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Six Stakes During Last Nine Days at Delaware 0,000 New Castle Highlights Events in Coming Six-Day Period DELAWARE PARK, Stanton, Del., June s j 23. — The Delaware Steeplechase and Race | j Associations highly-successful season has 5 but nine days more to run and during that t period six added money affairs will be I offered. Highlighted by the week-end renewal of the 0,000 added New Castle » Handicap, the six-day span will also feature . runnings of the ,000 added Delaware Spring Maiden Steeplechase on Tuesday " and the 0,000 added Georgetown 1 Steeplechase Handicap on Wednesday. Just as the withdrawal of Counterpoint t brought about a good-sized Kent field, the e absence of Alfred G. Vanderbilts Next t Move figures to bring out additional fillies s and mares in the New Castle. That is especially true among the three-year-olds, for it seems likely now that both Herman B. ;- Delmans How and Walter M. Jeffords t Kiss Me Kate will compete for the rich l purse over the mile and a quarter distance. Up to the present time, these two D shape up as standouts among their sex in the sophomore division. Among the older lassies expected down 1 for the contest are Ogden Phipps Busanda * and William Ziegler, Jr.s, Leading Home, !, who were first and third, respectively, in i the recent Top Flight Handicap at Belmont Park. The remainder of the field -j should come from Joe W. Browns Thelma a Berger. Hal Price Headleys Aegina, William G. Helis, Jr.s, Drifting Maid, Constance Morabitos My Celeste, C. V. Whitneys ■ Jazz Baby and possibly Mrs. Jeffords Adile. The mid-week Georgetown Handicap, i, contested over the gruelling stakes course e of about two miles, will find Kent Millers s leading money winning jumper, Elkridge, !, striving for a consecutive triple, a feat he e already has accomplished in the more e trying Indian River. Elkridge. a 13-year-old, who was bred i by steward Joseph Flanagan, has always s been partial to the high and wide jumps s of this stakes course, but his work will be e cut out for him this season. Among his s expected rivals is Mrs. Ogden r lipps ; Oedipus, winner of the recent Corinthian i Handicap. Others expected to go postward in the e Georgetown are: F. Ambrose Clarks Lone Fisherman who seperated Oedipus and d Elkridge in the Corinthian; Rokeby Stables s Genancoke and Lowry Watkins Tourist t List. The Spring Maiden attracted 45 nom-
