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Leonard Richards Attracts 80 Stars Dark Star, Native Dancer Among Classy 3-Year-Olds Named for Delaware Stake DELAWARE PARK, Stanton, Del., May 9. — Native Dancer and Dark Star head a list of 80 three-year-olds named for Delaware Parks Leonard Richards Stakes to be renewed on June 20 during the 32 -day meeting which opens May 29 and concludes July 4. Other winners of important 1953 stakes included in the nominations announced by racing secretary J. Gilbert Haus are Green-tree Stables Flamingo victor, Straight Face; Trio Stables Laffango, winner of the Experimental and a division of the Gotham, and Joe W. Browns Matagorda, triumphant in the Louisiana Derby. Cain Hoy Stables Dark Star, of course, was the equine hero of the Kentucky Derby and earlier had won the Derby Trial. Alfred G. Vanderbilts celebrated Native Dancer, prior to his much-discussed first defeat in the Derby, a head behind Dark Star, captured the other division of the Gotham and the Wood Memorial. The mile and a furlong Leonard Richards, like the Delaware Oaks, is an early-closing special which figures to gross at least 0,000, including 0,000 in added money — which is increased each season by ,500. Other Prominent Nominees Other prominent nominees, some of them juvenile stakes winners and some close up in topnotch company at two or three, include Navy Page, Social Outcast, Tahitian King, Prince Dare, Real Brother, Platan, Bradley, Breeze By, Bassanio, Jamie K., Mr. Paradise, Pasco, Landlocked and Isa-smoothie. Heading the nominators, each with three horses, were Brookmeade Stable, Vander-bilt, C. V. Whitney, Cain Hoy, Rokeby Stable and King Ranch. "* Of the many stables represented, six have won the Richards before: Greentree, Mrs. W. M. Jeffords, King Ranch, H. P. Headley, J. C. Brady and Mrs. C. Oliver Iselin. The Greentree establishment of J. H. "Jock" Whitney and his sister, Mrs. Charles Shipman Payson, has been most successful with three triumphs — Swing and Sway, 1941; Dockstader, 1945, and Hall of Fame, 1951. The noted stable this season named the promising Lotus Eater along with Straight Face. The June 20 running will be the sixteenth and richest in the history of the race.
