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Validon Makes Good at Sportsmans JFourth Try at Meet Results in Victory Bobtag Splits Challedon Stallion and Stablemate, Next Pagej in Sprint Race SPORTSMANS PARK, Cicero, HI., May 11. — After having been in the money on five consecutive appearances but having failed to win, the five-year-old Validon finally shook off the jinx when he scored in the sixth and feature race here today. The distance was six and one-half furlongs, and the son of Challedon, racing for B. H. Wise and B. W. Simpson, won by two and one-half lengths from Bobtag, an outsider, with Next Page, a stablemate of the winner, finishing third. The entry was favored and paid .20. Tommy Barrow rode Validon. The speedy but faint-hearted Nival went out to make the pace, closely followed by first Warless and then English Lad, and the latter took command on the stretch turn. Then Validon, who had improved his position while saving ground, came to the inside of English Lad at midstretch and was in command. Validon, once on the head end, drew away with but little urging from jockey Barrow while his stable-mate, Next Page, was gaining on Bobtag for second place. Immediately following the running of the feature the worst storm of the season hit the track. Rain and hail pelted down and turned the racing strip to the condition in which it started out the day— muddy. The track had been heavy for three races. The attendance was 10,426.and the weather prior to the downpour was warm and humid. Gypsy Fiddle Takes Opener The opening race attracted just about as . poor a band as had gone postward at the meeting, and Gypsy Fiddle, a neglected seven-year-old mare, was the winner to pay 03.00, Ridden by Palmer Domenico, Gypsy Fiddle was close to the favored Con-sus to the stretch and then went to the front to win under mild urging. The Daily Double paid ,072.00 when Atascosa took the second. Making his fourth start of the session the black horse, ridden by J. Ralph Adams, seemed to like the going and beat out Karen Athene, a supposed good thing who just arrived from Arizona. Touch of Or, the favorite, was a well-beaten third. Jockey Adams had his second winner of the day in the -fifth race. He was aboard Silver Robby, and that four-year-old led all the way. Legatee was the favorite but his rider made the mistake of trying to go around a number of horses on the first turn and he lost much ground and was never a contender. Our Henr/, the public choice, gladdened the hearts of the favorite players in the fourth race when he won by 10. lengths, w,ith jockey Howard-Craig taking him in hand near the finish. Ocean Hop, the second horse, was 12 lengths in advance of the others coming to the wire. In winning this race, jockey Craig went into a tie with Tony Skoronski for the riding honors here — 18 apiece. Skoronski has been out of action, for over a week. The two-year-old filly, . Taddy, earned her second straight purse here when she beat nine other juveniles in the third. With Melvin Duhon in the saddle the miss was always in command.
