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Award Winship Honors in Byway Purse After Sea Fan Is Set Back for Fouling Delaware Stewards Relegate* Bohemia Stable Miss to Last Place; Cornwall Victorious By PALMER HEAGERTY Staff Correspondent DELAWARE PARK, Stanton, Del., June 14. — Mrs. Charles E. Nelsons Winship was elevated into top position in this afternoons featured Byway Purse, following the disqualification of Bohemia. Stables Sea Fan, whose number was taken down for having swerved to the inside during the final test. The re-arranged placing found Mrs. Esther duPont Weirs Satin. Slipper vsecond and Palatine Stables Quiz Song third, with Sea Fan relegated to last position. The racing surface remained muddy from rains of yesterday and last night but approximately 11,500 fans turned out for the program. Sea Fans time in the feature was l:13y5 for the six furlongs. Winship, ridden by Walter Mann, paid .70 as one* of four well-played horses in the dash. Sea Fan, ridden by Larney Hansman, displayed her usual high turn of early speed and established a five-length lead in the run along the backstretch. She continued to roll on her merry way rounding the bend and turned into the home lane with a four-length lead over Winship, who was just commencing her rally. . % Winships rider elected to take the.inner course during the drive and had ample room for his mount, as well as several other horses, as the furlong pole was reached. She continued her charge along the/ rail but it remained doubtful as to whether or, not she possessed sufficient speed to wear down Sea Fan. In the vicinity of the sixteenth pole, Sea, Fan drifted in as her rider continued to urge her;. She appeared to .have bothered Winship to some extent, but the trouble encountered by the Nelson filly seemed overemphasized by Mann, who took up sharply and was beaten two lengths. The others failed to enter serious contention and Satin Slipper, who crossed the" line in third position, was beaten three and one-half lengths by Winship, with Quiz Song an additional neck behind. The favorite, Gorgeous Reded, was never a factor. Elmendorfs Cornwall, a stakes-winning two-year-old during 1949, won his first race in nine starts since that season when he accounted for the six-furlong fourth event in a four-way photo finish. The Some Chance colt, ably handled by Frank Bone, scored by a head over L. W- Jennings Little Harp, who nosed out D. G. Neumans Curtain Time. Elsmar Stables Prince Cole was beaten another half length. Cornwall was a close second choice to Little Harp and paid .80 after taking the short route home over the muddy track to be timed in 1:14%.
