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Eatontown May Top Field j For Wilmington Handicap! Slated to Take Up 116 Pounds In Saturdays Delaware Stake DELAWARE PARK, Stanton, Del., May 27. — Alfred Roberts Eatontown, last years winner of the 0,000-added Wilmington Handicap, shapes up as the likely starting topweight in the sixteenth running of the fixture on Saturday when Delaware Park opens its 32-day meeting; The veteran Eatontown, who set a stakes time record of 1:10% for the six-furlong dash a year ago, is weighted at 116 pounds for the week-end test. A large field is in prospect from the list of 46 eligibles and there is a possibility that Mrs. Ada L. Rices Pet Bully, high-weighted at 126 pounds, may accept the issue. Trainer Tommy Kelly was weighing the merits of starting the Valley Forge Handicap victor in the mile and a sixteenth, 0,000-added Brandywine Handicap here Monday and no decision had been reached this morning. Eatontown, who arrived on the grounds early today, has been idle since his track-record victory in the seven-furlong Bowie Handicap. He is scheduled to be ridden by Joe Culmone, who was astride the gelding in his Bowie conquest. Among the probable starters are the second and fourth horses of last years Wilmington in Marlboro Stud farms Jet Master and Belair Studs Hyphasis, respectively. Jet Master, also the runner-up two seasons ago, arrived on the scene from New York yesterday and is weighted at 113. Hyphasis drew 114. Also regarded as possible starters are Howell E. Jacksons Caesar Did, 111; Filippe Baldis Dinner Winner, 110; Harold H. Polks New Dream, HQ; Brookmeade Stables Safety, 108, and War King, 106; Stanley C. Mikells Repetoire, 108; I. J. Collins* Mohammedan, 108; Rokeby Stables Shining, 107; William H. Foleys Huntsville, 100, and Cary C. Boshamers Late Model, 100.
