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Hill Hill Gail Gail Hawthorne Hawthorne Starter Starter Today; Today; Nine Nine Vie Vie in in Top Top Flight Flight at at Belmont Belmont Valadium Is Triple Winner at Meeting LaMontagneMareFacesTask Of Leading Maria, Devilkin, LaCorredora to Wire Today By BOB HORWOOD Staff Correspondent BELMONT PARK, Elmont, L. I., N. Y., June 16. — The Belmont Park spring meeting comes to a close tomorrow with the 14th running of the 5,000 Top Flight Handicap for fillies and mares at a mile and one-sixteenth. The sport will continue at beautiful Belmont for another two days, however, this session being followed by the annual two-day stand of the United Hunts, with Aqueduct opening the Queens County Jockey Club meeting on Saturday. Harry LaMontagnes Valadium, who has won her last three starts at this meeting, and Mrs. John W. Hanes Devilkin, who has been unable to win the same number of starts here, are equal topweights with 122 pounds. Bill Boland will ride Valadium, while Devilkin will have the services of Eddie Arcaro. Valadium has beaten most of those she faces tomorrow, though under more favorable weight conditions. She beat Devilkin a head at a flat mile when receiving four pounds on May 25 and Mrs. Hanes filly finished third to Gay Grecque and Nilufer in a sprintnext out. Named for Famous Whitney Mare The others in the Top Flight, which is named for C. V. Whitneys grand race mare and disappointing producer of slightly more than 20 years ago, are Marian W. OConnors La Corredora, 120; Woodvale Farms Marta, 119; Hal Price Headleys Aesthete, 113; Meyer J. Kaplans Sunshine .Nell, 112;. Col. Isidore Biebers Nothird-chance and King Ranchs Islay Mist, 109 each, and George D. Wideners No Score, 107 pounds. La Corredora comes from a disappoint- Continued on Page Thirty-Nine Hill Gail, Mimi Mine Entered at Hawthorne Kentucky Derby Winner Vies With Five Sprinters in Wauconda Purse Continued from Page One taken over by his stablemate, Mark-Ye-Well. The skill and patience of Ben Jones brought Hill Gail back to the races a fit horse this spring. If he was a bit short for the Phoenix Handicap it need hardly be said he needed that alibi, as he was beaten the narrowest of margins by a good five-year-old to whom he was giving 10 pounds while carrying 128 himself. Douglas Dodson is scheduled to ride Hill Gail.v Among the six other fillies whom Miami Mine meets in the ,500 Marica Purse is one who beat her at their last meeting here on May 27. This one is Arab Actress, owned by Mrs. H. J. Damm of Indianapolis. The race, the Betty Derr Purse, was Mimi Mines first start of the year since winning four of her six outings last season, including Hawthornes Durazna Stakes. Making her first start since finishing third to Bubbley and Cerise Reine in the Kentucky Oaks on May 1, and her third of the current year, Arab Actress won the Betty Derr Purse by seven lengths over Mimi Mine. The later Memphis-owned filly of Mrs. Herbert Herff indicated here Monday that she is ready for her best effort when she stepped five furlongs in near track record time— : 59%. Opposing Mimi Mine and Arab Actress for the Marcia Purse are Fairway Farms Good Call, D. W. Landys Fiesta Way, R. P. OBriens Pussy Cat, Fred W. Hoopers Eddie Sue, Emil Denemarks Just Us Girls, the latter winner of her two latest starts at this meeting, where Good Call and Pussy Cat also won.
