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: 1 ! ! Four Delaware Chase Races Draw 117 Total Roby, Georgetown, Spring Maiden And Indian River to Be Renewed DELAWARE PARK, Stanton. Del.. May 16. — The four steeplechase stakes to be renewed at Delaware Parks 32-day meeting this season have attracted exactly the same number of nominations they drew last year — 117, according to the list of eligibles released today by racing secretary J. Gilbert Haus. In accordance with annual custom, the 0,000 added Tom Roby Stakes of June 22 will again usher in the steeplechase phase of the rport here. The Roby is for four-year-olds and upward who never have won a sweepstakes-hurdle, spring maiden and Hunt meetings excepted. The 0,000 added Georgetown Steeplechase Handicap will be run June 26, to be followed on June 30 by the Spring Maiden Steeplechase, ,000 added — one of a series of three races run at Belmont Park, Aqueduct and Delaware Park. The fourth and final jumping fixture is the 0,000 added Indian River Steeplechase Handicap. This special, scheduled for July 3, is at a distance of about two and a half miles, the others being a half-mile shorter. Among the Indian River and Georgetown nominees are the 1952 and 1951 winners of those events. James F. McHughs Jam took the 52 Indian River and Mrs. Esther duPont Weirs The Mast accounted for last seasons Georgetown. The Rokeby Stables Crooning Wind captured both stakes in 1951. Another formidable candidate for those stakes is Montpeliers Sea Legs, who recently won the first steeplechase stake of the 1953 season at Belmont Park— the International. The second, third and fourth horses in the International — Hunting Fox. The Mast and Weather Deck — all are in the Indian River and Georgetown. Hunting Fox and Weather Deck also were named for the Tom Roby. The Mast won the 1951 Roby. Mrs. Weir and F. Ambrose Clark were the heaviest nominators to Delawares "chase fixtures. Each named four for the Roby and two for both the Indian River and Georgetown, while Clark has five eligibles in the Spring Maiden. Among other well known candidates for Delaware brush events are Navy Gun, The Creek. Fracas, Monkey Wrench. Cherwell, Golden Furlong, Montadent, Titien II., Gerrymander, and the like.
