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Derby Field of Sixteen Is Indicated Fifteen in Kentucky Oaks at Downs Real Delight Vies With Our Dorie DorieFast Fast Calumet and Woodvale Fillies Give Rivals Weight In Important Route Fixture FixtureBy By DON FAIR FAIRStaff Staff Correspondent CHURCHILL DOWNS Louisville Ky May 1 Calumet Farms Real Delight crack daughter of Bull Lea and Blue De ¬ light by Blue Larkspur heads ajfield of 15 threeyearold fillies slated toclash here tomorrow afternoon in the seventyeighth running of the 25000 Kentucky Oaks The mile and onesixteenth allowance stake always one of the highlights on Derby Eve programs undoubtedly will have one of its best renewals for the probable starting band for the race often referred to as the Filly Derby Coasts considerable class classReal Real Delight and Woodvale Farms Our Dorie each will shoulder 121 pounds in the historic middle distance fixture and both misses rate strong chances for an Oaks triumph Eddie Arcaro who already cap ¬ tured the Derby Trial aboard Hill Gail may score another local stake victory for the Mrs Warren Wright owned stable when he pilots Real Delight tomorrow Arcaro rode the Calumet filly successfully in a division of Keenelands Ashland Stakes before she was sent to the Downs and the swarthy Italian reinsman is high on his mount mountMcCreary McCreary on Woodvale Homebred HomebredSquat Squat Conn McCreary is engaged to handle Our Dorie a Woodvale homebred the get of Our Boots and Starweed Our Dorie a good winner in her juvenile cam ¬ paign raced impressively in Florida during the winter months chalking up three straight victories against betterthanaver age competition Her morning trials have been decidedly pleasing to trainer Woody Stephens StephensHal Hal Price Headley the noted master of Lexingtons Beaumont Farm and rated by many turfmen as a top tutor for fillies and mares will send out an entry in the Oaks Headleys blue and white silks are to be carried by a pair of homebreds Volt ¬ age and Aesthete and his representatives each will shoulder 109 pounds Ray York will guide Voltage in the Oaks while Willie Shoemaker one of the nations fine riders is to be up on Aesthete Headley won the Oaks in 1930 with Alcibiades and repeated with Flying Lee in 1938 1938J J Price Sallee veteran Kentucky horse ¬ man is to saddle Thomas Piatts Stage struck 116 and Edward Axtons Gray Challenge 116 pounds Sallee and Piatt will be shooting for their second Oaks suc sucContinued Continued on Page ThirtyFive Real Delight Our Dorie Meet in Kentucky Oaks Calumet Wopdvale Fillies Give Thirteen Foes Weight Over Route RouteContinued Continued from Page One Onecess cess Come and Go having carried Piatts colors victoriously in the 1945 renewal of the fixture Tommy Barrow will ride Stage struck and Douglas Dodson was named on Gray Challenge ChallengeCornelius Cornelius V Whitney whose Two Bob won the 1936 Oaks will rely on Fleck and Recess tomorrow Both fillies are in good form at present and considered dangerous under 116pound burdens Dave Gorman drew the mount on Recess while Gerald Porch who is to handle Cold Command next Saturday in the Kentucky Derby rides Recess RecessOthers Others named for the Oaks are Circle M Farms useful Big Mo Clifford Mooers Sky Maid who showed occasional flashes of class this spring Harold G Bockmans Fancy Step Mr and Mrs T M Daniels Whirla Lee all pegged at 116 pounds Johnny Adams rides Big Mo Lois Cook is engaged for Fancy Step Job Dean Jessop will guide Free For Me and Jimmy Breck ons is engaged for Whirla Lee Eslie As burys Dalai 109 with Steve Brooks at the reins and Knollwood Farms Kukla 109 pounds which burden will include the Oaks renewal renewalBest Best supporting attraction on the Derby Eve bill is the Kentucky Colonels Purse seven furlongs for fouryearolds and older William Veenemans stakes winner Black George is expected to rule choice over Bee Lee Tee Ten Gallon Hat Screemin Jack Good Loser and Our Kite in the secondary offering offeringPost Post time for the initial event on the ninerace program tomorrow will be at the usual hour 200 p m and a record Oaks crowd is expected at the Central Avenue
