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Garden State Stake Entries Total 630 Dozen Events Draw Record Lists Compared With 353 For Ten Fixtures in 1942 CAMDEN, N. J., June 26.— All previous .stake entry records for Garden State Park were shattered when nominations for the dozen specials to be decided during the 50-day meeting, which opens July 7 and terminates September 11, reached a total of 630, thereby exceeding the mark of 353 for the ten 1942 features by a wide margin. In some cases entries to the fixtures inaugurated last season were doubled. The two added stakes on the roster received most gratifying entries. No less than 70 two-year-olds were made eligible for the six-furlong Rancocas Stakes, named for Harry Sinclairs famous farm, not so distant from the local course. The Princeton Handicap, also a three-quarter-mile jaunt but open to members of the three-year-old and upward division, attracted 36 nominations. Practically every racing stable of importance on this side of the Atlantic is represented on Garden State Parks stake roster. Mrs. Payne Whitney, Americas first lady of racing, is scheduled to show the Greentree Stable silks made famous by Twenty Grand and other notable performers too numerous to mention. She is just-one of the some dozen and a half members of her sex to make nominations for the principal events at the local grounds. Homebred Racers in Strings William Woodward, chairman of The Jockey Club, with Joseph E. Widener and his nephew George D. Widener, president of the Westchester Racing Association, will be represented by homebred racers in the meetings leading events. The latter pair top an imposing group of Philadelphia nominators, one which also includes S. D. Riddle, Jerome H. Louchheim, Walter M. Jeffords and Charles Bromley. Warren Wright, W. L. Brann, Walter Chrysler, Hal Price Headley, R. J. Kleberg, William duPont and William Ziegler, Jr., are just a few of the countrys prominent men of the bloodstock industry who will participate in the lengthy session. Mrs. H. C.Phipps, whose ill-fated Dark Secret was an outstanding cup horse a decade ago and whose nimble-footed Snark has held the worlds record for six and a half furlongs for half a dozen years, is another lady who will be well represented in the specials during the 50-day period. She owns the noted Wheatley Stable. Turfgoers need not stretch their memories far to recall Cavalcade and High Quest, Kentucky Derby and Preakness winners for Mrs. Dodge Sloane. The same colors of her Brookmeade establishment will be flown here in the better races of the meeting. Ladies from nearby points will be represented well, this group including Mrs. Walter M. Jeffords, Mrs. M. E. Elizabeth Altemus Whitney, Mrs. E. duPont Weir, Mrs. William H. Cane and Mrs. Janon Fisher, Jr. Californians Represented Other prominent lady nominators include Mrs. Tilyou Christopher, Mrs. Beatrice di Giorgio, Mrs. R. H. Heighe, Miss Helen Hickman, Mrs. Donald Peters, and Mrs. W. Plunket Stewart. Distant California will have considerable to say in Garden State competition, judging from the quality of the stake entries from that point. The Binglin Stock Farm of Bing Crosby and Lin Howard has nominated well, the same holding true for the W-L Ranch of Harry Warner and Mer-vin Le Roy. Charles Howard, of Seabiscuit fame, and Myron Selznick, also will be represented. Virginia breeders, in addition to William Ziegler, who have signified their intention of participating in the local features, include B. B. Jones, proprietor of the onco powerful Audley Farm, and Walter Chrysler. The latter is one of the syndicate which went to a high figure to obtain the English stallion, Bahram, for importation to America. In this grouping also should go Mrs. M. E. Whitney, proprietress of the 3,000-acre Llangollen Farm in Loudoun County. The same holds true for Mrs. W. Plunket Stewart, whose 1,100-acre Rolling Plains Farm is situated in Farquier County. A. J. Sackett is another from the Old Dominion State wholl show his silks in Garden State features. Then there is Louis Tufano, who leaped into turf fame through the prowess of Market Wise; Donald Ross, president of the Delaware Racing Association; William Helis, principal stockholder in tne Fair Grounds at New Orleans; Harold Clark, whose Riverland came to an untimely end just a short time back; Victor Emanuel, the airplane industrialist; the New Jersey breeders J. M. Roebling and W. W. Vaughan, and the polo playing Raymond Guest, now in the army. Also Henry Lus-tig, owner of the Longchamps Stable, powerful in two-year-olds this season. Stout stables and fast horses — theyll be on hand at Garden State Park two weeks ; hence.
