Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-01
Sunshine Nell Gets
Top Weight Of rs
For 100000 Race
4 THE EVENING STAR
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STANTON, DEL, July Sum
shine Nell, heroine Of the Top
Flight Handicap and a triple
stakes winner last season. has
the honored top ranking in the
weights released today for the
100000 added New Castle
Handicap, worlds richest race
for flllies and mares which viii
climax the final program Of the
Delaware Park meeting next
Monday.
Meyer ]. Kaplan's 6-year-old
mare was assigned 126 pounds
for the mile-and-a-quarter clas-
sic. Next on Racing Secretary j.
Gilbert Haus' list are Grecian
Queen, Mrs. B. r. Witaker's 1853
winner Of the New Castle, and
Mrs. Marion w. O'Connor's
Washington-owned La Core
dora, bracketed at 124 pounds.
ia for Evening Out.
Heading the 3-year-old con-
tingent, as expected. is Mrs.
George D. Widener's 1858 juve-
nile queen, Evening Out, at ia.
Since the weight-for-age scale
for the distance in July places
3-year-olds at 116 pounds and
older distaff division racers at
1875, Mrs. Widener's star is being
conceded two pounds at the scale
by Sunshine Nell and is rated
even with Grecian Queen and La
Corredora. In Is previous New
Castle trimmings, 3-year-old has
won five times.
Darby Dan Farms veteran
Atalanta and Mrs. Ada L. Rice's
temporarily shelved Cerise RENE
both drew 122 pounds, followed
by Mrs. n. j. Damm's Arab
Actress at 121. Alberta Ranches
Irish-bred stakes winner, Blue
Butterfly, who is making a trans
continental fight from Cali
fornia tomorrow for the holiday
special here. is weighted at 119.
That's one pound above Alibhai
Lynn. while Home Made and
Lillal drew 116, one more than
Nothirdchance. Then come Eve
ming Out and Sunny Dale at ia.
In the 113-pound bracket are
the English route-going ace,
Kerkeb, Gainesboro Girl and
Spinning Top.
Field of Is Likely.
Foxcatcher Farms Delaware
Oaks winner, Parlo, and Philip
Godfrey's O,Alison, third to
Parlo in that 3-year-old fixture,
will carry liz. This is the same
weight assigned the now retired
Cherokee Rose as well as River
ina Fascinator, Emerdee, Queen
Hopeful and Miss jeanne. Wal
ter M. Jeffords' Open Sesame,
second in the Oaks, gets in at
Ill. This filly also was runner
up to Cherokee Rose in the
Coaching Club American Oaks. &
Parlo has a chance to become
the first 3-year-old to account
for the Delaware Oaks New
Castle double. Willie du Points
homebred ace faces b fnorI-
mental task. however; for a bril-
liant field of Is or more horses
Is in prospect. The weights, OF
course, will have much to do
with the size of the starting
lineup, with owners and trainers
now able to study the assign
ments and weigh their respective
chances.
Royal Note Wins Again.
Yesterdays Delaware Park fea-
ture, the $4,000 Dover Stakes
was won easily by the undefeated
Royal Note. who now has won
five straight victories at five diff
ferent tracks-Oaklawn, Keene-
land, Churchill Downs, Garden
State and Delaware.
The Wilton Stable colt, a son
of Spy Song, finished 212 lengths
ahead of Kinda Smart. with
Wreck Master another neck back
in third place. Royal Note. one
Of the top candidates for the 2
year-old championship. ran the
5la furlongs in 1:043s, only one
fifth of a second slower than
Pavot's track record, set in 1914
The winner was the 3-to-5 IA
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