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Anticipate Sizable Line-Up for Kent First of Delawares Stakes For Sophomores to Attract I Geegee, Unbeaten in 1954 By PALMER HEAGERTY Staff Correspondent DELAWARE PARK, Stanton, Del., June 2. The 5,000 added Kent Stakes, first of two important three -year-old offerings during the Delaware Park session, comes up for renewal on Saturday afternoon and a sizeable field is anticipated for the mile and one-sixteenth event. The Kent will be followed by the 2,500 added Leonard Richards at a mile and one furlong on the next week end. The JKent, which numbers Natchez, Wine List, Your Host and Hall of Fame among if e nrowmiK! winnorc nrmflinfc wifVl "Rpl - mont Parks Peter Pan but a representative field seems assured for the local offering. Foremost among the prospects are Brook-field Farms I Geegee, Greentree Stables Palm Tree and Mrs. Ada L. -Rices Ring King. I Geegee, a grand-looking son of Brook-field, was withdrawn from last weeks Jersey Stakes and remains unbeaten in a trio of sophomore engagements. He took his seven-furlong debut in 1:26 at Bowie, then moved to Garden State to win a pair of engagements, winning a mile and 70 yards event, then dropping "down to six furlongs to account for a division of the Delaware Valley Stakes. Palm Tree Idle Since Withers Palm Tree and Llangollen Farms Ordained have already taken up local quarters following trips from New York and are certain to be formidable in the Kent. Palm Tree has not raced since the Withers, in which he was fourth behind Jet Action. Ordained last competed at six furlongs and beat a fairly shifty field over a sloppy track. Ring King, the Chesapeake winner, turned in a respectable effort when sixth in the Preakness and prior to that was third .in the Preakness Prep, in which he tired in the final furlong. He was worked six furlongs in 1:14 just before Tuesdaysraces and should come up to the Kent in peak condition. Rustic Billy will go into the Kent with two successive victories during the Pimlico meeting, each of them in very impressive fashion. On each occasion his victim was Jouett Shouses Ladd, a capable campaigner, if not of stakes caliber. Other prospects for the Kent include: Bohemia Stables Kopes Baby, Christiana Stables Menemsha, Circle M Farms War Doings, Claiborne Farms Limelight, Fox-catcher Farms Chevation, George Gal-breaths Roman Mirage, Louis Lee Haggin, H.s Homestake; Joseph Kaplowitz Brass Ring, Mrs. H. A. Parr, HI.s Staffordshire, Alfred Roberts Thither, C. V. Whitneys Catspaw, and Miss Ann TJhlars Tiercel.
