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Wreck Master Best Colt in Christiana Odds-On Palatine Juvenile Shows Way to Kinda Smart Before 25,000 at Delaware DELAWARE PARK, Stanton, Del., June 19. — Joining the select group of juvenile stakes winners, Palatine Stables Wreck Master this afternoon accounted for the 17th running of the Christiana Stakes be-, fore another large -week end gathering of approximately 25,000 fans. His margin of success was three-quarters of a length after a stirring stretch battle with Ella K. Brysons Kinda Smart. In third position, two and one-half lengths farther back came Mrs. Royal Firman, Jr.s Early Warning. Purchased as a yearling for the comparatively small sum of ,000, the chestnut son of Bolero and Lady Boswell sent his seasonal earnings to 0,650 with the 1,100 winners share of todays purse. His five-furlong time of :58% was the fraction off Beaugays track standard and three-fifths slower than the record for the race. Willie Hartack, who returned for the day to accept the mount on Frank Rosens charge, was accomplishing his 15 victory of the meeting. Lowered Laurels Track Mark Wreck Master first asserted himself in Maryland this spring, where he lowered Laurels four-and-a-half furlong track mark to. :52% and came back 10 days later to top two-fifths of a second more off that, standard. Todays triumph was his fourth in seven starts and he was an odds-on choice at .40. Trainer J. Bowes Bond will now point the speedy youngster for the impending Dover Stakes, to be renewed a week from Wednesday. Starter George Palmer dispatched the field in excellent alignment and, though called in last position, Wreck Master was no more than a neck off the top horse. He raced with the leaders around the turn as Kinda Smart, favored by the rail position, held a narrow lead over Early Warning. The three of them raced in that order into the stretch where Early Warning showed signs of wear and dropped from between the other two. Wreck Master then forged to the front and seemed destined for a clever accounting. Hartack went to work on Wreck Master in the closing yards and the colt showed immediate response, evidently relishing a good duel. The efforts of Wreck Master and Hartack bore fruit in the late strides and the team was again drawing away, though unable to get clear at the wire. Early Warning was no match for the top two through the final three-sixteenths of a mile and had all he could do to outfinish Rokeby Stables Cup Man and Mrs. Walter M. Jeffords Momus, who raced as-a team for almost the entire distance and did little more than deter each other. Behind Momus there was a gap of four lengths back to Maine Chance Farms Model Ace, who was making his first start since Florida. Clifford Mooers Parr was the only other starter. Walter M. Jeffords Tahiti, who won the 1952 running of the Dover, won his first race since that time when he took honors in the six -furlong fourth race, covering the distance in a splendid~l:10%. The grand-looking son of Polynesian led throughout under Norman Cox and returned .20 while coasting home two and one-half lengths in the van. Mrs. Samuel M. Pis-torios Singing Beauty was second over Al-, bert P. Mergardts Tamale.
