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: Delaware Parks Annual Meeting Of Thirty Days Gets Under Way Eight Fleet Two-Y ear-Olds- i Named for Dover Stakes, Inaugural Attraction STANTON, Del., May 28. The sixth annual meeting of the Delaware Park and Racing Association starts tomorrow with the ,000 added Dover Stakes for two-year-olds the headliner. The Dover will be the first of 13 stakes presented during the 30-day session that will come to a close Juljr 4. In order to bring the closing date to July 4, there will be no racing oh Monday, June 8, and Monday, June 155 In addition to flat racing, steeplechase sport will be offered for more than two weeks of. the five-week session, with three chase stakes, one of which is the third division of the Spring Maiden Handicap, to be renewed. All of the 1,257 stalls at Delaware Park are filled or reserved,, and Fair Hill and Mrs. Healeys Nursery are being used to house the overflow. Many stakes" candidates are expected to journey to and from New York for engagements and tomorrows feature is an example. Four of the eight entrants came from New York for the five-furlong dash, and they are expected .to return to- that state. Several minor improvements were made to Delaware Park since the close of the 1941 session, but due to war conditions, no large change was attempted. The track was resurfaced, and horsemen believe that it is one of the. fastest drying and safest in the country. Recent rains aidedjn mixing the new soil, and the track holds a deep cushion. Bullpen Carries Top Weight Assigned the top impost of 19 for the Dover is Coldstream Stables Bullpen, who journeyed here from New York. The homebred son of Bull Dog and Penncote was very successful for E. Dale Shaffer and Jack Howard during Florida, racing and hasheld his own in New York competition. Another invader from the Empire State is Mrs. A. F. Shermans Hoosier Wolf, Whose last essay was a fifth to Suncap, in the Juvenile Stakes. By the scale, Joseph E. Wideners Fair Weather, winner of the Debutante Stakes at Churchill Downs, will be equally weighted- under 116 pounds, with Christiana Stables Bar Keep and Hoosier Wolf. There being three pounds difference between fillies and colts, she will receive no concession from Bullpen. Nydrie Stables Driven Snow, a winner at Pimlico; Mrs.-R. Feinbergs Bugler, R. B. Archers Little Bud and Ella K. Brysons Mae James, who completes the field, will "tote" 113 pounds each. Supporting the stakes "will be the West-over Handicap and eight were named for the one mile and one-sixteenth event. E. G. Hackpeys Sir Alfred will shoulder the top impost of 122 pounds, which, is two pounds more than He Rolls, another four-year-old and the property of ,E. G. Hackney will carry. Century Note, the brother to Twenty Grand, who appears to have taken a new lease on life, and winner at Churchill Downs, will carry 118 pounds, and then follows Brandywine Stables Pompion, under 115 pounds. She r.nd Pharien, the latter under 102 pounds, are the only fillies in" the field and Moscow n.s assignment is 113" pounds. Filisteo, with an assignment of 110 pounds, Ksar of Aud- Continued on Page Five 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, chat 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.
