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Delaware : "v . . . - By Charles Hatton Enter All Star Field for New New Castle Cerise Reine Looms Favorite in Open Race Delaware Park Has Ready Made Turf Course DELAWARE PARK, Stanton, Del., June 24. A most accomplished field of 16 was named overnight for the introductory running of the "new" New Castle of 5,000 added here on the week end. These include the improved Blue Violin, the one-time Canadian Horse of the Year, Cana-diana, the erstwhile Coaching Club American Oaks heroine. Grecian Queen, the former two-year-old filly champion Evening Out, the 1954 winner Gainsboro Girl, the record-breaking Cerise Reine, the 1954 stakes-winning mare Lavender Hill, and the rapid Clear Dawn. As you might imagine, the" horsemens response to the second lap of the "Distaff Big Three" is more than gratifying to the management of this sporting club. The mile Delaware Park course is 100 feet wide at all points, and the club can start fields of 28 anywhere, thus there is no question of splitting these things. No Sophomore Named for Event Remarkably enough, no three-year-old has. been named for the New Castle, but the champion of this division, Wheatleys hickory-tough High Voltage, is to return here after Mondays Gazelle to oppose older rivals in the Delaware Handicap of a mile and a quarter, which may gross 50,000, and in any case is the worlds richest filly-and-mare event. Those who expert such mysterious matters estimate that Cerise Reine will be the favorite, and the Dan Rices will be here to lend her moral support. She is expected to be about 3 to 1 in an .open betting race. And the fact that the rains have made the Stanton going yielding certainly will not. militate, against her chances. . You may remember that the daughter of Requested won a Delaware Oaks .here in the slop, cashiering both Grecian -Queen and- Bubbley by an authoritative 15 lengths. She recently at this meeting stripped in excellent bloom and condition in a successful pyernighter. The feeble response to Delaware Parks steeplechase events suggests to us that the club might better convert one of its two courses to a grass tra"ck. It has the turf and Clark Pardee would be confronted with no insurmountable, task in banking the turns on what Is called the "small course." Turf competition has caught on astonishingly everywhere it is offered in this country. The races usually fill satisfactorily, more and more high class performers are being trained for this facet of the sport, and Pimlico and Laurel already have replaced their hedge courses with grass tracks profitably. The emphasis upon this phase of racing is such that any clubs which now offer flat racing through-the-field are assured an abundance of material. Gil Haus, Delawares knowledgeable racing- secretary and handicapper, serves in the same capacity at Randall Park, to where he goes immediately upon the conclusion of this meeting. Saul Silbermans Cleveland course opens on July 16 and runs through September 5. It is proposed to offer 10 stakes features during this span. . Most important of these is the Buckeye Handicap, for three-year-olds and upward at a mile and a furlong. Its endowment has been increased from 5,-000 to 0,000 added. The. Great Lakes, which is for three-year-olds at a mile and a sixteenth, has been advanced from 5,000 added to 0,000. There is also the Ohio Futurity, which has been increased to 0,-000 added, and is for two-year-olds who are the property of bona fide residents of the Buckeye State. The sport in Ohio is "uptrending" this summer, and Randall is one of its pleasantest tracks. The racing surface there has been entirely resurfaced for the meeting this season. Parlo Awaits Rich Delaware Handicap Turf ana: Parlo is on the grounds for the Delaware Handicap. . . . D. A. Headley is planning a brief vacation along the Great Lakes before the Keeneland sales. ... He is "an expert navigator. ... Don. Ross Cochise sires them amply big enough. . . , Randalls Youthful will this summer have 5,000 added. . . . The head of Resilient, 1954 Buckeye winner, adorns the stakes blanks. . . . The TRPBs Jack Loome is active herei . . . The chestnut, Pollys Jets only marks are a star and a snip. . . . The Walter M. Jeffords were on hand to see their Roodles win the other day. . . . John McShain was present for the Christiana. . . . Eddie Arcaro returns to handle High Voltage in the Delaware, last and easily the richest est. value 50,-000 of the "Distaff Big Three." . . . Mile. Lorette, stakes-winning daughter of Gallorette, voted the top race mare of the last half century, now is turned out at Mrs. Marie Moores place in Virginia. She was unfortunately cut down in her first sally this season. . . . The Breeders Sales Companys J. B. Faulconer will visit Delaware Park and other eastern tracks in the interests of the summer yearling auctions. . . . Charles Town confidently expects a successful meet with that opening July 1st. . . . The handsome Doubledogdares Stakes form has focused many breeders attention on Double Jay, who serves at Claiborne Farm. . . . Alan Clarke, who used to pitch for the Cincy Reds, is campaigning his useful string at this meet Aeschylus is named for the noted Greek dramatist of ancient times. . . - Russell Downes departed for the "interior" to saddle-Blazing Count for the Ohio Derby; . . . The record-shattering Helioscope is conspicuous by his absence from the Sussex. ... He and High Gun are in Aqueducts Brooklyn on July 9.
