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Offer Steeplechase Races At Delaware Next Week Renew Tom Roby, First of Five Stakes Scheduled, on Tuesday DELAWARE PARK, Stanton, Del., June 8. — Devotees of steeplechase racing will come into their own next week when, the Delaware Steeplechase and Racing Association inaugurates its jumping season on Tuesday with the third running of the Tom Roby Stakes. Before the conclusion • of this session, the following infield fixtures will be renewed; National Maiden Hurdle Stake, Georgetown Handicap, Spring Maiden and Indian River Handicap. Among the steeplechase thoroughbreds scheduled for competition here are Rokeby Stables Genancoke and American Way, winners of the Georgetown in 1947 and 1948, respectively, and Kent Millers Elk-ridge, who has to his credit a "triple" in the Indian River, having won the 1942, 1945 and 1948 renewals of the two and a half mile event. Other prominent leppers pointing for the local fixtures are Lowey Atkins Tourist List, Mrs. Stephen *C. Clark, Jr.s, Trough Hill, Auburn Farms Floating Isle and Bayard Sharpes Lieut. Well. While the Georgetown and Indian River will attract jumpers already firmly established in the handicap ranks, the Roby, National and Spring Maiden are designed primarily to aid in the development of young stock. The Roby, in its two runnings, has been won by American Way and Rank, and the former is now one of the countrys outstanding hedge-hoppers. In the National and the Spring Maiden, such capable performers as Lock and Key, Mandingham and Iron Shot have been victorious. Meanwhile tomorrows program is one of the least impressive of the current meeting, with the top event being the Ridgely House, a six furlongs allowance event for three-year-olds fillies. Of the 13 lassies named overnight four of them are eligible for stakes to be run during the remainder of this meeting. Rokeby Stables The Mater is in both the New Castle Handicap and the Delaware Oaks. Mrs. Mary Robinsons Whirl Columbia is in the Newcastle and Mrs. A. Riggs Best Blue and Alfred G. Vanderbilts Kittyhawk are in the Oaks. The field also comprises the following sophomores: Circle M Farms tandem of Shes Got It and Owlet, C. E. Nelsons Riskabule, Ella K. Brysons Sun Baby, Larry S. MacPhails Our Hostess, Mrs. J. A. DuPonts Rose Sand, C. V. Holseys Pic-on-Me, O. L. Nybergs Flirty Miss and G. R. Watkins Paddock Acres.
