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, : : 1 Helfast Defeats Royal Jester In Delaware Turf Course Test Prevails by Two and Half Lengths in Bewitch Purse Over Mile and Sixteenth By CHARLES IIATTON DELAWARE PARK, Stanton, Del., June 4. Leon Santores rangy Helfast, ridden with assurance by apprentice Edward Cape, skirted the hedges on the turn and outfin-ished Baylor Hickmans Royal Jes.ter by two and one-half lengths for an enormously popular success in the mile and a sixteenth of the Bewitch, turf course feature, of a gloomy afternoons sport. At the line, Royal Jester was far more preoccupied with beating the pacemaking Celt, Mrs. Vernon Cardys Manaos, a nose for the place than with downing Helfast. An interval of three parts of a length and Spin was fourth of a light field of six assembled for this event. There was a crowd of 11,304 more or less prejudiced witnesses to Helfasts tally, his second in successive engagements, and he returned .20 for in the tote. . Though claiming the apprentice allowance, the six-year-old Heliopolis stallion was top-weight under 117 pounds, and he was timed the distance in l-:44 on a surface described as hard. This was incidentally the fourth mile and one-sixteenth grass race of the meeting, all run in times swifter than the old record of 1:44, sAkbar Khan carving a full two seconds from that clocking the first day. "Favorites Encounter Trouble Helfast was winning his third purse in an industrious campaign that has extended over 16 starts to the writing, and he was only the second ofthe days first seven favorites to report punctually for their backers. The Bewitch was, of course, named for Calumet Farms leading money-winning racemare of all time. In the course of her career, she compiled 62,605 and won- 20 of 55 races. She is ranked ninth in Delaware Parks poll of the 10 leading American race mares. The Bewitch began at the top of the stretch, and with the gray Chit Chat outbreaking the others a few strides. But he was almost immediately joined by Manaos, who passed him rounding the turn into the backfield and opened up about two lengths. Chit Chat was closely accompanied on the outside by Royal Jester running the far lane, and Cape always had the eventual winner well placed, free of possible trouble and. within striking distance. Around the last turn, Manaos still led by a length, but Helfast now was allowed to move, and he was almost literally tearing down the hedges as he saved ground while making his advance on the inside. Manaos, who carries his head rather higher than a critical horseman might like, tried to repel the Santore stallion, but he could offer no appreciable resistance. Helfast moved on past to a daylight lead in the last sixteenth, with Cape only handriding him to keep him at his task. In the final yards, Royal Jester outstayed Manaos by the meiest nose for the place, the latter beginning to fade fast at the line. Chit Chat had gladly called it a day early in the stretch run and the others were never really in the hunt.
