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— • HILL GAIL, the 1952 Kentucky Derby winner who is now at Arlington Park, is shown with Donald Devine up, and accompanied by trainer Ben Jones. New Castle Attracts 58 Nominations Richest Filly-Mare * Race Carded July 4 Kiss Me Kate,Grecian Queen, Cerise Reine, Parading Lady, A Gleam on Delaware Roster STANTON, Del., May 25.— The richest race in the world for fillies and mares — Delaware Parks 00,000 added, mile and a quarter New Castle Handicap — has attracted 58 nominations including defending champion Kiss Me Kate, it was announced today by racing secretary J. Gilbert Haus. The race will have its sixteenth running on July 4, closing day of the local tracks 32-day meeting which gets under way Friday, and will provide members of the distaff division with their first exclusive shot at a "Hundred-Grander" — something which has been widely acclaimed by breeders, owners and trainers. The added money value of the event has been doubled this season, and the number of nominees tops last years total by 17. Also significant is the fact that an unusually large number of three-year-olds were named this season — 26. In the 15 previous runnings, only four sophomores managed to defeat older rivals. The New Castle is expected to gross more than 20,000 and net the winner in excess of 4,000 — which, of course, will be determined by the number of starters. Jeffords Named Delaware Director Walter M. Jeffords, seeking a second straight New Castle success with Kiss Me Kate, recently became the newest member of Delaware Parks board of directors and his noted mare is one of seven 1953 stakes winners named for the July 4 special. Others include Alfred Vanderbilts Femme Fatale Santa Susana Stakes, J. W. Browns Parading Lady Correction Handicap Mrs. Ada L. Rices Cerise Reine Ashland Stakes Calumet Farms A Gleam Malibu Sequet Stakes Mrs. B. F. Whit-akers Grecian Queen Prioress Stakes, and Mrs. Wallace Gilroys Emardee Jasmine Stakes. Mrs. Jeffords and four other owners also will be trying for a second triumph in the New Castle victory of Adile. Miss Constance inated the 1952 Alabama winner, Lily White, as her reliance to duplicate the 1950 "New Castle victory of Adile, Miss Constance Morabito, whose Monida triumphed in 1942, named a daughter of that mare — My Celeste — who finished third last year. Fox-catcher Farm, victorious in the 1937 first running of the event with Rosenna, is represented by Faberose. Arold Hanger Dotted Swiss, 1941 nominated Rica Rosie, and Ogden Phipps Busanda, 1951 is relying upon His Duchess. Vanderbilt, King Ranch and C. V. Whitney head the nominators numerically, each with three horses: Vanderbilt — Femme Fa-tale, Home-Made, Facts of Life; King Ranch — Mac Bea, Islay Mist, Sufie; Whitney — Flamenco, Carry the News, Ming Yellow. Other topnotchers among the eligibles include La Corredora, Big Mo, Tritium, How, Marta, Princess Lygia, Singing Beauty and similar stakes campaigners.
