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Eighty-Four Nominees Made for Kent Stakes Winners of Nine Stakes This Year on Delaware Park Roster DELAWARE PARK, Stanton, Del., May 26. — Winners of four Derbys this year and many other stake stars of three-year-old division are among 84 nominees for Delaware Parks 5,000 Kent Stakes, June 13 feature of the 32-day meeting which gets under way Friday and continues through July 4. The mile and a sixteenth Kent will be having its sixteenth running and the nomination total tops that of both last season and 1951. The four 1953 winners of Derbys named for the Kent are: Cain Hoy Stables Dark Star, Kentucky Derby, Calumet Farms Chanlea Santa Anita Derby, Joe W. Browns Matagorda Louisiana Derby , and Edward M. Goemans Curragh King Arkansas Derby. Chanlea captured Santa Anitas San Vicente stakes, while Dark Star, in addition to his Derby triumph, won the Derby Trial. However, it was announced last night that Dark Star had bowed a tendon and would be retired from racing. In all, nine winners of 113 stakes this year to date are Kent eligibles. This select group is rounded out by Royal Bay Gem Everglades, Chesapeake and Jersey ; Straight Face Flamingo ; Ram o War division of Fountain of Youth ; Correspondent Blue Grass and Hueso Cherry Blossom. Other prominent nominees include Invigorator, County Clare, Real Brother, Social Outcast, Isasmoothie, Fly "Wheel, Platan, etc. The leading nominators, each with three horses, were Cain Hoy, Greentree and C. V. Whitney. Greentree, which named Powhatan and Lotus Eater with Straight Face, won the Kent with Wine List in 1949 and Hall of Fame in 1951. Woodvale Farm clicked in 1944 with Kay tee and in 1948 with Page Boots, and entered Jimminy Baxter this time. Seeking a second success are Mrs. C. O. Iselin Strabo, 1937 with Bradley ; Wheatley Stable Stormscud, 1938, Hilarious; J. W. Brown Minnelusa, 1941, Matagorda and C. O. Dorsett; Mrs. W. M. Jeffords Natchez,-1946, Maabrook, and King Ranch High Scud, who set a new track mark last year, Dont Ask and Gran Chaco. The Kent will feature the first coast-to-coast telecast ever sent out from the stat6 of Delaware. It will be carried over most of the stations on NBCs nationwide television network, and also broadcast nationally by ABC, as one of a series of 10 major eastern stakes being thus aired by those companies.
