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List Sixty-One Nominees For Rich Delaware Oaks Grecian Queen, Bubbley, Cerise Reine and Is Proud Are Eligible DELAWARE PARK, Stanton, Del., May 9. — Sixty-one three-year-old fillies were nominated for the fifteenth and richest running of the Delaware Oaks, which will be renewed at Delaware Park on Memorial Day, May 30. The eligibles for the mile and one furlong special include numerous stake stars of this and last year. Candidates who already have won major fixtures this season are Grecian Queen, who captured the Prioress; Bubbley, the Kentucky Oaks; Cerise Reine, the Ashland, and Is Proud, the Betsy Ross. Grecian Queen, Mrs. Ben F. Whitakers ace, as a two-year-old, accounted for four stakes. Other well known threats are Home-Made, Biddy Jane, Flirtatious, Tritium, Wings o Morn, Piedmont Lass, Hows Tricks, Mac Bea, Late Model and Rica Rosie. The Oaks is the second of 14 major stakes to be decided at the 32-day meeting opening May 29 and carrying through July 4. The Delaware Oaks, like the Leonard Richards for male sophomores on June 20, is an early closing event and is expected to have a gross value of at least 0,000, of which 0,000 is added money. The track increases the added money by ,500 each year. Heading the Oaks nominators with three eligibles each are C. V. Whitney, Alfred G. Vanderbilt and the Brandywine Stable of Donald P. Ross, Delaware Parks president. Nine of the stables represented this season have won the Oaks before: Belair Stud three times; Greentree Stable twice; Brookmeade Stable, Lazy F Ranch, Mrs. Whitaker, W. M. Jeffords, Circle M Farm, Vanderbilt, and Whitney. The Circle M Farm of Mrs. Edward S. Moore was triumphant last year with Big Mo and is rely- ing this season on Special Fleet, a daughter of the renowned Count Fleet. For some of the candidates the Delaware Oaks could serve as a stepping stone toward the 00,000 added, mile and a quarter New Castle Handicap, richest race in the world for fillies and mares, which will climax the Delaware meeting on the July 4 closing day program.
