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TWO FIXTURES THIS WEEK AT DELAWARE DELAWAREGeorgetown Georgetown Chase Handicap Will Be Run on Wednesday 10000 Sussex Handicap on Saturday SaturdaySTANTON STANTON Del June 14 The chief race of the Delaware season for handicap horses and the first of the rich stakes for steeple ¬ chasers will be presented next week The Georgetown Steeplechase Handicap weights for which were released yesterday will be offered Wednesday and Saturday the 10000 added Sussex Handicap will be renewed over one an onequarter miles milesGreentree Greentree Stables Corydon has arrived from New York to fill his Sussex Handicap engagement and George D VVideners Your Chance Suburban Handicap winner is ex ¬ pected to make the trek Weights for the Sussex will be allotted Monday Greentree Stables Hash and Mrs Marie Evans Shot Put chased Your Chance to the finish of the Suburban and both are eligible to the Sussex However Corydon will represent Greentree and Shot Put is a doubtful starter for he is quartered at Lincoln Fields Thomas Healeys Tatterdemalion breezed a mile over the muddy track this morning in 158 The Millsdale Stable is represented by two horses whose names are on the honored scroll of Delaware stake winners Sun Lover and Andy K who annexed the Kent Handicap in 1939 and 1940 respectively E K Bryson named Cavalier and Cis Marion The latter winner of the Pimlico Oaks is also pointing for the 10000 added Newcastle Handicap for fillies and mares the feature here on July 5 There is a strong possibility that the fieerunning Dit from the stable of Arnold Hanger will come from New York for the Sussex SussexNEW NEW AND ENVIABLE TRACK RECORD RECORDDelaware Delaware Park is enjoying its most suc ¬ cessful meeting new records being set for at ¬ tendance as well as a new and enviable tiack record which was established by the Greentree Stables Tangled who ran a mile and one furlong in 149 in winning the Delaware Oaks In that effort she lowered Your Chances record by on 3 and onefifth seconds secondsOssabaw Ossabaw and Dollys Love arrived from Belmont Park late today for the Georgetown Handicap and indications point out that this run over about two miles will be the most attractive event of the steeplechase season seasonThere There is more interest in steeplechasing than in many years It apparently is no longer a kind of leased concession for the jumpers of Thomas Hitchcock who sold Lechlacle winner of the Delaware Spring Maiden last week to Harry LaMontagne in ¬ ternationallyknown sportsman When the sport finished showing its new spring styles at Belmont opinion was sharply divided as to what looked like the chaser of 1941 1941Ossabaw Ossabaw Louis B Mayers 1940 champion was defeated by Arch Hero latest model of the Sanford Stud Farm in the Corinthian Steeplechase F Ambrose Clarks Bladen won the Belmont Spring Maiden only to fall in the third and last of the series of these events held at Delaware Park Sussex owned and trained by G H Pete Bostwick tri ¬ umphed over London Town Dollys Love and Ossabaw in the Meadowbrook Steeplechase The Rokeby Stables Mandingham winner of the 1940 Delaware Spring Maiden im pressed in his seasonal debut last week at Delaware Park winning a condition race by fourteen lengths lengthsOSSABAW OSSABAW TOP WEIGHT WEIGHTEdward Edward J Brennan racing secretary and handicapper assigned top weight of 158 to Ossabaw with E B Schleys Dollys Love next at 151 followed by F Ambrose Clarks London Town 150 conqueror of Arch Hero and Sussex in the Charles L Appleton Stee ¬ plechase at Belmont Park Arch HeYo drew 148 and Sussex 144 for the Georgetown Lechlade and Bladen are rigged at 138 apiece apieceE E B Schleys Chaloner victor in the first of the Spring Maiden timbertopping trilogy at Pimlico has been assigned 136 The Log Cabin Studs Chuckatuck trained by Oleg Dubassoff who handles Ossabaw and Lech lade was rated at 134 134There There is to be a steeplechase daily except Saturday at Delaware Park and the stake calendar includes the 6000 added Indian River Steeplechase Handicap at about two miles and a half set for Wednesday June 25 and the Vicmead Steeplechase 2500 added at the same distance July 2
