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Cherokee Rose Goes in Betless Race Faces Trio in Prep For Delaware Oaks Tom Roby Steeplechase to Engage Seven on Monday; Royal Vale in Cavalcade N DELAWARE PARK, Stanton, Del., June 19. — Cain Hoy Stables Cherokee Rose and Mrs. J. R. H. Thourons Royal Vale, prospective winners of the 2,500-added Delaware Oaks and the 5,000-added Sussex Handicap, respectively, are scheduled to see action here on Monday in one of .the outstanding week-day programs ever offered at Delaware Park. The eighth running of the 0,000-added Tom Roby Steeplechase is also scheduled for presentation as the local infield season gets under way. In order to enable Cherokee Rose and Oaks prospects to receive the utmost in training prior to next Saturdays event for three-year-old fillies, the management of the Delaware Steeplechase and Race Association will offer a special no-betting event to be staged between the fourth and fifth races. This mile and one-sixteenth affair carries a purse of ,500, and other stakes prospects in the field are Circle M Farms Level Rippey, Happy Hill Farms June Fete, and Mrs. Marion W. OConnors Busy Nellie. Royal Vale, who returned to competition last week with a smashing second behind Repetoire at six furlongs, competes at the same distance on Monday in the ,500. Cavalcade Purse. His opposition will come from Albert P. Mergardts Maabrook, Mrs. Walter M. Jeffords Post Card, Mrs. Chester A. Lyons Penocc, Brookmeade Stables War King, East Acres Sate and Charles S. Quigleys Pilates Gold. The Tom Roby, which includes American Way and The Mast among its previous winners, pays tribute to the gallant steeplechase jockey who is confined to the Mary Immaculate Hospital, Jamaica, Long Island, where he has bden since June 1, 1942, when involved in a spill with Bayan? Sharps Knights Quest. Roby Entrants and Weights Entered in the Roby, with their weights, are the following: Lazy F Ranchs Coveted, 162; Brookmeade Stables Flaming Comet, 159; Mrs. J. R. H. Thourons Golden Furlong and T. A. Randolphs Uncle Joe, 153 each; Montpeliers Shipboard, 149; Mrs. V. G. Cardys Cammell Laird, 143, and_ Morris H. Dixons Imbursed, who gets in" under 130 pounds with the benefit of the "triple bug." Bryan Field, vice-president and general manager of Delaware Park, said: "Don Ross, our president, and the other -directors at Delaware Park never have flinched from helping horsemen, even when it gets expensive. However, the primary consideration of both horsemen and race tracks should be the race-going public. It is unfair to offer racegoers a onesided contest. "From the standpoint of the modest racegoer, he can neither bet on, nor bet against, an outstanding horse of this kind. While there is much more to racing than merely betting, there is no sense in being an ostrich and pretending that the racegoer is not interested in what happens to his . Now, as to the horse, Mr. Ross and every one else wants such a fine filly to be at her best for not only the Oaks, but the 00,000 New Castle, which is beyond." Prior to scheduling the special event, Delaware officials cleared matters with the Delaware Racing Commission. Joseph W. Chinn, chairman of the commission, said: "We must protect the public interest by giving a good contest. "Ordinarily, the race would have stayed canceled, even though Cherokee Rose is a name horse. But her owner, Harry Guggenheim, stated she is not a work mare. She does not do herself justice in workouts. Since the Oaks field on the twenty-sixth will be a big one, with many of the best fillies in the country going to the post, we wanted the public assured of each starter being at top form. Hence we took this step, which we hope we will not have to repeat."
