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PHALANX — The Whitney stakes performer starts on the comeback trail in todays Camden Purse at Delaware Park. Eight Steeplechasers Seek Tom Roby; Phalanx Back in Action at Delaware i His Boots Faces Cloonshee,* Lock and Key, Phiblant and Rapier in Jumping Handicap DELAWARE PARK, Stanton, Del., June 13. — The third running of the 0,000 added Tom Roby Steeplechase Handicap, which honors the former jumping rider, who for the past several years, has been confined to a New York hospital as a result of injuries received in a Belmont Park spill, will be run as the feature of tomorrows attractive program here. An added attraction on the card is the return to competition of Cornelius V. Whitneys Phalanx, three-year-old champion of the 1947 racing season. The Roby overnight entrants, with their weights, follow: Mrs. J. B. Ryan, Jr.s Cloonshee and R. J. Dwyers Lively Man, 156 each; John M. Schiffs Phiblant and L. E. Stoddard, Jr.s Rapier, 154 each; Mrs. Esther duPont Weirs Darjeeling, 153; Chrispin Oglebays Lock and Key, 149; Brookmeade Stables His Boots and Main Earth Stables Pilgrims Way, 143 pounds each. His Boots turned in a corking effort in his last steeplechase race, bowing by only a head to the capable Genancoke. Lock and Key distinguished himself last year as one of the best hurdle horses in the country, while Darjeeling was the winner of last years Pimlico Spring Maiden, one of the races excepted in the Roby conditions which call for non-winners of a sweepstakes. Of considerable interest tomorrow will be the appearance of Phalanx, the son of Pilate and Jacola, who won the Belmont Stakes during his three-year-old campaign. Phalanx major objective at this meeting is the 5,000 Sussex Handicap, which will be run at a mile and a quarter on Saturday, June 25. Phalanx was only lightly campaigned last season as a four-year-old, but managed to earn 0,675, through one victory, three seconds and a third. His victory came in the Daingerfield Handicap, while he was second in The Jockey Club Gold Cup at Empire and Butler Handicap. His third was accomplished in the Westchester Handicap. The Whitney star will race coupled with Mother in tomorrows Camden Purse and the following middle distance performers will do battle, Foxcatcher Farms Rose Beam, another leading Sussex prospect; Mrs. J. V. Stewarts Dr. Almac, S. E. Wilson, Jr.s Bubble Gum and Walter M. Wickhams Woodford Sir. An overnight event figured to be a soft spot for the seasonal debut of Phalanx, but he will face a stern test with Rose Beam in the line-up. This fouryear-old son of Blenheim n. — Roseretter has raced but once over the course and reeled off a mile and a sixteenth in 1:44 in scoring Another race which shapes up as a keenly contested dash is the fourth event, which matches five sprinters at the. six furlongs distance. Those set to compete are Send Off, Singing Doll, Red Herring, Sun Elsie and Torello. The first named made his debut for the year in a local race last week and turned in a sparkling effort to assure present fitness.
