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MANDINGHAM TO MISS INDIAN RIVER CHASE CHASESkinner Skinner to Reserve Unbeaten Fencer for Grand National Ossabaw Starting Top Weight WeightSTANTON STANTON Del June 23 John T Skin ¬ ner a leading trainer of steeplechasers an ¬ nounced today at Delaware Park that Mandingham the undefeated jumper who added the Georgetown Steeplechase to his score here last week will not start again until the fall when he will be pointed for the Grand National at Belmont Park an event that this season is expected to be endowed with a 20000 prize Mandingham regarded by such an astute judge of steeple ¬ chasers as J Howard Lewis who used to handle the timber toppers of Joseph E Widener as the best since the illfated Bushranger had been assigned 153 pounds equal to Ossabaw for the 6500 added In ¬ dian River Steeplechase to be run here Wednesday Ossabaw a tiring fourth in the Georgetovn is expected to try again in the Indian Hiver in which he will have five pounds less to carry With carryWith Mandingham getting a furlough Mr Skinner will have as his representative in the Indian River Mad Policy who will run in the colors of his wife and has been as ¬ signed 141 pounds F Ambrose Clarks Lon ¬ don Town runnerup to Mandingham in the Georgetown carries the same weight 150 E B Schleys Dollys Love will drop four pounds off her fruitless Georgetown effort to pick up 147 Two lightweights Groton Stables Salem 132 and Arthur E Pew Jrs Beach Maiden 131 are to round out the field in the third of the Delaware Park steeplechase stakes stakesKING KING COLE LIKELY STARTER STARTERThe The Indian River will be followed by the 6500 added Diamond State Stakes one mile and a furlong for threeyearolds on Gov ¬ ernors Day June 26 In this event Dela ¬ ware Park patrons are to see in action Og deh Phipps King Cole who finished second to the champion Whirlaway in the Preak ness at Pimlico James Fitzsimmons trainer of the fleet Pharamond n colt also handles the Diamond State Stakes candidate Peri sphere who qualified for his Diamond State engagement at Aqueduct last Saturday Perisphere belongs to the Belair Stud whose Greville also is expected to start as well as another Fitzsimmonstrained horse the Wheatley Stables Choppy Sea SeaMrs Mrs Walter M Jeffords Philadelphia sportswoman who won a double here on Saturday will be represented in the Dia ¬ mond State by Riding Light a Blue Lark ¬ spur colt that served warning in a victory last week that he would be a main con ¬ tender The Greentree Stable which fur ¬ nished the Delaware Oaks winner Tangled will have Swing and Sway carrying th pink and black on Governors Day King Ranchs Itabo revealing at last that he was no mud runner in the Kent Handicap is to be a starter on Thursday if the track is fast fastThe The 5000 added Polly Drummond Stakes five furlongs for twoyearold fillies will wind up the local stake calendar for the week on Saturday The Brookmeade Sta ¬ bles Smiles who impressed New York race ¬ goers in the spring heads the list of likely starters The Greentree Stables New Trick and Joseph E Wideners Saves Nine have won preparatory races at this meeting Hal Price Headley is shipping down a highly heralded pair Lotopoise and Pig Tails from Suffolk Downs Other probables include E K Brysons Gummed Up M B Goffs Alle ¬ gheny The Howe Stables Islesborough Breckinridge Longs Equipet Crispin Ogle bays On the Level George D Wideners Queens Lane and H H Temple Jrs Chuckle
