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Twelve Vie in 0,000 New Castle Busanda, How, Kiss Me Kate Big Trio in Delaware Stake Phipps Miss Must Concede Latter Pair Much Weight Under Impost of 126 Pounds By PALMER HEAGERTY Staff Correspondent DELAWARE PARK, Stanton, Del., June 29. — The New Castle Handicap, the purse of which has been elevated to 0,000 added and the distance increased to a mile and a quarter, will be contested for the fourteenth time tomorrow afternoon as the featured event on Delaware Parks final week-end program. The 32-day session concludes on July 4 with three-year-old scheduled to supply the fireworks in the 5,000 Leonard Richards Stakes. Highweight starter of the dozen in the New Castle is Ogden Phipps Busanda, under d 126 pounds, and she will have her work c cut out for her, for among her rivals are t the outstanding sophomore lassies, Herman I B. Delmans How and Walter M. Jeffords I Kiss Me Kate. The last-named filly carries 1 113 pounds and is in receipt of two pounds f from How. Another prominent three-year-old 0 in the line-up is Isidore Biebers No-thirdchance, r. who will handle 112 pounds. Rounding out the field for the fixture d designed for fillies and mares are: King * Ranchs Renew and C. V. Whitneys Jazz Baby, each with 115; Mrs. Walter M. Jef- +_ a fords Adile, who is coupled with Kiss Me Kate and carries 118 pounds; Joe W. Browns Thelma Berger, 114; Hal Price Headleys Aegina and Constance Morabitos My Celeste, each with 110, and William Ziegler, Jr.s, Leading Home and Mrs. Esther duPont Weirs The Mater, each of whom will handle 109 pounds. Busanda, a four-year-old daughter of War Admiral — Businesslike, rates top consideration off recent form, despite her burdensome package. A triple winner this year and gleaner of 9,060, Busanda has accounted for the Suburban and Top Flight Handicaps. In the last-named event, which was her most recent appearance, she scored by four lengths over How and others while racing a mile and a sixteenth in 1:42%, just one-fifth slower than the track standard at that time. She will be ridden by Eric Guerin. The three - year - olds — How, Kiss Me Kate and Nothirdchance — have accounted for five stakes between them this year. How, a Princequillo filly, won the Kentucky and Coaching Club American Oaks and has earned 3,500. Kiss Me Kate is one of Count Fleets capable offspring and has earned 4,705 through victories in the Delaware Oaks and a division of the Acorn Stakes. The other division of this fixture was taken by Nothirdchance, who has won but one other race. She is a daughter of Blue Swords. All three will be ridden by riders due to arrive from New York. Eddie Arcaro will be astride How, Warren Mehrtens, who has won the Christiana and Oaks during this meeting, will ride Kiee Me Kate and Benny Green will make his Delaware debut atop Nothirdchance. Renew Scored in Firenze The only other member boasting a 1951 stakes victory is Renew, a Blue Larkspur — Be Like Mom filly. She has won two of three starts this season, her Firenze victory on May 12 being her most recent appearance. She will be seeking her third consecutive victory following a fourth in her seasonal debut. Bill Boland will be down from New York to accept the saddle assignment. Adile, The Mater, Jazz Baby and My Celeste earned the money positions in the order named in last years New Castle. That was Adiles lone victory of the year and in three starts this season she has managed to beat but a single horse. The Mater was unplaced in two Florida starts last winter and has since been bred. Jazz Baby has won but a single race this year and was recently fifth in the Top Flight, while My Celeste has been unplaced in all five starts this year. Thelma Berger, Aegina and Leading Home are the outsiders in the field. Thelma Berger has won four of her 12 starts this season, while Leading Home has scored but a single victory but was third in the Top Flight in her last start. Aegina is now a non-winner in 10 starts this year. The New Castle purse will gross 2,200 if the full dozen parade postward, with the owner of the winner taking down a net purse of 4,100. For each scratch from J the overnight field, the 00 starting fee would be deducted from each figure. -
