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VALDINA TRIUMPHANT Continued from first page. Seeker charged up on the outside to be a driving winner. Stolen Color retired from the pacemaking task after a quarter and then the heavily backed Dark Seeker and Harem Queen engaged each other in a duel that finally was settled in the last seventy yards when the Scoville veteran, ridden by Leon Haas, asserted her superiority. Her winning margin was three-quarters of a length. Harem Queen might have been closer to the winner and might even have won the race, but for swerving repeatedly during the running. Julia Grant, well up from the start, took third honors, a length and a half behind the runner-up, while Goodbye Blues was fourth. Eleven competed. SOUTH IN SFOTLIGIIT. South rode his second winner when L. M. Seversons Margaret G. took the fourth, a sprint of seven furlongs engaging eight platers from the lowest bracket. It was the fillys second straight victory, her previous one having been the first of her career. Auriferous was second, Tobacco third and Moretide, a second choice to the winner, next. Margaret G., bearing in badly, took command when the leaders bore out on the stretch turn and then continued to draw away until at the end .she was four lengths to the good. Auriferous, outrun for a half mile, moved up on the outside thereafter and swinging extremely wide into the stretch, finished with fine speed to be second, a length and a half before Tobacco. Exchange Club, which set the early pace, bore out badly on the stretch turn and took Registerite with him to eliminate them both. Taking the lead before leaving the chute, J. W. Parrishs Entree showed the way for the remainder of the seven furlongs and was an easy winner of the fifth event, which, like the preceding number, was exclusively for three-year-olds. Bobby Dotter was astride the Rolled Stocking filly and although she raced wide after three-eighths she still scored by five lengths. Inflame, away fast, but later taken in hand, moved up in the stretch to be second another five lengths before Aptine, while Discriminate was fourth in the field of nine. Entree shared favoritism with Inflame. Shooting to the front on the clubhouse turn, Mrs. E. McCowns Barbara A., ridden by her son, Darrell McCown, led the rest of the way in the mile and a sixteenth seventh event to win by two lengths. Exponent was second and Boiling Point third, while the favorite, Baltimore Boy, finished last in the field of six. High Diver, which ran fourth, and Blackthorn were the other starters.
