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Twelve Twelve Seeking Seeking Fleming Fleming Handicap; Handicap; Real Real Delight Delight in in Coaching Coaching Club Club Oaks Oaks Fleet Calumet Filly EngagesNine Rivals Choice Has Won Fiye of Six Starts; Dinewisely Appears Chief Threat Again Today By BOB HORWOOD Staff Correspondent BELMONT PARK, Elmont, L. I., N. Y., May 23. A surprisingly large group of nine fillies has been named to oppose Calumet Farms highly-regarded Real Delight in tomorrows 0,000 Coaching Club American Oaks. This will be the thirty-sixth running of the three-year-old filly classic and the mile and three-furlong event frequently points out the divisional champion. It has fallen, .to such splendid race mares as Top Flight, Black Helen, Vagrancy and Twlight Tear, who were probably the best of their age and sex in the past 20 years. The beadroll also includes such memorable misses as Cleopatra, Flambette, Princess Doreen, Edith Cavell, Bateau, Dawn Play, Level Best, Harmonica, Wistful and Next Move, a list that omits a few who may have been quite as good as those named. Last years Oaks went to Herman B. Delmans How, who drew away from Walter M. Jeffords Kiss Me Kate with majestic authority. A smallish filly. How later lost her form and was overlooked in the balloting at the seasons end, though when at her peak she was undoubtedly the best of her generation. Arcaro Given Riding Assignment Real Delight comes to the CCA Oaks with an impressive record and in some quarters is suspected of being at least the equal of her Derby-winning stablemate, Hill Gail. The daughter of Bull Lea Blue Delight didnt race at two, but has won five of her six. starts this year. Most recently, after beating Whirla Lea and others in the Kentucky Oaks, she captured the Black-Eyed Susan formerly the Pimlico Oaks by more than four lengths from White Hall Plantations Dinewisely. Real Delights only defeat was at Keeneland, where she was beaten by White Skies when ridden by an apprentice. Eddie Arcaro will be in the saddle tomorrow and the Bull Lea filly looms and odds-on choice. Dinewisely, who will have the services of Conn McCreary, may be the chief threat in the Oaks, though she finished behind King Ranchs Sufie and Jeffords Lily White in the one mile Acorn Stakes here.. Though unable to menace Real Delight in the Pimlico race at a mile and a furlong, she finished very strongly and the extra eighth of a mile enabled her to turn the tables on Parading Lady, who had beaten her decisively in the Acorn. With Continued on Page Thirty-Seven Real Delight Tops Ten In Coaching Club Oaks - Five of She Starts to Date Fleet Calumet Filly Has Won Continued from Page One another quarter mile to go tomorrow, the daughter ot Platter" may be very dangerous, though she is out of a Wise Counsellor mare, not usually "ah indication of stamina. Dinewisely has a long, determined, but not "brilliant run at the finish. SUfie.who will be ridden by Bill Bdland, and Lily White, who will be piloted by Ted Atkinson, finished second and third behind. Parading Lady in the Acorn, but were tiring at the end of that mile ruft Lily White hasiiot started since the Acorn, while Sufie Tias raced poorly. - The others in this edition of the CCA Oaks afe 3ain Hoy Stables Hushaby Baby, Hal Price Headleys Aesthete, Esiie Asburys Dalalr Edward. M. OBriens Iso grade, C. Mahlon Klines Brechin and C. V. Whitneys Recess. Hushaby Baby, who finished daylight behind Dinewisely ha sixth, place in the Acorn, came back to win a . mile event here in clever style, beating a large field that included Dalai, Isograde, Brechin and Recess. Ray York is again slated to ride the Cain Hoy filly. Aesthete is a maiden with several good races to her credit. Her most recent was a close second to Star of Persia at seven furlongs. All 10 of the ,Oaks fillies carry level weights of 121 pounds. The fixture will be the sixth" event on the eight-race program. The secondary feature is the Reginal Rives Purse for juveniles at five furlongs of the Widener Course. Only seven have been named for this dash, including such promising youngsters as Vera S. Braggs Tribe, who recently finished second to the brilliant iort Salonga in the Juvenile Stakes; Eugene Constantin, Jr.s recent winner. Royal Bay Gem; C. T. Chenerys Sugar-foot, who was a mite short in his last here, and Sanf ord Stud Farms Marsh Tiger.
