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I ! . Dover Will Engage Classy Youngsters Largest Field in History of Delaware Event Expected to Help Inaugurate Meeting STANTON, Del., May 23. All indications point to the largest field in its short history, being under colors for the Dover Stakes, a dash of five furlongs that will top the opening-day program of the Delaware Steeplechase and Racing Association on Friday, May 29. Of the 117 two-year-olds eligible to the stakes which was won last year by Mrs. R. D. Pattersons Ben Shaba, 50 per cent of them are expected" to be quartered at Delaware Park before the 30-day session commences. It is expected to be a wide open contest, for, except Teentee, winner of the Pimlico Nursery, and Hygrohour, who accounted for the Bowie Kindergarten, no other leading juvenile of Maryland spring racing is eligible. Louis Lee Haggin, H.s Menex, who succumbed to Teentee in the closing stride of the live-furlong Nursery, also is missing from the list of candidates, but Charles Whitney Moores Letter V, who gave signs of being a two-year-old of the first water in his first essay at, Keene-land, is on the scene of the battle and Duval Headley informed friends he would ship John Hay Whitneys Picket from New York for the fray. Picket was a surprise winner at Belmont Park several days ago and the. son of Jacopo and Gallant Lady, a daughter of Sir Gallahad m., impressed his connections with the manner in which he. beat a fine field. Jerry Louchheim sent Kopla to Suffolk Downs after he won the Ral Parr, Stakes and True North is being reserved for late summer competition, so the Dover field will include two-year-olds who have yet to enter racing. Juvenile Fixture for Both Sexes The Dover is the first of three stakes for juveniles, the Polly Drummond, is exclusively for fillies and the Christiana is for two-year-bid colts and geldings; thus, the Dover is the only one fashioned for both sexes. El Chico, destined to be the leading twp"-year-old of his year, won the inaugural w running in 1938 and Camp Verde was successful in 1939. Blensign, who has yet to run back to his juvenile form, defeated Misty Isle and others the following year and Joe Ray and Alohort were second. and third to Ben Shaba last year. Others among the list of eligibles expected to compete for the ,000 prize are , Brandywine Stables Straw Warning, E. K. , Brysons Maejames and Wine Punch, Cedar , Farms Blenhour, a daughter of Blenheim ; II., and One Hour; Christiana Stables , Quillon, a fast-finishing third to Teentee . and Menex in the Pimlico Nursery; Gold-! stream Stable.s Swimmin Hole, Donhy-; brook Farms Defense Bond, Glen Riddle . Farms War Commander, Greentree Stables Cumshaw, Howe Stables Saccharoid, John O. Keenes Semper Ego, Manhasset Continued on Page Nine I HERBERT M. WOOLF Signator car-3 ried the Kansascitians silkes to victory in the Crete Handicap at Lincoln Fields. Dover Stakes to Open Meeting at Delaware Expect Large Field of Juveniles To Keep Engagements in Race Continued from Page Five Stables Sunday Puzzle, Nydrie Stables Driven Snow, Crispin Oglebays True Blue and City Bred, W. W. Vaughns Can Time, Mrs. Arthur Whites Gay Venture, and Joseph E. Wideners Fair Weather. The latter was an easy winner of the Debutante Stakes at Churchill Downs and is considered by astute horsemen as one of the best fillies to have competed in Kentucky racing in a number of years. Brenn arts Big Task Edward J. Brennen, racing secretary, will have a hard task supplying attractive fields for the opening two days ol the meeting, for in former years opening day and the following Saturday are two of the big days of Delaware racing. Topping Saturday and the second days sport will be the Wilmington Handicap, a six-furlong dash that attracted 44 nominations. Madigama carried Donald P. Ross Brandywine Stables blue and gold silks to a 1941 victory, and the Gino offspring will attempt to make it a double. He will have Pompion, consistent racer in Maryland and winner of her last start, as a companion. The daughter of Pompey breezed seven furlongs this morning in 1:34. Weights for the Wilmington will be released Monday, and those expected to accept for the six-furlong dash are Brook-meade Stables Mettlesome, Howard Bruces Jay Jay, E. K. Brysons Joe Ray and Marksman, Mrs. Tom Christophers Doublrab, Glen Riddle Farms The Finest, Mrs. Walter M. Jeffords Dawn Attack, J. W. Y. Martins Battle Jack, Gen. J. Fred Miles Flying Easy, Crispin Oglebays Ocean Blue, Mrs. W. W. Vaughans Canroll, and G. R. Watkins Clyde Tolson. Aonbarr headed the B. O. and Miss Helen Hickman stable that reached Delaware Park from Churchill Downs. The Sussex Handicap is Aonbarrs main objective, although he is eligible to the one and one-sixteenth miles Brandywine Handicap to be presented on Saturday, May 6.
