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Delaware Inaugurates Annual Meeting Today Doyer Stakes Heads First Card Of Annual Thirty-Day Session Continued from Page One ley, double winner at Pimlico and with a package of 107 pounds, complete the field. Racing secretary Edward Brennan arranged a fine supporting card for these two features, with nine well-matched three-year-olds accepting under allowance conditions for the fourth race. Limits fields made up the first, second and eighth races and the former is for maiden two-year-old fillies. Many leading stables of the country are represented among the stake nominations and Shut Out, Kentucky Derby winner, who holds the local track record for five and one-half furlongs, that being his initial start, is expected to fill his Kent and Diamond State Stakes engagements. Vagrancy, victorious in the Pimlico and Coaching Club Oaks, is a candidate for the Delaware Oaks and the Newcastle Handicap. The latter stakes will be presented on closing day. Saturdays renewal of the Wilmington Handicap promises to be one of the most attractive in the short history of the six-furlong dash, five top-notch speedsters having arrived from New York to augment the band already quartered here. Bath is expected to be among the field for the Georgetown Steeplechase Handicap on June 24 and other famous fencers are eligibles to this run of about miles, and the Indian River Steeplechase Handicap to be presented on the following Wednesday. The sport will be under the supervision of the same officials who have served here a number of years. In order that the transportation service will not conflict with that of Wilmington, post time for the first race will be 3:00 oclock Eastern War Time and the Daily Double will operate on the first and second races.
