Delaware Park Forced To Rearrange Program: Advertised Features Fail to Fill; Claimers Clash in Best Offering, Daily Racing Form, 1948-06-08

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Delaware Park Forced To Rearrange Program ProgramAdvertised Advertised Features Fail to Fill Claimers Clash in Best Offering OfferingDELAWARE DELAWARE ° ARK Stanton Del June 7 Despite the wealth of highclass racing material on the grounds racing secretary J Gill Haus could arrange only a very ordinary program for the resumption of the sport here tomorrow Both of th ad ¬ vertised features in the book had to be called off because of insufficient entries and it became necessary for Haus to split one race and press a substitute into service As the card now stands a claiming race for 8000 to 7000 routers shapes up as the most interesting event on the rear ¬ ranged program Nameless this one mile and a sixteenth contest will be offered as the sixth race and carries a purse of 3000 3000The The veteran conditioner Jimmy McGee is expected to saddle the sixth race favorite in the fouryearold colt Leadership who has been entered to perform under an 8000 claiming tag Leadership descends the claiming scale to engage 10 rivals to ¬ morrow This chestnut son of War Admiral Guiding Star has been training excep ¬ tionally well over the local course and should go postward a fresh competitor since he has been rested since last per ¬ forming on April 30 at Havre de Grace GraceLeadership Leadership will engage a rather formid ¬ able set of rivals in such wellseasoned sampaigners as Blue Stone Farms Romp ¬ ing Audley Farms Pine Lake Mrs Mary Woods Ever Message Grandview Stables Briarcliff Henry H Hechts Coronet Star Watt Elliotts True Dream Henry Mohrs Why Cry H R Dulaneys Happy Hood ¬ lum Victory Stables Adelphia and John B Hatfields Cab Sir SirEver Ever Message earns a high figure on the strength of a rather worthwhile perform ¬ ance on opening day of the meeting which saw him finish fourth behind Night Count Green Bowler and Old School in a 10000 top and bottom claiming test at one mile and a sixteenth Ever Message faltered in the closing drive which indicated he might have needed the race He shapes up as a much stouter competitor tomorrow tomorrowPine Pine Lake finished just a notch below Ever Message in the race in question and is another who is expected to improve off the effort The Charles M Feltnertrained mare has consistently proven to be a rug ¬ ged competitor in 8000 company and will not lack for support supportWatt Watt Elliotts wellconditioned plater True Dream provided one of the major up ¬ sets of the young meeting in scoring at odds of 8150 for 2 in routing a group of 8000 to 7000 sprinters over a heavy track on Friday True Dream should ex ¬ perience little difficulty in stretching his speed the additional distance tomorrow Happy Hoodlum third in the race won by True Dream and Romping an easy winner of his last race at one mile and a sixteenth over a muddy track also shape up as con ¬ tenders


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