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Delaware By Charles Hatton Saratoga Looms One-to-Beat in Richards Running Mate Westward Ho on Improve King Ranch Annex Near Delaware Park DELAWARE PARK, Santon, Del., June 10.— The sporting Stanton club this week end presents its 5,-000 added Leonard Richards of nine furlongs, most — imnortant of the local season for the male three-year-olds, though it is not programmed specifically for that sex. It will be complemented here next Saturday by the 5,000 added Delaware Oaks over the same ground, exclusively for the three-year-old fillies and the first lap of the "Distaff Big Three." Though the Richards conflicts directly with the Belmont Stakes, it. has attracted a t: 1 : ~ -I -3 _« „ -m r i- lively nciu ui veil, ivjlvjso ic- nowned of these is the Long and Scott entry of Westward Ho, recent winner of the Kent Stakes at this point, and the courageous if somewhat excitable, Saratoga, runner-up to Nashua in a thrilling renewal of the Preakness. Under the terms of the Richards, Westward Ho must concede the sleek, black Blenheim H. colt, who is his running mate seven pounds, himself carrying a relatively cumbersome 126. But secretary Gil Haus and other perceptive racing men expect them to go away as odds-on chances to turn back the Blue Grass Stakes winner Racing Fool, Alibhai Lashes, Thinking Cap, Midpassage and Imagem.
