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8 M. H. DIXON— Saddled Merry Risk for a surprise accounting in the Cape Hen-lopen Purse at Delaware Park. Merry Risk Gains Edge Over Chains" Noses Out Choice In Thrilling Finish * Owsley Mare Survives Foul £ Claim; War Relic Offspring | One-Two-Tfiree in Third -5 c DELAWARE PARK, Stanton, Del., June 11. — Staging a stirring head-and-head battle through the final three-eighth of a c mile, Mrs. Mariska Owsleys Merry Risk JJ! this afternoon triumphed by a nose over J3 Brookmead Stables favored Chains in the featured Cape Henlopen Purse, then was forced to withstand a claim of foUl lodged by her rivals rider. Five lengths behind ~ the top pair came Allan J. Wilsons Arthur _ Pilate, with Sylvester W. Labrot, Jr.s, Ar- k cave, fourth. Excellent attendance continued through vo todays program with approximately 11,000 i2 fans present as the races were conducted under clear skies and oyer a track which remained slow from torrential downpours over the week-end. Merry Risk, a five-year old Tintagel mare, was accounting for her second purse of the meeting and paid 1.80, after being timed in 1:47 % over ihe mile and a sixteenth distance. Raymond Adair rode the winner, while Joe Culmone was astride Chains. Culmones claim of foul was for alleged interference through the stretch. Race Lapped to Wire Chains raced just off the pace of Merry Risk through the early stages and joined that mare with a rush in the vicinity of the three-furlong pole. He was unable to dislodge his rival, however, and the two raced lappedfrom that point to the wire, with Merry Risk dropping her nose to the fore in the final stride. The race marked the second time in as many starts that Chains finished in the runner-up position here. Prior to this meeting he had not raced since 1949, during which campaign he won the Dixie Handicap. War Relic, who carried the silks of the late Samuel D. Riddle to many stirring triumphs and who has since done himself proud at stud, had three colts representing him in the five-furlong third race and they finished first, second and third. The winner was Mrs. Zelda Cohens War Age, a Dover eligible from the Glen Riddle mare, Ellendale. War Age was ridden by Antonio J. Fernandez and, as a .90 favorite, scampered the distance in-1:00% over the slow track. William G. Helis, Jr.s, East Bay was second, five and one-half lengths behind the winner and a length and a half before Brandywine Stables Warpath.
