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J j j | j ! ] ] j ] , j i j ] f j* I a I C 1 r t t v I a a * o £ o of ii in jq Delaware Oaks to Have Record. Purse This Year Saturdays Roce Will Gross Over 0,000, With 0,000 to Winner r DELAWARE PARK, Stanton, Del., June * 18. With 14 three I — as many as -year -old fillies regarded as probable starters in Saturdays running of the Delaware Oaks, the I gross purse in that 7,500 added fixture » | will be in excess of 0,000, with the winning owner taking down a net award of f ! approximately 0,000. Such a figure would 1 • far surpass any previous winners share » in the mile and a furlong feature. The latest arrival to fulfill her engage- | ment was Greentree Stables Knot Hole, • « while officials are anticipating the shipment of Cain Hoy Stables Gazelle winner, , I I Hushaby Baby. Included in the group of t • earlier arrivals from New York were King r Ranchs Sufie and Christiana Stables Enchanted [ Eve. , Considered probable starters at this | writing, along with the aforementioned I • quartet, are: Foxcatcher Farms Faberose, George M. Humphreys Hummy, F. Eugene : . Dixon, Jr.s Dinewisely, Mrs. Walter M. I Jeffords Lily White. Thomas Piatts Stage- struck, Brandywine Stables Place Card, Beverley Broun s Lancaster Lady, Circle M j , Farms Big Mo, C. Mahlon Klines Brechin and either Miss Nosoca or Lady Carolina from the Cary C. Boshamer stable. Knot Hole will be endeavoring to complete a triple in the stake for the Green-tree establishment, which was represented ; s * by Piquet and Tangled in 1940 and 1941. The locally-owned Christiana Stable scored a victory with Camargo in 1947, while the Jeffords stable was victorious last year with Kiss Me Kate, who went on to earn divisional honors for the season. Tomorrows program features three -year-olds in the mile and one-sixteenth L Stuyvesant Purse, an allowance affair, f Named overnight are Stanley C. Mikells Brush Burn, Christiana Stables Andre, K Brandywine Stables Warpath, W. P. S Foleys Huntoville and E. D. Axtons Gray " Challenge. Brush Burn launched his seasonal cam- p paign at Laurel and was unimpressive, fol- e lowing which he was altered. His only other race was over the local track and he turned s in a commendable effort while racing a mile and a sixteenth in 1:44 s to win over F Referee and Suggested. E Warpath has raced three times during v this meeting and each effort was satisfactory. He was timed in 1 :45 while sporting . 2,000 claiming tag, then was second to B Star of Persia and second to My Nell in subsequent outings. Huntsville is a son of Pasteurized and Chuckle, thus a full brother to the speedy Woodchuck. He has been quite proficient while sprinting, winning two of his four C races, but will be making his first attempt to get more than six furlongs. Andre and Gray Challenge shape up as it the outsiders in the field. Andre was a winner at Pimlico but was unsuccessful in his next three starts, finishing more than w dozen lengths behind Star of Persia in ir his last. Gray Challenge has started but oi once this year and finished third behind ir Stuyvesant in Kentucky. It is somewhat n a coincidence that he should compete to tc a race named the Stuyvesant. his con- fi queror. di
