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Seventeen Seen for Delaware Cap Dozen in Training On Scene of Race Overall Response to Richest Filly-Mare Stakes Saturday Tribute to Impost Allotments By CHARLES HATTON DELAWARE PARK, Del., June 25.— A census today revealed 17 probable starters in the mile and a quarter of Saturdays richest of all filly-and-mare races, the -50,000 Delaware Handicap, climax of the unique Distaff Big Three. Twelve of these now are training on the scene. They are Calumets Amoret and Princess Turia, H. P. Headleys Attica, H. E, Jacksons Nasrina, C. T. Chenerys Manotick, Lazy P Ranchs French Lagides, Mrs. J. M. Branhams Tournure, E. B. Johnstons Kings Mistake, Eilis Farms Little Pache, King Ranchs Dotted Line, D and H Stables Pardala and Mrs. John R. H. Thourons White Orchid. Additionally, Mrs. Ada L. Rices Pucker Up is due to plane into Newark Airport tonight from California, where she ran a mile in 1:34% at Horiypark, the swiftest recorded by one of her sex racing around two turns. Brookmeades Floral Park and Mrs. Vernon Cardys ILevee van here from Belmont Park on Wednesday. A. B. Hancocks Bayou and George Wideners Rare Treat van from the same point Friday. Tribute to Weight Arrangement This generous response is at once a trib- j ute to Qil Haus equable weight arrangement and a suggestion of a thrilling race among race mares of a calibre commen- j surate with the singular value of the stake. Management is preparing to receive a crowd which may rival the track record crush of 35,473 who were present on the Fourth of July program in 1954. The field for this upcoming Delaware Handicap includes the Delaware Oaks heroine in Bayou and the winner of last week ends sizzling New Castle Handicap in "the glorious cripple," Princess" Turia. i Under the weight arrangement, Amoret, ] unobtrusive while her stablemate won the r New Castle, will make the greatest conceS ] sions, with the top impost of 125 pounds. I The weights range down to 108 on Pardala, 1 while the three-year-old Bayou carries 111, i which places her next to Amoret on the ] arbitrary scale of weights.- 1 Apart from Princess Turia and Bayou, i the probable field includes also Attica, i Nasrina and Manotick, who were second, third and fourth in the New Castle. j The Calumet tandem are considered the ] probable post choices, in any weather, with Willie Hartack and Eddie Arcaro having the riding assignments. j Willie Shoemaker has been tendered three mounts; now is expected to handle , Pucker Up. Bill Boland will ride Dotted | Line, -with the familiar Conn McCreary on , Little Pache. Bobby Ussery may have the with whom he won the leg up on Bayou, j a Acorn Stakes at Belmont Park. £ Steve Brooks, leading rider at this meet- ] ing, handles White Orchid if she is a starter. Sammy Boulmetis is to have the mount on Floral Park, with Hedley Wood- A house riding Levee. It is not known who of the Calumets Arcaro will favor with his x services, but conjectured, this will be Am- , pret. Hartack rode Princess Turia; when she won the New Castle. Other riding contracts are in the making, x The race incidentally places sisters versus one another in Levee and Bayou, while Floral Park is a sister to last Summers surprise winner, Flower Bowl, since retired to the stud. 1 Lagides, a brown filly of unusual scope who won a French stake, was on the track for a handy mile move this morning. The 1 going was in excellent condition and clock- ers tabbed her in 1:42%. This daughter of l Lacaduv, who races for the .Lazy F Ranch i of Mrs. W. S. Farrish and Mrs. R. L. * Gerry, has shown improving form in New York. t H. P. Headleys Attica, who just missed i beating Princess Turia with a spectacular " stretch run in the New Castle, is to be breezed tomorrow morning. She seems not to want her races too close together, but has done beautifully since last Saturdays mile and a sixteenth. Floral Park also is said to have trained well since beating Little Pache in the Belle-rose at Jamaica, and long has been expressly pointing for the Delaware Handicap. She is to be "flown out" at this point on Friday morning. Last week end, trainer Bert Mulholland seemed of two minds" regarding Rare Treats Delaware Handicap status, and vanned her back to Belmont. But it has been decided to return the lathey chestnut daughter of Stymie for her engage- . . . - jCoatiPued J a Pose lortf-fvx ....... See Starting Field of 17 For Rich Delaware 7Cap Twelve Already on Race Scene; Calumet Tandem May Be Choice Continued from Page Six merit. She made up a little ground, as also did Little Pache, though neither concerned themselves with the purse distribution in the New Castle. Hancock reports that Bayou came out of her recent second to the unexpected Willamette in the mile and three furlongs of the Coaching Club Oaks in good order. No three-year-old has won the Delaware since it was advanced to its present tempting value, though Grecian Queen earned 4,600 for winning in 1953. * The richest running was last year, when Flower Bowl earned 09,875 for carrying 112 pounds a mile and a quarter in 2:03, slowest time in five years. Pai*lb earned 128 pounds a mile and a quarter in 2:02% to win 04,900 in 1955. Weather forecasters forsee some relief from the oppressive heat, perhaps late today or tomorrow, when showers are in view. But off-going in midweek is not expected to interfere seriously with the training of the candidates at this time. Most of them require only routine breezes.
