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Carroll Bierman Stars in Saddle Boots Home Four Winners On Suffolk Downs Card, Including Valdina Alpha BOSTON, Mass., May 13. — Carroll Bierman, who rode here as an apprentice rider but hadnt displayed his talent for several seasons, except in stake events, cut loose with a brilliant display of riding skill to steal the show as the Suffolk Downs meeting went into its third day of the 60-day session. The Centralia, 111., reinsman received credit for four winners in the first six races and all but one carried the maroon and white silks of the Valdina Farms stable of Emerson F. Woodward. Bierman won the opening race on Valdina Flare, the second on Millsdale Stables Zacharias and the fifth, the Fenway Purse, on Valdina Alpha. He also received credit for another winner when he finished second to Bayard Tuckerman, Jr.s Bus Girl on Valdina Luster in the third and won his claim of foul when the Tuckerman representative was disqualified. Bierman, however, turned in his best riding performance in making a winner of Valdina Alpha, the odds-on favorite in the Fenway Purse. Going down the back-stretch and around the turn, the bay son of Osculator never found racing room as Mixer and Jacks Girl set the pace, but Bierman bided his time while rating his mount in reserve. At the quarter pole, he finally was able to take his mount off the pace and he made his move down the outside through the stretch. The Osculator colt picked up Jacks Girl at the furlong pole and went on to win by two lengths without being subjected to too much pressure. Valdina Alpha paid .40 in the mutuels and was timed in 1:132,5. The Texas-bred colt was accounting for his second victory of the year. Closest to the winner was Jacks Girl. Six lengths back of that Jack High filly, was S. W. Shapoffs Mixer, the early pacesetter, who tired to finish, third well in advance of Mort Stuarts All Free. Irresistible Is "Irresistible" R. W. Collins Irresistible, a three-year-old son of Whichone and Silken Sheen, who was beaten only a neck by Tripped in the. first start of his career at Narragan-sett, earned brackets ir the fourth race, a six-furlong test for maiden three-year-olds. Rated along in third place as J. R. Ma-combers Galafire set the pace, Irresistible went to the front at the three-eighths pole and finished with three and a quarter lengths to spare. The winner paid .20 for and was timed in 1:14%. Galafire wound up second, two lengths before J. L. Johnsons Loulang. The latter broke second, but dropped back to third and finished there. Carroll Bierman, who booted home both ends of the "Daily Double" when astride Valdina Flare and Zacharias in the first two events, and who finished second on Valdina Farms Valdina Luster, claimed foul against the winner, Bayard Tuckerman, Jr.s Bus Girl in the third race, a four and one-half furlongs dash for maiden two-year-olds. The judges placed the winner second and moved up the Valdina representative as Bierman claimed that Bus Girl fouled his mount in the stretch. The judges ruling in his favor gave him credit for his third victory of the day. Valdina Luster paid 0.20 in the mutuels. Agradel finished third before Epaway. Marcella K., the favorite, wound up fifth without any display of speed.
