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Delaware Features Richards Stakes Seven Match Speed Against Page Boots BootsKent Kent Victor Engages Task Quarter Pole and Bovard In NineFurlong Offering OfferingDELAWARE DELAWARE PARK Stan ton Del June 25 The Delaware Steeplechase and Race Association honors the memory of the first chairman of the Delaware Rac ¬ ing Commission tomorrow when it features Its Saturday program with the mile and a furlong Leonard Richards Stakes exclu ¬ sively for threeyearolds The fixture car ¬ ries an added endowment of 17500 and the owner of the winning sophomore will receive a handsome cup presented by Donald P Ross president of the host asso ¬ ciation ciationThe The Leonard Richards which was for ¬ merly run as the Diamond State Stakes has attracted eight aspirants headed by Woodvale Farms Kent Stakes winner Page Boots who gets in the event under 119 pounds Also in at the 119pound weight level are Cornelius V Whitneys Quarter Pole King Ranchs Task and Sylvester W Labrot Jr Bovard Crispin Oglebays Gates Mills Mrs J D S Colemans Certi f ield Mrs Van Lear Blacks Golden Reigh and Anthony Allens Laurel Road each with 114 pounds complete the small field fieldTomorrows Tomorrows running of the Leonard Rich ¬ ards should all eight of the overnight en ¬ tries participate will gross 28220 with the owner of the winner to receive 20935 The ninefurlong track record of 149 established by Tangled in winning the 1941 Delaware Oaks seems safe which is more than can be said for the race record of 150 the time credited to Grant Rice Jn 1944 1944McCreary McCreary to Ride Again AgainPage Page Boots a son of Our Boots and Our Page found victory very evasive this year but he came through with flying colors in the recent Kent Stakes at this course Rid ¬ den by Conn McCreary who will again be in the saddle tomorrow Page Boots made a show of his 12 rivals while stepping a mile and a sixteenth in 144 The Royce G Martin thoroughbred was returned to New York following the Kent but arrived here this week in tiptop form according to trainer Woody Stephens StephensComing Coming up to his Richards engagement In excellent condition is Task the son of Eight Thirty and Lovely Morn who ac ¬ counted for the Sapling and King Neptune Stakes on the New Jersey circuit last sea ¬ son Following a couple of disappointing races Task started in the Kent and was third to Page Boots beaten less than five lengths after suffering slight interference interferenceLikely Likely to show marked improvement to ¬ morrow off his Kent effort is Bovard beaten favorite in the lastnamed event The son of Bahram winner of the Louisi ¬ ana Derby in New Orleans during the past winter beat only three horses in the 13 horse Kent field in a race which was far below his standard A subsequent sixfur ¬ long trial in 113 would indicate that he has recovered the form which saw him race Impressively against the best threeyear olds in the country including Calumets Citation whom he chased home in the Chesapeake Stakes at Havre de Grace Willie Saunders will handle the reins again tomorrow tomorrowQuarter Quarter Pole winner of the Constitution Handicap at Suffolk Downs this year was shipped here for the Richards following his recent good effort in New York where he finished second to Alfred Vanderbilts Newsweekly That event was the onemile Turf and Field Handicap and Quarter Pole was but a head off the winner in 136 136Gates Gates Mills Golden Reigh Certified and Laurel Road seems to rate as named with the former standing an excellent chance of upsetting his more highly regarded ad ¬ versaries versariesSecondary Secondary feature on tomorrows stellar card is the fourth and final race in the Kiamensi Handicap series which Is de ¬ signed for horses which have raced for a claiming price of 15000 or less in 194748 The point leader in the series H L Straus Pilaster with 48 to his credit is in to ¬ morrows mile and a half edition under 122 pounds The only eligible with a chance of beating him In the point standing is Mrs Helene K Haggertys Petrol Point who has 30 points to his credit Incline garnered 42 points in past runnings but is not in tomorrows 6000 event Others in the race are Mill River Stables Bam Lawndale Stables Alacrity and Paul Ca ¬ reys Oreling
