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**v Polly Drummond Filly Speed Test j Bumper Crop of Juveniles Mark Time for -Saturdays Fixture at Delaware Park DELAWARE PARK, Stanton, Del., May 31. — With nearby Garden State Park and Bel Air having completed their highly-successful meetings, Delaware Parks attendance and wagering figures are certain to show sharp increases during the coming week. The six-day span will be climaxed by Saturdays running of the 0,000 added Polly Drummond Stakes, a five-furlong speed test for two-year-old fillies. With a bumper crop of 154 juveniles eligible for the 15th running of this fixture, it would be extremely difficult to predict a field of probable starters. Foremost among the eligibles are *Ella K. Brysons Wise Scholar, Leroy Hetzels Countess Jane, Alfred G. Vanderbilts Home-Made, Mrs. Wallace Gilroys Emardee and. Hal Price Headleys Aerolite, each of whom has been victorious in stakes competition. Wise Scholar was the Florida sensation during the winter and accounted for her fourth successive victory while winning the Hialeah Juvenile. She followed that up with a galloping score in Marylands Bowie Kindergarten. Countess Jane also boasts a pair of stakes wins, the Fashion and a di-, vision of the Rosedale. Both Stake Winners Emardee and Aerolite have each won a single stake, the former a division of the Rosedale and the Headley miss the Lafayette in Kentucky. Home-Mades success was in New York, where she took the filly division of the National Stallion Stakes. Others well-regarded lassies expected to compete in the week-end offering are: Brookfield Farms I Salute, third in the Rancpcas; Ogden Phipps Flirtatious, third in the filly end of the NSS at Belmont; Thomas Piatts Lillal, third in the Debutante; William GHelis, Jrs Miss Sandra, who has yet to face the starter; and Mrs. L. L. Voigt, Jrs, Scottish Air, a two-time winner. In tin effort to foster distance racing, Delaware Park will again offer the Mont-chanin Handicaps each Wednesday, with the purse and distance increasing each week. The first of the series will be at a mile and a sixteenth for ,500 and the* final will be at a mile and six furlongs for a purse of ,500. The series is for three-year-olds and upwards that have raced for a claiming price of ,500 or less since October 2, 1951. An additional award of ,500 will be divided among the owners whose horses receive the most points, on the basis of 45 points per race. Each winner will be given 24 points, with the other money position earning 12, six and three points each. This award will be given only -if the series is completed. Mondays program, as would be expected following; the holiday week-end, is comprised largely of claiming races, with the featured Forest Lin Purse the only race without that clause. Competing in this mile and a sixteenth test will be One Miss, Ginger D., Flag Request, Swing Mate, Bombazine, Roman Law and Eabani.
