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i 8 ] 9 3 l 9 j • j 9 3 8 3 6 5 I 8 3 3 7 l 0 . 9 9 1 1 2 9 3 7 7 8 g 7 j / -1 1 DELAWARE PARK NOTES Q $ Dolly Byers, former steeplechase rider, registered Golden Coin, Rural Run and Mr. Pink to represent the Foxcatcher Farms sta- ble in steeplechase events. Dewey Bentham brought the useful horses Bill D., Baby Talk and Mr. Knick here for racing. The shipment came from Belmont Park. G. P. Odom brought five horses here from New York, which will race for Mrs. W. Plun- ket Stewart and Marshal Field. Bert McDonald, who was at Charles Town, W. Va., for the first half of the meeting at the Shenandoah Valley track, arrived to take in the racing here. Jockey M. Peters, who rode Fairy Chant in the Astoria Stakes at Aqueduct on Wednesday, returned here and accepted seven mounts on Thursday. Track superintendent James Ross had a large track crew employed clearing the drainage system along the inner rail at Del- aware Park after work hours on Thursday. Tall Trees Stables two-year-old Bonivant, a starter in the first race Thursday, per- formed without blinkers in order to curb his tardiness leaving the gate. In the absence of trainer Richard Hand- len, who was at Aqueduct Wednesday to saddle Fairy Chant in the Astoria Stakes, Selby Burch attended to the saddling of the Fox-catcher Farms Felsun here. Jockey Lucas Dupps, who rode Arden Lass to victory for Jouett Shouse in the Betsy Ross Stakes at Suffolk Downs last Saturday, will ride the same filly in the Polly Drum-mond Stakes here on Saturday. Dupps is coming from New England to accept the en-: gagement. *
