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, Delaware Attracts Kentucky Strings J. O. Keene and C. W. Moore To Race Units at Meeting-Mare Jeanne dArc Dies STANTON, Del., May 20. Two generations of Kentucky thoroughbred breeders and owners converged on Delaware Park, the compact and sporting park of the Delaware Steeplechase and Racing Association when John Oliver Keene and Charles Whitney Moore unloaded their horses. Keene, no relation to the late James R. Keene, but to the present generation more prominent because Keeneland, the nonprofit course near Lexington, was conceived by him, spent so many years on the continent, a majority of which tutoring horses for the Czar of Russia, became infatuated with the continental idea of building. Tjhe main structure at Keeneland stands out as one of them, the paddock also, but the grandstand was erected after he gave title to the track, which is surrounded by Keehe-owned acreage. No firmer believer in the Bonnie Scotland and Hanover line than the master of Keene stud in mating horses, he seldom sells a filly who carries that blood and at no time runs one in a selling race. Jeanne Bowdre, a daughter of Luke Mc-Luke, is his pride and joy and he holds Silver Beauty in almost the same esteem. Today, when asked about the death of Jeanne dArc, a daughter of Jean Valjean, whose untimely death occurred several days ago, Keene vividly showed regret over her loss. Halcyona Oaks Eligible He brought 12 horses from Lexington and Hajcyona, disappointing favorite in the 1941 renewal of the Dover Stakes and Delaware Oaks eligible, tops the dozen. The daughter of Halcyon and Princess Pan has been in training at Keeneland and appeared ready to carry on when unloaded this morning. She is also eligible to the Newcastle Handicap, fashioned for fillies and mares and headliner of the closing-day program of the 30-day meeting, which commences on Friday, May 29. Moore, whose father stood McGee at stud when he begat Exterminator, Firebrand, In Memoriam and others, is making his first invasion of the eastern seaboard. He is no newcomer to racing, having stepped into the owners ranks soon after the death of his father. Until his mother purchased Cherokee, out of the dispersal sale of the Allen B. Gallaher estate, the Moores mated their mares with Sweep On. Munition was one of the leading brood mares at the Moores Mere Hill Farm and she was mated with Sweep On. The first produce was known as Battle Creek and he was one of the fastest two-year-olds of western racing. That was in 1923 and it was the year of Wise Counsellor, Black Gold, Worthmore, Sayno and others. Whitney Moore sold the colt to William R. Coe in the early part of 1924 and he was cut down and destroyed. Battle Creek was second to Wise Counsellor , in the mile Queen City Handicap and that was one of the best renewals of that Latonia fixture. Sold Pair to J. Livingston Prior to Battle Creeks birth, young Moore had several fine horses. He sold to Jefferson Livingston, Martha "Fallon and Sympathy and both were daughters of Bonnie Doon. Another successful performer Moore sold was Ma"rtie Flynn. Stuyvesant Peabody acquired the Sweep On offspring for 0,000 and he was a good stakes winner under the silks of the president of the Lincoln Fields Jockey Club. The Kentuckian has owned and raced many good horses since and at the present time Letter V., winner at his first asking at Keeneland, appears to be a top juvenile. He is eligible to the Dover Stakes, the opening-day feature, and Moore stated today he is pointing the son of Cherokee and, Virginia Flynn for the five-furlong dash. He won at his first asking and bucked shins in the first division of the Thoroughbred Dinner Purse. Honey Cloud, winner of the 1940 renewal of the Sussex Handicap, is back at Delaware Park training for the same race. Now in his eighth year, the son of High Cloud is the main barrel in Alf "Whitey" Abels small stable, which includes War Shy "and Dots Key. Winner of the 1927 Preakness Stakes with Bostonian, Abel is still "able" to gallop his own horses. i ! : I r I ; 1
