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Knockdown Faces Ten in Brandy wine wineSeeks Seeks Delaware Park Stake Over Vertigo II Contest Incline Tide Rips and Eb EbDELAWARE DELAWARE PARKStanton Del May 29 With Saturdays inaugural program written into the records on the satisfactory side of the ledger officials of the Delaware Steeplechase and Race Association antici ¬ pate the usual splendid turnout for Mon ¬ days Memorial Day program despite the conflict with nearby Garden State Park The holiday card will be featured by the 10000 Brandywine Handicap a mile and onesixteenth event for threeyearolds and upward upwardOf Of the 61 nominations 11 capable mid ¬ dledistance horses have been named for this tenth renewal of the fixture Those entered overnight with their weight as ¬ signments are Maine Chance Farms Knockdown 114 La Pomme Studs Vertigo II 112 King Ranchs Flash Burn 110 and Contest 111 Greentree Stables Blue Bor ¬ der 110 Joseph Tuccis Incline 110 Clar ¬ ence Hartwigs Flag Drill 109 E A Nico demus Laran and H L Straus March Chick 109 arid 106 respectively Bayard Sharpes Tide Rips 109 and H A Grants Eb 106 pounds poundsKnockdown Knockdown while he is the lightweight in the Brandywine seems nicely suited un ¬ der 114 pounds After winning the Excelsior Handicap in New York Knockdowns races were none too impressive in the Trenton and Gallant Fox Handicaps However since reaching this course the Discovery five yearold has worked a mile in 141 one of the better trials registered over the track trackForeignBred ForeignBred Contender ContenderLikely Likely to furnish serious contention is the foreignbred Vertigo H This sixyear old has been postward only four times this season and twice was capable enough to reach the winners circle In his initial vic ¬ tory Vertigo n beat Perfect Bahrain then came back to trounce Cornish Knight and Calvados While beaten in his most recent start Vertigo Hwas far from disgraced while finishing two lengths behind Stymie in a Belmont Park overnight affair Incline following a brief letrup in his fettle and in two starts was fourth in the Dixie Handicap at Pimlico and in the same position in the Gallant Fox Handicap at Jamaica In the latter event he was beaten only a little more than four lengths by Faultless Fervent and Gallorette GalloretteThe The other coupling in tomorrows race is Laran and March Chick both of whom are conditioned by Prank Downey Bonsai Laran seems the more competent of the two having scored a galloping victory in an overnight race at Garden State in his most recent essay
