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Connors Corner ■ By "CHUCK" CONNORS . Heavy Shipments to Delaware Park Bucked Shins Sideline Nashua Jockey Green Traveling About BELMONT PARK, Elmont, L. I., N. Y., May 28. — This is a big week end in racing • and the stake offerings are heavily sugared. The The Coachine Coaching Club Club The The Coachine Coaching Club Club American Oaks and the Suburban take top billing here Saturday and Memorial Day while Garden State presents the Jersey Stakes and Colonial Handicap. At Delaware Park which bows in on Saturday for its inaugural, the Wilmington and Brandywine Han-dicaDS dicaps are are the the two two big big dicaps are are the the two two big big offerings. The starters for these out-of-town offerings will draw its star performers and jockeys from New York tracks as per custom. However, the majority of these will be returned to this area following fulfillment of theif various chores but a goodly number will be classed as absentees until close on to the Saratoga Springs session. The shipments from here to Delaware Park, ■ according to the van men who handle the movements, are heavier than last year at this date. The lot includes some of the better known stables in entirety or in part and their loss to New York is New Jerseys and Delawares gain. However, the men and women who pay the freight on their respective menages are entitled to race where and when they chose and who can say otherwise. Trainer James Fitzsimmons reported this morning that Nashua, owned by the Belair Stud, will be shipped to the farm in another week or so. The colt, suffering from bucked shins, will be rested up and permitted to grow until the Saratoga meeting where he is heavily engaged in stake engagements. Fitzsimmons decided that the few engagements he has between now and Saratoga will, if kept, interfere with the colts development ... Jockey Jack Westrope will essay tomorrow a new trick in doubles. He is slated to ride in the first race at Delaware Park and the fifth and sixth at Garden State. He will motor between the two tracks using the New Jersey turnpike as the main link in the trip. Jockey E. Hodriguez heads for New Jersey tomorrow to do some riding for H. P. Headley. . .Stephen "Laddie" Sanford returned from a fishing trip off the Florida Keys and reported that the weather was good. . .Trainer Hollie Hughes reported that Fulton, owned by the Sanford Stud Farm, came out of his last race with a filled leg. He rapped himself in the hurdle event in which he finished second... Trainer Jack Skinner reported that the two-year-old Taras Hall, owned by the Rokeby Stable, had been gelded. . .Larry Beecher, a New Yorker and graduate of the University of Virginia, has been granted the nom de course of the Colonnade Stable. The. assumed name is for the colonnades that adorn the main buildings at his alma mater. Scent, owned by George D. Widener, was shipped to Delaware Park for engagements at that track. . .Trainer Morris Dixon reported that Lord Willin, owned by Arthur Godfrey, came out of his initial engagement with bucked shins . . .Trainer Preston Burch will ship First Aid, owned by the Brookmeade Stable, to Delaware Park for his engagement in the Brandywine Stakes. The colt will be ridden by Nick Shuk. . .Jockey Hedley Woodhouse will go to Garden State Park to ride Sunshine Nell, owned by Meyer J. Kaplan in the Colonial Handicap on Memorial Day. . .Trainer Jake Byer reported that Halcyara, owned by M. Rosenthal, is at Meadow Lane Farm in upper New York to be bred to Wait A Bit. She recently foaled a colt by Bold Salute, a son of Bold Venture. Jockey Bennie Green will do some traveling in the next few days. He heads for Lincoln Fields tonight to ride a starter for the Hasty House Farm on Saturday, then over to Delaware Park for a series of engagements on Monday and then here for Tuesdays engagements. . .Jockey George Glass-ner will ride Alerted in the Suburban for the Hampton Stable according to trainer Ray DeStefano . . .Trainer Jim Ryan shipped a draft of the Mrs. J. R. H. Thou-ron horses to Delaware Park. He plans to leave several here for steeplechase and hurdle events... Pat Kelley, who recently became affiliated with the Crown Crest Farm of Howard Reineman, was among yesterdays visitors. . .Mrs. L. V. Bellew, Jr., wife of the well known trainer "Bud," was on hand yesterday for the first time. She was recently discharged from. Johns Hopkins Hospital in. Baltimore for a minor heart ailment. . . -
