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If Santa Anita has been a bonanza for its backers, it has been even more spectacularly profitable, in the past week, for a young race horse owner whose stable has never before ranked high on the list of U. S. money-winners. A few days before Rosemont won the Handicap, William du Pont's Fairy Hill won the third Santa Anita Derby, one of the second richest U. S. races, on Washington's Birthday, for which the stake was $62,000 (TIME, March 1). It was the first time one owner had won both of Santa Anita's major races. In addition, just a week before the Santa Anita Handicap, Rosemont had won the San Antonio Handicap (on the Santa Anita track), for which his reward was $6,825. Owner du Pont, 42, is President of Wilmington Trust Co., one of the backers of Wilmington's new $1,500,000 Delaware Park race track which will open next June. His sister, Mariona du Pont Somerville Scott, is married to Cinemactor Randolph Scott. She watched five-year-old Rosemont climax the most profitable week ($144,050) any owner ever had in U. S. turf history. Her brother was at home "on business."