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MANY BIG STABLES GET IN AT DELAWARE PARK PARKFour Four Carloads of Thoroughbreds Arrive From Louisville Other Eastern Establishments Are Due DueWILMINGTON WILMINGTON Del May 23 Four car ¬ loads of thoroughbreds including some of the best known horses in training in the West arrived from Louisville this week at Delaware Park for the race meeting open ¬ ing May 30 Representing such vell known owners as Joseph E Widener Tall Trees Stable W E Smith Baylor Hickman and E A Stone the newcomers joined several hundred horses already on the grounds who had been vanned up from Maryland and other tracks tracksHorses Horses preparing at Delaware for the fourteen stakes which stud the meeting are more numerous than at this time last year and once more the overflow is to be accom ¬ modated at Fair Hill the stabling ground of the Foxcatcher Hunt meeting General manager Edward Burke and racing secre ¬ tary Edward Brennan have attracted top horses in all divisions and have been espe ¬ cially hard put to it to take care of the large number of twoyearolds twoyearoldsMILLSDALE MILLSDALE COLORBEARERS COLORBEARERSAmong Among older horses already on theground are Sun Lover and Kansas both representa ¬ tives of the Anthony PelleteriMillsdale Sta ¬ ble string which well may be the largest at Delaware Mr Pelleteri has above twenty horses stabled at the park now Dixiana the establishment of Charles T Fisher is on the ground with almost a score scoreIn In the shipments from Louisville came nineteen in the Widener string including the top filly Misty Isle W E Smith is a member of the Kentucky Racing Commis ¬ sion and has nominated for the Delaware Park stakes The contingent from Kentucky was particularly heavy because of the clos ¬ ing of the Churchill Downs meeting last Saturday SaturdayThe The distinction of having the greatest num ¬ ber of horses at Delaware Park is hard to settle as Dr J P Jones well known Vir ¬ ginia trainer is another who has more than a score in his charge chargeOther Other racing strings now on the ground at Delaware include those of Tommy Rod rock with about twenty head being the horses of William F Hitt and others more than a dozen W W Vaughan horses trained by Royal Roberts Dion K Kerr with about the same number including True Call the Christiana Stable of fifteen under the care of Jack Healey J M Brooks with more than a dozen and Mrs R H Heighes col orbearers to the number of ten tenLARGE LARGE STRINGS DUE DUEExpected Expected momentarily is the Walter 11 Jeffords string of twenty the J W Y Mar tinH L Straus establishments combining about thirty head and trainer J H C Forbes with the representatives of Howard Bruce and Chester Hockley Mr Bruce is one of Marylands best known citizens and Mr Hockley is chairman of the Maryland Racing Commission Mr Forbes will have almost a score between the two strings stringsPresent Present shipping plans which had the rac ¬ ing secretarys office buzzing all this week provide for other big establishments to be on the ground by the end of this week or the first of next week In this group are the veteran A J Joyner who will direct the George D Widener string of twenty the Greentree Stable division of Mrs Payne Whitney running to fifteen head the well known Marylander J Y Christmas with seventeen including Rough Time and Rough Pass S W Labrot interested in the revival of the New Orleans track who will ship fif ¬ teen head to Delaware the J H Stotler horses some of which are now being raced in New York the Mansfield Stable with ten and the Brookmeade Stable under the care of Hugh Fontaine with a division of the New York string
