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► ■ The Pimpernel Wins Christiana By Seven Lengths at Delaware Favorite With Gathering of i 25,000 Coasts Last Furlong While Leading Pintor Home By PALMER HEAGERTY Staff Correspondent DELAWARE PARK, Stanton, Del., May 30. — Just as his sire had done seven yeafs ago, William Goadby Loews The Pimpernel, a speedy son of Payot, this afternoon came within one-fifth of a second of the Delaware Park five-furlong track record when he scampered the distance in :58y5 to account for the 14th running of the Christiana Stakes. With Warren Mehrtens allowing his mount to coast through the final furlong, The Pimpernel, who established a worlds record down the Widener chute in his recent victory, reported seven lengths in the van while picking up a purse of 1,225; In second position was Montpeliers Pintor, himself a Tecord-beater inhis only previous essay. Two lengths farther back came William Ziegler, Jr.s, Battle Fury, followed by Mrs. Zelda Cohens, War Age. The Pimpernel was the favorite over Pintor in the two-horse betting affair and paid .70. Only briefly was a member of the field able to stay with The Pimpernel, and that was War Age. The Loew colt soon disposed of that one and was clear after three-sixteenths of a mile, as War Age was eased back when the leader moved over. Pintor was third at this point and in a threatening position. Top Trio Dominates Running The. top trio dominated the running to midway of the turn, where it became apparent that it was to be a one-horse affair. The Pimpernel, an ,600 yearling acquisition, drew clear steadily, increasing his advantage to three lengths at the quarter pole and then four lengths with but a furlong to go. ThereafterQit was merely a matter of how great his margin would be at the end. _The holiday turnout was a tremendous one, being estimated at 25,000 pleasure-seekers, and certainly well above last years crowd of 22,575. The handle, too, was rolling along ahead of the 1950 figures and seemed likely to go in the neighborhood of ,200,000, as compared with last years 40,095. Mrs. Ellsworth H. Augustus Loran accounted for the first in a series of five Montchanin Handicaps, when she raced a mile and a sixteenth in 1:45% in the sixth race. The Count Fleet filly, under 111 pounds and Mel Peterson, came from just off the pace and paid 0.80 while outfin-ishing Victory Stables Apachico and Dion K. Kerr, Jr.s Broken Lens. The race was a well contested one and it seems likely that many of the starters will be back next week for the mile and a furlong edition of the Montchanin. Frank E. James Changeling, a double ■ winner prior to finishing second to Pintor : in track record time at Pimlico, resumed : her winning ways as the .00 favorite in the third race. The juvenile Vincentive filly led from just after the start and lasted by a neck over William Goadby Loews Bolo Punch, with Cedar Farms Rusty just a . length farther back. Changeling was nicely : handled by Charley Givens and completed ; the five-furlong dash in 1:00, flat. With only 15 Daily Double machines available to dispense tickets, there was considerable crowding and milling about the windows, with the result that only ! 9,102 was handled in the pool, as com- , pared to 0,714 in the first race and 24,-383 in the second event. The pay-off on i William G. Jones Hazard Oaks and C. B. , Fischbachs Question Eight, a pair of out- siders, was 82.00. ] J. D. BYERS— Trainer of The Pimpernel.
