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Delaware By Charles Hatton Lucky Dip Impresses as improving Sort Blinkers of Some Benefit to Barbizon Rosewood Aims at Oaks Here, at Belmont DELAWARE PARK, Stanton, Del., June 3. All was well with the state of Delaware Park racing today. The sporting Stanton club will be free to continue with its bazaar of stakes events, sans any competition from Jersey, during the ensuing week. Hordes of the Skeeter States well-healed patrons are hopefully expected to-descend on this countryside course, quickening its slow pulse j and rescuing it from lapsing into a garden party with accompanying horse races. This last is always imminent at the park courses, such as this one and Keeneland. They have a delight ful, somnolent charm that-invites the casual approach, but interest must be stirred and sustained to ward off j indifference. One would think Delaware Park will be I safe this week, what with the Polly Drummond on Wednesday, and the 5,000 added Leonard Richards next. Saturday. The Richards will bring out many of the same competitors who appeared for last week-ends Kent. Anybody who was looking for the Belmont winner to emerge from the Kent probably feels disappointed, and that he might better have referred to the chart of the Peter Pan up at Belmont. The local race brought chaos out of confusion so to speak. Capt. Harry Guggenheims Lucky Dip won like an improving sort, however, and he has returned to Long Island, with a possibility he will be afforded a chanceln the last of the seasons Triple Crown events. He is an engaging little fellow, with a tranquil and cooperative disposition, who intrigues internationalists as a son of Baron Guy de Rothschilds young French classicist Alizier. i Frankly we must confess we do not know quite what to make of Barbizon. and Jimmy Jones said on the backstretch this morning:" "It doesnt look now as if I have any Belmont prospects. I saw Barbizons race on TV and I think the blinkers may have helped to the extent he responded as far as he was able. Some of my horses came down with a peculiar virus last season and he was one of them. I think he still may be feeling the effect of it." Jones indicated that Barbizon may try again in the Richards. Inswepts race was worth a victory at the weights, and he is eligible for the GNYAs 00,000" attraction. Iron Liege, who has a splint, still is at Garden State Park, with a possibility he will come here before proceeding to the Arlington prairie. Acorn Results to Have Effect on Oaks Field The best of the sport here is dedicated to the feminine gender of performers, with the Oaks first of the Distaff Big Three a week from next Saturday. As you might imagine, everyone has an ear-to-the-grouhd at the moment, awaiting the result of todays Acorn. Its winner may help invest the local Oaks with glamour. Meanwhile, some of the eligibles now on the pastoral Stanton scene are" at work for this estimated 0,000. Don Ross Summer Song ran a sort of off-beat race Saturday, but she was beaten a step at the start, which compromised that form. The surprising winner was Marbella, an Oaks eligible who ran down Bakht with fine resolution. This one has come a long way since the days of last season, when she was beaten repeatedly at Hagerstown. This observer has been, quixotically perhaps, trying to make a good filly out of Mrs. Gene Markeys Rosewood. She has a penchant for distance and Jones has not given up on her, saying that "if she does satisfactorily she will run in the Oaks here, then in the. CCA Oaks at Belmont Park." Turf ana: Delaware Park is aiming at some rather challenging, defiant track records. The largest crowd and handle in its history were recorded July 5, 1954, when 35,473 poured a golden ,227,562 through the tote. . . . Overseeing the reconstruction in Laurels grandstand is George H. "Brick" Martin, the versatile vice-president and general manager, who is a graduate engineer of New York University. . . . Because the Laurel clubs fall meet is confined to 11 days it is probable one of the stakes will be dropped. At this writing, it appears the Spalding Lowe Jenkins for two-year-olds will be the casualty. . . . Delaware boasts four courses, attended by Clarke Pardee and a staff of 150 workmen. . . . The Stanton track has 12,000 seats under cover, a total of about 20,000. Film Patrol SoWes Depth Problem A prevalent shibboleth that lacks validity has it that firing, per se, entirely accounts for the recovery of injured horses. Oftener than not, it is the rest the treatment enforces. . . . Mrs. Gene Markeys black Rosewood is rather upright on her pasterns in front and once had on ankle, but is very serviceable now. This sociable filly occupies a stall next to Barbizon, a taking individual, if a little "hog-backed," as horsemen say. Both would now be more professional could they have gained the experience at two. . . . There are stalls here for 1,408 horses. . . . Delawares film patrol is unique. It solves the depth problem with synchronized cameras taking both head-on and side views, providing a third dimensional view of the final quarter mile. .. . . The Charles Town horse show has been granted dates for a meeting from August 12 to August 17.
