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Winter Wheat Sets Delaware Mark Jones Colorbearer Speeds Th ree-Quarters in 1:1 OVand Easily Defeats Superb Donna To Remain Unbeaten in Only Three Appearances This Year DELAWARE PARK, Stanton, Del., June 1. — Turning in her third consecutive sterling effort, and retaining an unbeaten record this season, Wliliam G. Jones Winter Wheat this afternoon established a new six furlongs track standard of 1:10.% in accounting for the Fairy Chant Purse, fourth race on the program. The- six-year-old Heliopolis mare, in shaving one-fifth of a second off the record held jointly by Polynesian, Quarter Moon and Ideal Gift, saved ground while racing Rengas Stables Superb Donna into defeat, then won easily over that mare by two lengths. Superb Donna held on gamely to be a neck better than Mrs. O. L. Ny-bergs Irisen, while Mrs. James V. Stewarts Singing Doll was fourth and last in the field. The winner, an odds-on choice with the crowd of approximately 9,000 fans, paid .70 and her victory enabled jockey Bobby Martin to take a temporary lead for honors in his division, having four victories to his credit. New Castle Prospect Winter Wheat, always a pretty shifty mare, has on occasions, carried her sizzling speed over a distance of ground. Considering her present form, she could well become a prominent factor for honors in the 5,000 New Castle Handicap, for which she has been made eligible. The victory of Winter Wheat was impressive, and the race also proved the worth of Superb Donna, who was claimed in Maryland for 2,000. Since her last race on May 11, she has been bred, being the first mare sent to the court of Helen L. Sagners Saggy, the only horse to earn a decision over Citation during the Calumet colts three-year-old season. Mrs. S. S. Zells Desert Ruler and A. E. Morris Ted M. took the jump on the rivals in the Montchanin Handicap series when they garnered 24 points each in winning the division of series No. 1 here this afternoon. Desert Ruler turned in a game effort while taking a nose decision from Brook-meade Stables Warship. Fred Vollmers In First was third. Ted M., shipped here especially for the occasion by Clarence Buxton, scored a front-running victory, drawing clear through the stretch to win by five lengths in 1:44%. Thomas W. Baker, Jr.s, Punchestown was second, a head before Sam E. Wilson, Jr.s, Bubble Gum, the choice. Greentree Stables Wine List, who prior to the running of the Derby Trial had been regarded as the equal to Capot, made his first start since the Derby in todays seventh race. The manner in which her won while scampering six furlongs in 1:10% would suggest that he may still have considerable to say in the three-year-old division, for his victory was an easy one by three lengths. With Jimmy Stout sitting still, the Questionnaire colt raced James Cox Bradys Third Ace into defeat and bounded away from that one through the stretch.
