It was at Delaware Park last summer that the ci-devant bellhop from Louisville, L. Dupps, developed the stuff that was to enable him •to ride 126 winners before the end of the season to finish among the first fifteen of the jockeys of 1938. Before he came to Delaware Dupps was just another promising kid who had ridden fifteen or twenty winners at New Orleans and in Maryland. But he got going here and kept right on elsewhere. In the division of the big stable of W. E. Boeing young Lester Horning is handling, there is a lad answering to the operatic name of Ralph Placinto, whom both the Hornings — Lester and his dad, Ted — predict will be the Dupps of the third Delaware Park meeting, which will begin Decoration Day to run through the 4th of July. Eighteen and balancing the scales with riding equipment at 102 pounds, young Ralph is a California native son, born and brought up in San Francesco, and he has had a career much like that of Dupps prior to last seasons session at Stanton. But he hasnt had much of a chance yet because he has been second to Johnny Adams. At Delaware Park he will be the stable jock, however. HORNINGS DIVISION. In Lester Hornings division of the Boeing stable are the matured horses Parscout, Murph, Open Door, Miscompute, Grim Reap-.er and Lady Jaqueline and the two-year-olds Liberty Mint, Skeena, Picture Bride, Air Stream, Peter Porter, Birdhaven and Air Speed and all of them are right. Parscout, a daughter of The Scout and a winner at Santa Anita in the winter, was good enough at Pimlico last week to take such as Kenty, Short Distance, Rex Flag, Conquer and Mr. Canron in a dash of one mile and seventy yards. Murph, a sprinter by Haste, which Mrs. Ethel Mars bought as a yearling and named for her boon companion, who is a sister of United States Attorney-General Frank Murphy, and sold to Boeing a year back, was another of last winters winner in California. Grim Reaper, a four-year-old by Sickle, and the winner last year of a California Derby and a San Bruno handicap, should start in the ,000 Brandywine Handicap June 3, with Piccolo, which is in the New ] York division of the stable Father Ted is handling. Horning, the older, has the 0,-000 New Castle Handicap, Delaware Parks special for mares three years old and over, in mind for Parscout, and Miscompute is his Delaware Oaks hope. Young Placinto won a couple of races on her in Calfornia. If Parscout looks as good getaway day as she did winning at Pimlico, she will try her luck, probably with Piccolo in the 0,000 j Sussex Handicap, a gallop of one mile and a quarter, for three-year-olds and over, of all sorts. % j
