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. ; Delaware Park News and Notes By FRED GALIANI -Map Lillals Future Engagements Church Finds Flying Profitable Eddie DcCamillis Plans Comeback DELAWARE PARK, Stanton, Del., June 2.- Kentuckian Warner L. Jones, Jr., has been having a successful Eastern campaign, climaxed by Lillals victory in the Colonial Handicap at Garden State Park. Next for lillal will be the Top Plight Handicap at Belmont, followed by the New Castle" here and the Regret and Molly Pitcher at Monmouth. Yesterday Jones started Perfect Gem, a full sister of the Derby winner, Dark Star, and she was so lightly regarded she was in the mutuel field and won for a ,000 claiming -tag. .This was the third time she rah to be claimed, but it might be a long time until she goes in that type of race again. . . . Nick Shuk, who injured his left leg when he was unseated leaving the starting gate here opening day, is expected to resume "riding Thursday. . . . Johnny Harkins has taken" over the engagement book of apprentice Frank Vincent, under contract to William Zieerler. Jr. Maryland owner, breeder, "trainer Alan Clarke got a big kick the other day when the oldest of his four daughters, Caroline, aged nine, rode in the Howard County Horse Show. Caroline, better known as "Bunny," was eliminated when the pony refused at the second jump, but she took it gracefully and, as she rode back, patted her pony and said, "Dont worry, Susie, it wasnt your fault." Clarke believes the pony refused because of the white fences, to which .he was unaccustomed. . . . Apprentice Roger LeBIanc, one of the leading apprentices in New Jersey, will ride here Thursday and stay over for a spell. . ; . Muggins Feldman, director of publicity at Atlantic City, is distributing stall applications for the Shores 50 - -day summer meeting. Ralph Mcllvain, making his first appearance here since before the war, plans to assemble a stable for a New York campaign after the close here. . . . Agent Joe Harrigans family was increased by the arrival of a boy, christened Patrick, at Baltimore the other day. Its the second child for the Harrigans. . . . Jack Edgar went to North Carolina Tuesday to attend closing day exercises at Duke University where his daughter, Jean, is a student. . . . Kenny Church, who has made a profitable thing of flying from Chicago for Easterrt stakes, is due next week to handle Dickey Stables Menolene in the Polly Drummond Stakes. Church won the Rancocas Stakes Continued on Page Forty-Three Delaware News-Notes By FRED GALIANI Continued from Page Six with Menolene and the Colonial Handicap with Lillal. Buddy Raines left for Keeneland yesterday to inspect the seven recently arrived foals from the Brandywine stallions, Cochise and Greek Song, at the Eslie Asbury and Cy White farms. He will return here Friday. ... William Helis, Jr.s Helioscope, winner of four of his five starts this year, has been shipped in for Saturdays Kent Stakes. Sammy Boulmetis will do the booting. . . . Elmer Trueman, who has been training horses for 43 years, has six horses in training here and is particularly hopeful for a two-year-old colt called Singing Lance, a son of Burg-el-Arab out of the English mare, St. Ann, owned by Clayton Liddell. The latter, racing on this beat, was a professional fighter in his younger days and his boast is he was knocked down only once in 52, bouts. Eugene Mori, having guided Garden State to a successful spring meeting, allowed no day to lapse and was here for the Tuesday sport. With Jersey closed for 11 days, the boys from that circuit will be well represented at Delaware, and that includes horsemen, trainers, jockeys, grooms, admissions men, waiters and bartenders. Morris Tobe, announcer at Camden, even holds up his department of one and is a regular visitor. . . . Frank Moon is shipping Lutzas Girl back to Frank Brady at Rockingham Park. Franks wife, who has one horse here, carries out the lunar motif of her name on her colors, black with a silver crescent. . . . Eddie DeCamillis has applied I for a jockeys license and plans a come- j back.
