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Royal Vale Nominated For Brandywine Handicap Fifty-Three Made Eligible for Delaware Parks June 6 Stake STANTON, Del.. May 19. — Mrs. Esther duPont Weirs Royal Vale, an English five-year-old, who already shapes up as one of the most improved handicap horse of 1953 and a strong candidate for championship honors, is among the 53 nominations for Delaware Parks 0,000 Brandywine Handicap. The mile and a sixteenth fixture, its added money doubled this year, will be run on June 6 of the 32 -day meeting, which gets under way May 29. The nominations list tops that of 1952, when 35 horses were named. Mrs. Walter M. Jeffords, seeking a third straight Brandywine success, has entered Yildiz, the 1952 victor, and Post Card, who dead-heated with Cochise in 1951. Royal Vale, just a so-so campaigner last season in hurdles and flat competition, has come into his own this year with triumphs in the Miami Beach Handicap, a Hialeah turf course special in which he set a new North American time mark for a mile and a half on grass; the Bowie, Gallant Fox and Dixie Handicaps. Among other winners of major stakes this season are Brookfield Farms Intent, Alfred G. Vanderbilts First Glance, Mrs. Samuel M. Pistorios Tuscany, and Brook-meade Stables First Aid. Brookmeade, nom de course of Mrs. Dodge Sloane, heads the Brandywine nominators numerically with four, having named Roaring Bull, Sunglow and Picador along with First Aid. Last March 7, Intent accounted for Santa Anitas 00,000 San Juan Capistrano. Count Turf, the 1951 Kentucky Derby winner, is another interesting nominee for the Brandywine, having recorded his first stakes as a juvenile in Delaware Parks Dover of 1950. He and the year-younger Mr. Turf both are Brandywine nominations made by J. J. Amiel. Many other widely known thoroughbreds are named for this fourth of 14 stakes on Stanton tracks schedule. On the list released by racing secretary J. Gilbert Haus are, to name a few: One Hitter, Alerted, To Market, Ken, Cold Command, Golden Gloves, King Jolie, Brelmurn, High Scud, Ancestor and Eolus.
