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Eddie Eddie Sue Sue Furnishes Furnishes Artful Artful Upset; Upset; Grecian Grecian Queen Queen Whips Whips Canadiana Canadiana Lilly Volenti After Third Straight Win Fleet Seven-Yea r-Old Faces McGrathiana-Cajac Duo and Six Others at Detroit Course By DON FAIR Staff Correspondent DETROIT RACE COURSE, Livonia, Mich., June 24. — Lilly Valenti, fleet seven-year-old Sun Again-sired mare, who races for the New Orleans turfman, Steve Valenti, will attempt to increase her victory skein here tomorrow afternoon when she meets eight other speedy sprintes in the Lake Michigan Purse. Lilly Valenti, recent winner of the Rose Leaves Stakes and also successful in the Burlingame Purse here, chalked up two other triumphs at the Fair Grounds before her shipment from the Crescent City to the local course. Lilly Valenti gets in the six-furlong Lake Michigan favorably weighted at 114 pounds, which burden is three pounds heavier than what she shouldered in the Rose Leaves. The Valenti mare, f orwardly placed from the,, start of the filly-and-mare fixture last week end, whirled tha, three-quarters mile in 1:10% under jockey Robert Lee Baird, presently leading reinsman here and engaged to guide Lilly Valenti again tomorrow. Faces Formidable Opposition While the New Orleans-owned speedster certainly rates a royal chance for her third straight set of brackets, Lilly Valentis opposition undoubtedly will prove tougher than the fillies and mares she encountered in her Rose Leaves trip. Major competition for her probably will be furnished by the Marion H. VanBerg pair, McGrathiana, Continued on Page Forty-Four Lilly Valenti Striving For Third Score in Row Speedy Valenti Mare Vies With v McGrathiana-Cajac Entry Today Continued from Page One 117, and the quick Foray Array-sired geld-ing,vCajac, 119 pounds. McGrathiana, a four-year-old gelded son of Halcyon Gift and Gay Challa, is a double winner at the present Detroit meeting. The VanBerg sprinter trimmed a fast field here June 13, then came back with a smashing victory in the three-quarters mile Palmer Park Purse, stepping along in 1:10%. McGrathianas stablemate, Cajac, was a sharp second in the Alger Memorial behind Second Avenue, then defeated Big Cat, Starboard Stables Bated Breath, Coffee Money, Big Money and other high-class racers in the six-furlong Ann Arbor Purse, completing the trip in a scintillating 1:10% under a steadying 119 pounds impost. Jockey Lois Cook, who began the Wednesday program a single winning mount behind jockey Baird, will Tiandle one of the VanBerg entrants in the Lake Michigan Purse. Bated Breath defeated Carl Grahams Air Flight in the three-quarters mile Belle Isle Purse June 11, while Mad Hare was third in the dash, and Lilly Valenti no better than fourth. Bated Breath gets in the Lake Michigan at 109 pounds, with the apprentice allowance claimed, while Air Flight must carry 119 pounds. Apprentice Bobby Miller will be astride Bated Breath and Eldon Nelson is engaged for Air Flight. Completing the overnight field for the Lake Michigan Purse will be Mrs. E. F. Rimms hnmphrpd RrmnVv 111* .Torr-ir Lynchs Our Challenge, 117; H. J. Sha-ways Sedgeview, 119, and H. W. Shaffers Avacado, 106 pounds. Sedgeview will be ridden by Mike Basile, Howard Craig is to pilot Avacado, and apprentice Joe LaMon-tagne drew the mount on .Spunky. Avacado, a stakes winner during her 1952 campaign, passed an engagement in the Rose Leaves to start in the Thursday headliner. Clear weather and a fast track greeted a crowd of over 10,000 this pleasant afternoon for the splendid mid-week program. Edwin K. Thomas Strawberrylane, ridden by Lois Cook, scored a length and one-half decision in the five-furlong initial event, trimming 11 other ordinary two-year-olds. Roy C. Gillems Jay Cee, with apprentice Joe LaMontagne at the reins, drove to a two-length verdict in the three-quarters mile second, which matched an even dozen three-year-old platers. Strawberrylane, 33 to 10 straight and, Jay Cee, held at 10y2 to 1, were good for a 1.60 Daily Double pay-off. Best supporting race on the card is the mile and one-sixteenth fifth, which matches seven useful middle distance performers.
