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Dea ware Park Has CoFeatures Today Laran Kinsman Seek Your Host Purse Both Imposted at 723 With4 Common Cause Pound Less Sprint to Test FilliesMares FilliesMaresBy By PALMER HEAGERTY HEAGERTYStaff Staff Correspondent CorrespondentDELAWARE DELAWARE PARK Stanton Del June 10 rYour Host winner of the 1950 Kent and Plucky Maud heroine of the 1944 Delaware Oaks are honored here tomorrow afternoon in the cofeatures of a well bal ¬ anced program The Your Host Purse car ¬ rying a 5000 purse is to be contested at the mile and a sixteenth distance by four yearolds and upwards while the Plucky Maud will feature fillies and mares of the same age at six furlongs for a pot of 4000 4000The The Your Host has attracted E A Nico demus Laran I J Collins Common Cause Mrs F J Vollmers My Nell Mrs James Carsons Kinsman Mrs E Mucklers Jack Jr and R E Dutchers Promptness Named to compete in the Plucky Maud are G de La Fregonnieres Atlanta Hal Price Head leys Recover Walter A Edgars Banta Joe W Browns Wonderful You W W Waters Four Chances and Howell E Jack ¬ sons June Time TimeLaran Laran hasnt raced since Maryland at which point he was a threelength winner in 145 in the mud He had raced but twice previously this year finishing third and second as named The veteran Hairan gelding is a consistent sort as his current record would suggest and he has always raced well over the local track trackKinsman Kinsman and My Nell raced together in a recent local outing finishing heads apart while fourth and fifth behind the three yearold Scimitar The race was good enough to earn Scimitar a starting role in Saturdays Kent and Kinsman and My Nell were beaten but three and a half lengths Jack Jr and Promptness last raced at Garden State the firstnamed turning in a good effort while setting the pace for a mile and finishing five lengths behind Banjoist for 10000 Promptness who hasnt won this year was a similar distance behind Hyphasis at six furlongs the win ¬ ner having been timed in 111 over a good track trackCommon Common Cause a son of Mahmoud hasnt raced since Florida and was unsuc ¬ cessful in eight starts at that point while competing against some of the top allow ¬ ance and handicap horses in the area At one time the former Whitney colorbearer possessed a bit of class and his local trials say he is ready for the question questionThe The Plucky Maud shapes up as a good event with any of the six starters capable of earning the top award Recover though she hasnt been in the money in seven starts this year has a touch of class She last raced in the Colonial Handicap and was a half dozen lengths behind the vic ¬ torious Versify over a sloppy track trackFrenchbred Frenchbred Atlanta made her first start of the year a winning one when she scored in 113 over a sloppy track here last week She beat as swift a filly as Jeannie C on that occasion and may improve even further with that race under her girth girthBanta Banta was a winner in her most recent outing but that was back in March She usually races well here and could prove formidable Four Chances too won her last start while competing over a sloppy track at Garden State Wonderful You finished injthe money for the first time in nine starts when second behind Candle Wood at Garden State June Time will be launching her current campaign and has been made eligible for the New Castle Handicap on closing day