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Delaware By Charles Hatton Pollys Jets Half-Brother Reared by Cow Delaware Chase Events Lacking Support Georgetown Run Today as Betless Feature DELAWARE PARK, Stanton, Del., June 23. Johnny McShains muscular chestnut, Pollys Jet, named for his youthful daughter, is infinitely the smartest of the t.wn-vpar-olds two-year-olds we we have have seen seen thus thus t.wn-vpar-olds two-year-olds we we have have seen seen thus thus far in the season. His success in the Christiana here yesterday found "him "beating nobody" with consummate authority, and it was his sixth in as many trips to the post. He created a minus s show pool of more than 4,000. The sleek son of Polynesian and Marys Dell was handled with supreme confidence by Eddie Arcaro and completed the five furlongs in :58Vs, :ooys, which wmcn equaled equaled the me stake suutt: :58Vs, :ooys, which wmcn equaled equaled the me stake suutt: record and was only a fifth of a second behind Beau-gays track mark. Nobody doubts he could have bettered the track record had there been any occasion for it, though Arcaro stirred him up a bit coming to the sixteenth pole to keep his mind on the business at "hand. McShain Colt Always an Eye Catcher Duval Adams Headley, the Kentucky racing commissioner who bred and broke Pollys Jet, tells us he always was an "eye catcher," and we must say we like the resolute way he drops his head and goes to running so objectively, though he is not the fastest breaker in training. He incidentally nowvhas a weanling half-brother by the sprinter I Will at Manchester Farm. This youngsters dam orphaned him and he was offered two nurse mares, instead was reared by a Hol-stein cow. It is really quite remarkable that with a broodmare band of no more than 10, Headley already had produced the champions Tom Pool, Aunt Jinney and now Pollys Jet in .the space of just a few years. Aunt Jinney now has a filly foal by High Voltages sire, Ambiorix, and the. stakes winner Grownlet is in foal to Tom Fool. Gaga, named for the Headley girls grandmother Graham, has been bred to Count Fleet and is believed to be in foal. Delaware Park is keeping faith with, the chase set, but it is entirely "pour le sport." The two most recent hedge events in the book failed to fill, and the 0,000 added Georgetown Steeplechase Handicap this Friday afternoon will be presented as a special, betless event at 1:15 p.m. Barring possible scratches, only five interests are represented, even though the horsemen made their point and it is to be decided on the smaller of the two courses. The local Stanton club is making a generous contribution to the perpetuation of this phase of the sport. It has been estimated that it would be possible to lump all of the Delaware chases at Fair. Hills, running eight flat events daily at the local park, and pay the purses for the hedge events, and still show more profit at this meeting. A check of the play and restaurant patronage does not at all support the shibboleth that when a chase is programmed there is some corresponding upsurge in attendance and. "tote" action. That may have been true at one time, but now is just nonsequitur. Steeplechases have become a kind of con-nivial social gathering. Almost entirely overlooked in all the fuss over the lucrative "Distaff Big Three" is the fact that Delaware Park again this season will renew its 5,000 added Sussex Handicap, a run of a mile and a quarter which is to be decided on the Fourth of July. The eligibles for this 17th renewal of the Sussex named for the county include King" Ranchs formidable High Gun, Foxcatchers brilliant mare Parlo, Maine Chances rapid Jet Action, Brookmeades Capeador, Blue Stone Farms Scimitar and Belairs comeback aspirant Golden Gloves. The race thus may once again develop a contest which will have a significance to the voting on the seasons handicap honors, as it did when Royal Vale, Stymie, Cochise and Masked General were the winners. It was Royal Vales misfortune to be contemporaneous with Greentrees stalwart Tom Fool, but he, established a 10 furlongs mark here which still stands as a challenge when he won the Sussex under a steadier of 130 pounds in 2:00. Ryan and Westrope End Losing Slump Turf ana: Jim Ryan and Jack Westrope terminated a slump when Currituck won, here the other day. That was Westropes 34th mount here. His confreres of the jocks quarters made an avenue of towels to his locker, and lined up to congratulate him. Very touching. . . . Saratoga is not a probable for the Dwyer. . . . Raj Mik-konen, the Finnish apprentice, returns Saturday following a sojourn of one day to Monmouth. He is to ride Lazy Fs Cannonade in an overnighter. . . . The admissions Softball team played the Delaware state police at the recreational field here last night,- today competes with the Delaware Giants for the championship in the Delaware Park league. . . . Laurels International may bring together the winners of the French, Epsom and Kentucky Derbys. Joe Cascarella will visit Italy for some missionary work later in the season. . . . Oleg Dubassoff is here for the chase season. . . . Maharajah is a prospect for the Sussex. . . . Hen Party comes from Abernants family. . . . Bird-Speakmah staged a fashion show here today. . . . "Downey" Bonsai, Max Hirsch and John Leyland are nip and tuck for training honors at the meeting. . . . Walter Annenberg is a visitor to Spain. Has an audience with Franco. ... Joe Chfnn, Jr. chairman , William Richardson and William Ayres of the Delaware racing commission are frequently in attendance. . . . "Doc" Jones of Buffalo and Virginia is a regular. . . . Two of the six in the Christiana were by Polynesian. . . . Only 1.87 per cent of Delaware Parks play is earmarked for maintenance and other expenses.
