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Kentucky and Maryland Arrivals Swell Horse Colony at Delaware Over 200 Head Have Already Been Sent From Above Two Points for 30-Day Meeting STANTON, Del., May 21. The 1,287 stalls at Delaware Park are filling up. During the past several days more than 200 horses have arrived from Maryland and Kentucky for the 30-day meeting, which commences -Friday, May 29, and J. Gil Haus, who has charge of alloting. the stalls predicts there will be 700 thoroughbreds on the grounds by Sunday night. The Kentuckians, coming in larger numbers than ever before, are arriving from the Blue Grass State as rapidly as cars are available and train service adequate. Horsemen know that every train cannot carry a horse car and many of the. "Hardboots" went through the first war and rode a freight special more often than a passenger, so they find the present problem no problem at all. Then again horsemen are used to delays, such as Ben Jones encountered when he brought Whirlaway to Pim-lico from Churchill Downs. Luckily the horse car made a fast run, but when it reached Baltimore the thoroughbred Pullman stood in the yards for three hours before it was switched to the Pimlico siding. Those owners and trainers making the short trek from Maryland are using the vans, and with two super highways from Baltimore to Stanton, it is no more than a three-hour haul. Horses are loaded at Havre de Grace, Laurel and Pimlico during the cool of the morning and they are ensconced in their Delaware Park abode before noon. Convenient for Stake Eligibles The journey from the Long Island tracks is about the same as that from the Baltimore sector, and since the sport was legalized in the Diamond State, more than, a great number of horsemen enter their horses at New York and have them at the ; local track that afternoon. Unlike other points, stake candidates quartered else-1 where are sent here on the eve of their engagements and return to their home base 1 the next morning. For this reason nominations for, the thirteen stakes reached a new high total : this year, and the generous purse distribu- tion attracted so many stables that not a 1 half of the applicants received stall allotments. Among the Kentuckians expected to arrive from Churchill Downs during the next ; few days is -Thomas Sanf ord with the J. K. 1 Houssels stable. Housells, a gold miner of : Las Vegas, Nev., selected Sanford to : purchase several horses for him last fall. One of them was Emolument. This filly was a very consistent individual under the banner of Dr. Charles Hagyard, Lexington veterinary. She was shipped to California and when racing was halted in that state it earned " her a rest. Sanford then was engaged to i train the Houssels horses and he went to the Sunkist State to take them over and bring them east to Hot Springs. They HOWARD WELLS Will have a division of his stable at Delaware Park this year. i then invaded Keeneland and from there moved on to Churchill Downs. Howard Wells is another native Ken-tuckian making his first Delaware invasion. A nephew of Howard Oots, who campaigned Marica, winner of the 1938 running of the Sussex Handicap, Wells always campaigns his horses on the Chicago circuit until the latter part of the Washington Park" meeting. He then transfers his activities to New England for the Nar-ragansett Park fall season, after which he invades Maryland. With John J. Greely, Jr., as his assistant, Wells decided on sending 10 horses here and will divide his time between Delaware and Chicago. In addition to R. W. Mcllvain, president of the Pure Oil Company, Wells trains for David Straus, Cincinnati patron; Howard Oots and W. M. Ingram. It will- be home-coming week for James P. Ross, track superintendent, when the "hardboots" arrive. For many years he was track superintendent at the Kentucky Association track before he took over the same position at Havre de Grace and Edward Burke brought him over to Stanton. Ross, long considered without a peer in providing a safe and fast track, has a superb oval at Delaware Park. Recently after a heavy rain the track was near its best for the next days training and could have been if Ross so desired. Among the recent arrivals are a division of the locally owned Christiana Stable, E. J. Reed, John Paul Jones, Woods Garth, W. W. Vaughn, James McGee, who is sending horses fo and from Belmont Park for racing at that point; Mrs. V. Leonard, Mrs. R. H. Heighe, Johnny Forbes, Richard Pending and several minor establishments. Two of George Palmers assistants are schooling horses each morning from the electric gate in the six-furlong chute. Palmer, now engaged at Beulah Park, will arrive here prior to the opening. Joe B. Hardwick arrived from Kentucky and took his place in the clocker brigade. Hardwick has yet to miss a Delaware Park meeting and this year plans on passing up Dade Park for the Garden State season at Camden.
