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— ~"- - f f - r i, i s - t 3 - r s . 1 . 3 3 I j r ; 3 i, l - - I s 3 Richest Delaware Oaks Engages Sixteen Today Lily White, Hushaby Baby, Sufie, Faberose, Big Mo Match Strides By PALMER HEAGERTY Staff Correspondent DELAWARE PARK, Stanton, Del., June 20. — The 14th and richest Delaware Oaks features tomorrows stellar week-end presentation at this point and a bumper band of 16 three-year-old fillies have been entered overnight to compete in the mile and one furlong fixture. Should the bulky field remain intact, the winning owner will receive 2,025 of the 2,910 gross purse. Among the leading lassies in this seasons Oaks are Mrs. Walter M. Jeffords Lily White, Cain Hoy Stables Hushaby Baby, King Ranchs Sufie, Foxcatcher Farms Faberose and Circle M Farms Big Mo. Others in the line-up are: Greentree Sta-I bles Knot Hole, Thomas Piatts Stage-1 struck, Brandywine Stables Place Card, George M. Humphreys Hummy, Christiana Stables Enchanted Eve, L. W. Jennings Lively Gal, G. F. Stricklands One Miss, George D. Wideners Fleet Rose, F. Eugene Dixon, Jr.s Dinewisely, Beverly Brouns Lancaster Lady, and C. Mahlon Klines Brechin. Trying to Emulate Kiss Me Kates Feat Lily White will be endeavoring to emu- late the feat of her stablemate Kiss Me Kate, that of winning the Oaks and going on to divisional honors for the year. She comes up to the race well recommended, boasting two wins, a pair of seconds and a third in a quintet of starts. She has been freshened and sharpened since finishing second to Real Delight in the Coaching Club American Oaks and, in view of the large field, seems greatly favored with the No. 1 post position. Sam Boulmetis will be the rider atop the Easton filly, Hushaby Baby, a Questionnaire filly, moved into prominence only recently, win- ning the Gazelle Stakes impressively and leaving in her wake two members of to-s morrows field — Dinewisely and Enchanted Eve. She was timed in 1:45% for a mile and a sixteenth and sent her earnings for the year to close to 5,000, which gives her Conti?Med on Page Forty-Eight Richest Delaware Oaks Engages Sixteen Today Lily White, Hushaby Baby, Sufie, Faberose, Big Mo Match Strides Continued from Page One the advantage in that respect. Ray York will be her rider. Sufie has displayed more than a touch of class this season during her five-race campaign, winning a pair of purses and turned in a bang-up effort when third behind Real Delight and Lily White. A repeat of that effort would find her quite formidable. A rider has not yet been named for trainer Max Hirschs charge. Faberose. Hummy and Big Mo were first, second and fourth in a recent sprint conditioner, each of them showing sufficient ability to rate consideration over the extended distance. Faberose and Big Mo came back to work exceptionally good miles, each being timed in better than an 1:38. "Babe" Hanford will ride Faberose, T_! while Big Mo will have the services of Nick Shuk. Knot Hole, Fleet Rose and Lancaster ter Lady raced together in New York in their eir most recent engagements. Knot Hole, who no v, will be seeking a triple in the Oaks for for the Greentree establishment, which won in in 1940 with Piquet and the following year ;ar with Tangled, was making her seasonal rial bow and was four lengths behind the victorious ic- Lancaster Lady. The latters race J_ was an excellent one, for she came from 13th and last at the quarter pole to be be timed in 1:13%. Fleet Rose was second ad in the race, just as she was in her only nly previous start. The lone 1951 stakes winner in the field eld is Place Card, who accounted for the the Astarita last summer. She has, however, rer, been unimpressive in five jstarts this year, :ar, finishing unplaced on each* occasion. Dine-wisely, ae- on the other hand, has been in the the money "requently, finishing second in the the Black Helen and the Black-Eyed Susan. an. ad only nly field eld the the rer, year, :ar, ae- the the the the an. Stagestruck. Enchanted Eve, Lively Gal, One Miss and Brechin shape up as named as the outsiders. Stagestruck, who was in front of Real Delight briefly in the Ken- tucky Oaks, scored an upset victory here recently, downing Enchanted Eve. One Miss was second to Roman Law, while Brechin was beaten off when third behind High Scud. Lively Gal was third to Sate and Roman Law here.
