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Delaware By Charles Hatton— ■ Dark Charger Reflects Credit on Sire Mr. frtz Now Points High Voltage for Oaks Estimates Nashua Is on the Improve DELAWARE PARK, Stanton, Del., June 9. — Something of a millenium was reached here yesterday when Helen Kelloggs Dark Charger, a daughter of Depth ■■ r?i-mrf?p — who has been lone re garded as a sort of "quarterhorse sire" — accounted for the import- , ant Polly Drummond Stakes. What is more, she won this five furlongs in the slop "with authority" as they say, coming to the stand three lengths before Special Style, who was a little more than that distance in advance of Rose Carillon, the third to finish in a lively field of 11 of the better two-year-old fillies. The time was as fast as the track, 1:00 flat for the full distance. The withdrawal of the unbeaten Hill Prince filly Pretty Plunger detracted something from the interest in this event, Ada L. Rice deciding to rely upon Special Style, a daughter of the speed sire Roman. The latter turned in a smart effort, but simply was no match for the winner despite sensational Willie Hartacks most industrious shuffling. Maiden Win in New Orleans Dash Dark Charger is a homebred, reared by the Evans-ville, Ind., cereal manufacturers, and the Polly Drummond marked her fourth success in six starts. She had previously won a maiden race, two allowance events and was second in the Bay State Kindergarten, finally earning stakes brackets in yesterdays feature, in which she was deftly handled by Darrell Madden. Her first score came in a quarter mile dash at the New Orleans Fair Grounds, where so many of the progeny of Depth Charge have strutted a brief hour before vanishing into the limbo of obscurity. Dark Chargers race- was run under the most "unfair" weather conditions, a cold, slanting rain driving the crowd into and under the stands and thoroughly saturating the course. Nevertheless, her success delighted a majority of the hardy crowd of some 12,000 present, who wagered ,108,580 on the days eight events. The well developed brown returned .80 in the "tote" and added 1,550 to her earlier earnings, increasing them to 9,180. Delawarians were deeply interested yesterday in the result of the mile and a sixteenth Top Plight Handicap for fillies and mares up at Belmont Park, because of its pertinence to the "Distaff Big Three." The winner, Parlo, runner-up Gainsboro Girl heroine of the- 54 New Castle and the third to finish, Spinning Top, all are eligible to the rich stakes for their sex at this meeting. Parlo carried 126 over the distance in 1:41%, time a mere four -fifths behind the world record established at Golden Gate Fields, which has a marble base. Dick Handlen said this morning that Parlo appears none the worse for her showy performance, and he expects to transfer her to Delaware Park sometime next week. A disappointment of the Top Flight was the Phipps three-year-old filly leader High Voltage, who is a candidate for each of the events comprising the "Big Three." Mr. Fitz is not her apologist, but he did say "she was down on the inside where the going is said to be deepest and Eddie Arcaro did his best to get her out of there. Near the end of the race he seemed to realize she was hopelessly beaten." Wheatley Queen Grew Like Nashua . The sage of Sheepshead Bay added, we are happy to report, that the gray daughter of Ambiorix, who is pretty as a speckled hen, is today none the worse for her engagement. She is to be pointed for the Delaware Oaks, perhaps coming here several days before that 5,000 added run of nine furlongs to "blowout" for the race over this surface. The veteran does not himself plan to be on hand. Chatting of 1954s two-year-old filly champion, he estimates that she has grown and developed over the winter, saying: "I never measure horses but I should guess she is about 16 hands. She is a tall mare, and nothing at all seems to bo.ther her. In this respect she is a good deal like Nashua." • Discussing Nashua, Mr. Fitz indicated that he is doing well for the Belmont, with a half in :45% easily this morning at Aqueduct , and that he will then meet his engagements in the Dwyer, Classic and Travers, provided of course that he continues to train satisfactorily. "I believe with you that his Preakness marked an improvement," he estimated, and in regard to the proposed match, with Swaps, he said "if they chance into the entries together, I would be glad to have Nashua meet Swaps again." Reflecting on the Kentucky Derby, he said that previous to the race most everybody regarded Summer Tan as Nashuas most formidable rival. It could not be foreseen that Summer Tan would choose this auspicious occasion in which to come down with a hot ankle, and the result was that Swaps was" enabled to set his own pace much of the way with only the moderate Trim Destiny prompting him. We* believe that if and when Nashua and Swaps ever meet again the Californian will find himself in company of a buzzsaw from the break. This is no criticism of Arcaros handling of his mount at Louisville. He gave the colt the benefit of the saddle artistry Which has gained him the cognomen of "The Maestro," but Summer Tans bid never materialized and by that time Swaps had virtually breezed on the lead half a mile. If there is a next time it will be quite different* and Nashua Is seemingly a better horse now than he •was back at Louisville.
