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! Him I I Ml 1 Diana Draws Valadium, Canadiana WILLIAM POST Sends out the top-weighted Valadium in the Diana at the Saratoga course today. Both Coming Off Winning Efforts Former Expected to Favor Nine Furlongs Better Than Rival; Five Others Also Go By BOB HORWOOD Staff Correspondent SARATOGA, Saratoga Springs, N. Y., Aug. 18. Seven fillies and mares meet at a mile and a furlong in the fifteenth running of the 5,000 Diana Handicap here at the Spa tomorrow. In its comparatively brief history, the Diana has been won by such memorable distaff runners as Piquet dam of Capot, Rosetown, Pomay-ya, Bonnet Ann, Whirlabout and Carolyn A., who were also good producers, and the brilliant Miss Grillo. Jim Fitzsimmons saddled the last two winners in Belair Studs Vulcania and Ogden Phipps Busan-da and will send out Sabette for Belair tomorrow. While this stretch-running daughter of Alsab will have some support, considerably more is expected to go to Harry LaMontagnes Valadium, 122; E. P. Taylors Canadiana, 115, and Alfred G. Vanderbilts Home-Made, 112. Valadium and Canadiana both come from winning races at this track and the first-named is expected to appreciate the nine furlongs, at least the ninth of them, a bit more than the invader from Toronto. Valadium has showed that she can go a reasonable distance without too much trouble, while the front-running Canadiana tired badly in the Gazelle Stakes at Aqueduct and the Cleopatra Handicap at Arlington Park before winning the seven-furlong Test Stakes here. Hellinger on Topweight George Hettinger, who fits her well, will be astride Valadium, while Dave Gorman will again pilot Canadiana. Home-Made, who will be ridden by Conn McCreary, led Canadiana when both were beaten by Arab Actress at Arlington, finished second to the Taylor miss in the Test, making a threatening bid at the eighth pole, then hanging in the final yards. Isidor Biebers Nothirdchance, who gets in with 111 pounds and will have the services of Ted Atkinson, also won her last start here at the Spa. This mare showed considerable class as a three-year-old, but has been suffering from shin trouble until quite recently. The Blue Swords mare is now going soundly -and racing kindly and i could be very dangerous at the weights. The Diana field is completed by F. Eugene Dixon, Jr.s Dinewisely, 105, and C. V. Whitneys Ming Yellow, 111. Both mares finished behind Nothirdchance last out, with Ming Yellow closing with a belated rush from last place, while Dine-wisely ran her usual even race, which was not quite good enough. Hedley Woodhouse will be on Ming Yellow, while Nick Wall will pilot Dinewisely. Jess Higley will guide Sabette, who seems much like Dinewisely, in that she often gets part of the purse regardless of the quality of the company, but rarely wins. The Diana will be the sixth race and is followed by the ,500 Lake Placid Handicap, which aptly illustrates why it is difficult to earn any money with the middle-grade horses. This six-furlong dash has attracted a field headed by Brookfield Farms Isasmoothie and including such others worth 0,000 or more as Hilarious and Open Show, but is worth little more to the winner than the claiming sprint that-is fourth on the program.
