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High Voltage Due to Van to Delaware Today for Saturdays Stake Objective Wheatley Miss Comes Out Of Gazelle in Good Fettle; Open Sesame Works Route By CHARLES HATTON DELAWARE PARK, Stanton, Del., June 28. The most interesting news on the 50,000 Delaware Handicap front this morning was trainer Jim Fitzsimmons "announcement that Wheatleys good gray High Voltage will van down from Aqueduct on Wednesday to fill her engagement in Saturdays epic mile and a quartex-. The veteran trainer said that this chic daughter of Ambiorix came out of her hard skirmish in the Gazelle in which she vas beaten a head and a neck in good fettle, and jockey Ted Atkinson will be along to ride her. Atkinson had the mount on the Phipps filly in the Coaching Club American Oaks back at Belmont Park. Jockey Eddie Arcaro, who has a call on her for the year anytime her engagements do not conflict with Nashuas, will be busy the same afternoon at Aqueduct trying to make that son of Nasrullah win the Dwyer. Meanwhile, it was learned that Smart Devil, who races for Keenelands Louis Lee Haggin ri., had returned from her fruitless quest of the Gazelle and is likely to be a Continued on Page Forty-Five To Delaware Voday Wheatley Miss Cr 3s Out Of Gazelle in GooJ Fettle; Open Sesame Wos s Route Continued from Page Oie running mate for Hen Party i.i Saturdays history making feature. Trainer Dick Handlen of vrl.e duPonts topweight 128 pounds and I I :ry favorite, Parlo, said this morning that he is delighted, with the way the dauz isr of Heli-opolis" has. trained since arming to this point. "She is confronted vti the heaviest weight she ever has carried," he caid, "and she, is not a big mare, stano : only about 15.1 hands at the wither. Eu cre runs in any going and is at the top cf her form." Handler? added that for scr-? inexplicable reason his charge started wrong more muscular and to thicken out nctceably last autumn, when she ran sm? of her biggest races. Walter Jeffords Open Sr.cc me enlivened things for workwatchers here Jiis morning when she turned in a most creditable mile and a quarter move. The Ne; Castle runner-up was going handily as s:e completed the Delaware Handicap dista ce in 2:06, after completing the mile in l: i02s. Maine Chance Farms P-hers Queen turned in nine furlongs in the fast going in 1:55, following a mile in 1:41. Mrs. Graham may also be repressn :d in Saturdays classic by Incidentally. Another development was the report that jockey William McKinJey Cock will come on from Chicago to have the mount on W. L. Huntleys Rosemary B. TI U mare customarily breaks casually but is capable of a resolute stretch run at the dirriance of the Delaware. Twenty May Go Postward Owners and trainers still are analyzing the Delaware weights, which Were released yesterday by racing secretary Gil Haus, but it is confidently expected that some 20 of the nations outstanding fillies and mares will respond to the bugle. Among, other possibilities, apart from Parlo, High Voltage, Rosemary B., and Smart Devil are Lavender Hill, Clear Dawn, Cerise Reine, Gainsboro Girl, Another Wcrld, Queens Beeches," Spinning Top, Carry the News, Royal Fan, Grecian Queen, Hen Party, June Fete, God Child and several, others. Blue Violin, who won the Honeymoon at Balmoral and was last in the New Castle, will not be a starter in the Delaware Handicap. Nor will the defaulting Evening Out, who ran dismally in last wee-ends intermediate stake in the "Distaff Big Three." J. Caleb Boggs, incidentally, is to present the ornate Delaware Handlcrp, and the states chief executive and Mrs. Boggs will be Don Ross luncheon guests on Saturday. The winning baubles include three solid gold cigarette boxes, one for the owner, another the trainer and fir ally one for the rider of the winner. The boxes are 14 karat and were thought up by Tiffany. J. E. Caldwell and Company, Wilmington jewelers, have them on dis lay in their showcase in the Caldwell lobby. Don Ross, Bryan Field and others of the local organization, one of the most altru- . istic in America, naturally are gratified with the wholehearted response horsemen have accorded their unprecedented filly-and-mare program. The clubs directorate includes a number of breeders of an uncommercial bent and they feel that the "big three" is a contribution to improvement of the breed in this country.
