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Leading Three YearOlds In Two Delaware Stakes StakesLeonard Leonard Richards and Oaks to Gross About 30000 Apiece ApieceWILMINGTON WILMINGTON Del May 5 Now the richest stake renewed at Delaware Park the Leonard Richards and the Delaware Oaks have on their rosters for the meeting which will begin May 29 the name of the nations leading threeyearold thorough ¬ breds Each event will gross about 30000 and horses mentioned for the Preakness and Belmont Stakes have been kept eligi ¬ ble by their owners for more than a year as these are earlyclosing stakes stakesBoth Both stakes are at a mile and an eighth the Oaks being exclusively for fillies The Leonard Richards has among its eligibles such stars as Citation winner of the Ken ¬ tucky Derby Better Self My Request Kil joy Star Bout Whirling Fox Salmagundi Task Bovard and Mount Marcy MarcyCitation Citation may not start at Delaware Park but owner Warren Wright and trainers B A and Jimmy Jones nominated his last July and paid an additional subscription in October 1947 and another on April 15 last to keep the son of Bull Lea eligible eligibleIn In the past such horses as Your Chance Swing and Sway Anticlimax Dockstader Flash Burn and Brabancon have taken the Leonard Richards which is named in memory of the chairman of the Delaware State Racing Commission who died De ¬ cember 26 1946 1946There There are still 63 fillies eligible for the Oaks among them being Belair Studs1 Vashti Whirl Some from the Calumet Farm Walter M Jeffords entry of Royal Lily and Ragtime Band C V Whitneys Ghost Run and Dusty Legs the latter hav ¬ ing finished second last year in Delaware Parks Polly Drummond Stakes The Oaks has been won by Piquet Tangled Vag ¬ rancy Plucky Maud Gallorette Bonnie Berly and Camargo
