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DELAWARE HANDICAP HANDICAPat at Saratoga Today One stake race is to be run at Saratoga today This is the Delaware Handicap at one mile for threeyearolds and over It was in this event last year that Sun Briar made the present record of 136 for a mile in a race He carried 113 pounds then but was given 128 pounds for this years renewal to which 103 nominations were made Iii the assign ¬ ment of weights Naturalist CudgeJ CudgeJand and Lucullite were each given 130 pounds as topweight horses a rare occurrence in handicapping T TThe The distance of the Delaware has always served to make it a popular race with owners In its first year it was a dash of a mile and a sixteenth but the next year it was cut down to its present distance of one mile and was then won by the rarely good campaigner Chuctanunda in 138 Tlfat was fast time for those days and stood as the record of the race until Sanfords fast filly Vails tied it in 1907 Their joint record stood until 1914 when R T Wilsons Tartar effaced it and substituted 137 This in its turn was the rec ¬ ord of the Delaware until Sun Briar ran his remarkable mile August 6 1918 and defeated Midway Motor Cop Old Koenig Walnut Hall and Westy Hogan Everyone of these contest ¬ ants of last year except Walnut Hall was entered this year The following is a tabulated history of the Delaware Ienr First Age Jockeys Wt Second Age Wt Third Age Wt 1901 Blues 3 Shaw 112 Rockton 4 124 Klnnlklnnk 7100 1902 ChuctannnOa 4 Odom 118 Knight of Rhodes 5 108 Mprnlngslde 4114 1903 GImcrack 3 Gannon 102 Hunter Ralne 4 Ill Highlander 4111 1904 Molly Brant 4 Lyae 112 Stalwart 3 102 Graziallo 3 107 1905 Molly Brant 5 W Knapp 113 Dolly Spaakcr 4 10S Cairngorm 3 100 1908 Dandelion 4 Sewell 120 Inquisitor 3 112 Klamesha 4 Ill 1907 Vails 3 IJeckman 99 Dr Gardner 4 113 Sir Lynnewd6105 190 Beaucpap 3McCahey 92 Marathon 4 99 R Tourist 3 112 li Field Mottie43JvjMcCahey 93 Agq itMlf yiXit 104 Beaticoup 4 95 95JI24 igttrsirjj Johnson 5VvPowtr8 JI24 StaniefFay 5 104 Danoscara 6 105 1913 Labors 5 Borel 112 Light 0 M Life 4 107 Guy Flsher7106 1914 Tartar 4 W W Taylor 101 His Majesty 4 113 Pch Bowl 3 112 1915 Star Jasmine GE Martin 105 Montresor 5 107 Hanson 3 98 1916 Pennant 5 J Hotter 127 Stromboll 5 125 Ed Crump 4120 1917 Old Rosebud GG Molesworth 133 Capra 5 104 Roamer 6 127 1918 Sun Briar 3 W Knapp KnappNo 113 Midway 4 105 Motor Cop 3115 No racing to 1911 and 1912
