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Take Wing Makes First 1947 Start Troutt Veteran and Eight Others Go in Blue Delight Handicap at Cicero Today HAWTHORNE, Cicero, 111., May 20. The Blue Delight Handicap and the Holly Leaves Purse are featured on the well-balanced program arranged for presentation tomorrow at this popular West Side course. The Blue Delight is for three-year-olds and upward, to meet at six furlongs, while fillies and mares four years old and upward, are to clash at a similar distance in the Holly Leaves. Several other better-than-average contests are listed for decision on the midweek card, and present overhead conditions point to a fast track for the sport. Take Wing, Mrs. Clyde Troutts aged but useful gelded son of Chicle and Eagle Flight, is the highweight of the nine in the Blue Delight probable starting band and he will answer the bugle under a 115-pound burden. Take Wing, winner of four major engagements during his 1946 campaign, earned 5,325 last year, and he will make his 1947 seasonal debut in tomorrows sprint. Walter W. Jones will be represented in the Blue Delight by the quick Bull Play, a five-year-old son of Bull Lea and Day Play. Bull Play, soundly beaten in the Crete Handicap, is to shoulder 110 pounds in tomorrows twin headliner, and he will have the saddle services of Steve Brooks, who recently arrived from Kentucky after leading the riders at the Keeneland and Churchill Downs meetings. Bull Play won the 1946 renewals of the Ben Ali and the Churchill Downs handicaps, but has not accounted for a stake thus far in his 1947 campaign. Bull Plays best effort this year was at Keeneland, where he defeated Jack S. L., Ariel Ace and Many Lands, among others, in a six-furlongs allowance race while carrying 120 pounds and stepping the distance in 1:11 The Jones star also finished second to George Gains in a six-furlong overnight handicap at Louisville, beaten two lengths over the Downs slow strip in a race run in 1:12. Others Entered Completing the field for the Blue Delight are Blank and Scherers Achance, 108; Anthony Ferraras Wow, 109, and Builder, 103; Mrs. Emil Denemarks Chesty, 108, and Fire Dust, 103; and Mrs. G. H. Emicks Handy Lad, assigned 104 pounds. Of this latter group, Achance has displayed occasional flashes of class, Builder has trained smartly, Sandslinger is improving, and Wow visited the winners circle at the recent Sportsmans Park meeting. The Holly Leaves should develop into a keenly-contested event as the six entrants for the dash appear evenly matched. Under the conditions of the sprint, D. C. Wil-helms Bubbling Easy is topweight, under 119 pounds, and her record is quite impressive. Winner of two races at Oaklawn Park and another pair at Sportsmans Park, Bubbling Easy is in top shape and she may be the one to whip. Woolf ord Farms Enchanting and Devastating are rated dangerous in the Holly Leaves, while Dixianas Chapel Bells, who raced impressively during her New Orleans winter campaign, also is rated with the leaders. Mrs. Caterina Valentis speedy Mrs. Valenti is favorably weighted and William H. Bishops May Fly could upset some of the better-regarded starters should she turn in one of her better efforts.
