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Sollure Registers First Victory of 1946 Season Even Money Choice Defeats Valdina Craft, Copywright SUFFOLK DOWNS, East Boston, Mass., June 11.— Off nicely and staying in stride, although well off the pace, H. G. Bedwells Sollure drove through the stretch to win the Exeter, ,500 feature at Suffolk Downs today. In scoring his first victory of the New England season Sollure also gave the form players a breather, since he was the first favorite in the first five races to enter the winners circle. Sollure was backed down to even money by the majority of the 15,904 enthusiasts at the local track and he won with a show of his old hard-hitting form as he moved up with Daniel Harringtons Copywright in the last half of the six-furlong dash. His winning time was 1:12, still below his normal races of the past, but the six-year-old Coleil Du Midi Stallion left no doubt as to his win. For a time it looked as if Mrs. D. B. Wiser s Brilliant Fly might make a runaway of the event, as the Brilliant gelding rushed to the front and had as much as five lengths as one point in the early running. Sollure was not hurried, uhile Copy wright, off well, moved into second position, with Sollure third. They began to close up on Brilliant Fly from the three-eighths pole and turning for home it looked as if Copywright, trained by L. G. Bedwell, might be the one to catch the pacemaker. At the sixteenth pole, however, the three were virtually together and Brilliant Fly was done. It seemed that Sollure would win, with Copywright second, but Donna Maria Farms Valdina Craft, with a late rush, moved into the place slot, with Copywright third and Brilliant Fly fourth.
