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GEORGETOWN STEEPLECHASE TO BRING OUT STAR FENCERS FENCERSFeatures Features Delawares Wednesday Card Sussex Field Taking Shape ShapeSTANTON STANTON Del June 16 The 6000 added Georgetown Handicap to be run over the stake course of about two miles as the feature of Wednesdays program is shaping up in one of the best steeplechase races of the year London Town Our Sailor Phillip II Ossabaw Mandigham Arch Hero Dollys Love Mad Polly and Rhadamanthus tested the Delaware infield course this morning and their trainers were greatly impressed with it In fact Ossabaws and Dollys Loves entries were made this morning for the rich feature featureWeights Weights for the Sussex Handicap to be run over one and onequarter miles as the feature of Saturdays program were re ¬ leased today Although a small field is ex ¬ pected to strive for this 10000 added prize it should be a very representative one oneIn In the Gorgetown Louis B Mayers 1940 champion Ossabaw will carry the top im ¬ post of 158 pounds He was defeated by Arch Hero in the Corinthian Steeplechase at Belmont Park Mandingham a winner of the 1940 Delaware Spring Maiden Steeple chase and victor in an overnight race here last week is considered the dark horse in the field He is a quick jumper and appears to be able to hold his own against fast straightaway performers ARCH HERO CARRIES 148 POUNDS POUNDSDollys Dollys Loves assignment is 151 pounds and London Town will carry 150 London Town won the Charles L Appleton Steeple ¬ chase at Belmont Arch Hero will carry 148 pounds poundsYour Your Chance winner of the Suburban and selected to take Eight Thirtys place as the handicap champion of the G D Widener stable is quartered at Belmont Park but Greentree Stables Corydpn Brandywine Sta ¬ bles Masked General Miss Ella K Brysons Cavalier T Lee Evans Westnesia J Oliver Keenes War Beauty Millsdale Stables Sun Lover Thomas J Healeys Tatterdemalion and W W Vaughns Roncat are some of the foremost Sussex eligibles stabled here hereUntil Until the weights are scanned by New York trainers the status of Haltal Dorimar Hash Dit and Bold and Bad will not be established Yancey Christmas also this morning was waiting for the weights be ¬ fore deciding whether he would bring Rough Pass here from Boston BostonRains Rains yesterday and during the night pre ¬ vented the track from improving but should todays overcast skies not produce rain the racing strip should be in good condition for tomorrows program which will be featured by the Corner Ketch Purse
