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i Fancy Flyer and Four Others Seek Isle Royale at Detroit t~ j : | ] j , I , ; ! : ■ | i 1 : 1 1 I ] 1 i i i I 2 1 j j ■ : ; ! J Carl Graham Six-Year-Old Out to Prove Repeater as He Meets Suffki at Mile DETROIT, Mich., June 23.— Carl Grahams Fancy Flyer, good stakes-winning six-year-old stallion, is to head a field of five useful performers slated to clash here Monday in the one mile Isle Royale Purse. The Graham star, a son of Sky Raider and Bellitas Babe, is the early choice for the feature and he is to shoulder equal top weight of 114 pounds with A. and R. Craigs Suffkiunder the allowance conditions. Dar-rell Madden, leading rider at the current Livonia course meeting, is to guide Fancy Flyer in the Isle Royale. Named to oppose Fancy Flyer and Suffki in the eight furlongs test are White and Thomas stakes -winning Our Request, 104 pounds with the apprentice allowance: P. L. Grissoms Ida C, 109, and Henry Forrests Ferro Fox, 104 pounds, also entered with the claim for the apprentice allowance. Tommy Barrow, one of the better journeymen reinsmen in the Motor City this season, drew the saddle assignment on Suffki, young Sherman Armstrong is to pilot Our Request, and Alfred Popara, contract rider for the Grissom establishment, will, of course, handle Ida C. Gerald Champagne, one of the best looking lightweights to appear in the Motor City in several years, is engaged for Ferro Fox. Won Hamtramck Purse Fancy Flyer, victor June 16 in the mile and one-sixteenth Hamtramck Purse, defeated Kings Hope, Our Request, Storm Ridden, Bee Lee Tee, and Scotch Bim in that middle distance event. Previous to that conquest, the Graham speedster bowed to Kings Hope in the Michigan Mile and t " he was third to Bully Boy and Bee Lee Tee June 2 in the Sault Ste. Marie Purse. Dur- . ing his 1950 campaign, Fancy Flyer earned | major honors in the Southland Handicap, Michigan Mile, and the Governors Handicap. In the latter event, he established a nine furlongs track record over the local strip in a clever 1:49%. Although Our Request was defeated in the Hamtramck, the 1949 Rose Leaves Stakes victress gave a sharp performance j j and she is expected to improve off the j : i effort. The five-year-old daughter of Re- j c quested and Inspiration, partial to an "off" t track, was good enough last year to visit T the winners circle on five occasions and she earned 0,620. Perhaps her outstanding achievement was a triumph in the one r mile Falls City Handicap at Churchill 1 1 Downs, in which mile stakes she defeated I Brown Hotel Stables Miss Highbrow, Dixi- 1 j anas Heres Hoping, and Mrs. Charles W. I t Jones Lady Libby. c Strong Finisher t Suffki, a gelded son of Suffern and j Pekaki, is the "dark horse" in the Isle r Royale Purse field. Winner of five of his -] 16 engagements last season, the Craig racer is one of the strongest finishers to show at the local course and he is quite capable of handling his Monday burden. Suffkis best performance at the Detroit track was ! c v his dead heat with Peter A. Markeys Baby c Comet in the three-quarters mile Zenith j Purse on June 8. Such quick sprinters as » Donke Serenade, Dixie Flyer, Countess e Molly, and Yoicks followed the deadlocked j leaders to the wire in the sprint. t The fifth race, six furlongs for three- year-olds and older, drew a half dozen ■= speedy entrants and shapes up as the best supporting number on the Monday card. Steve Chris Bolaris, conqueror of a shifty c band of sprinters June 16. is to try for a + repeat victory under jockey Barrow. The 3 Canadian invader will have his work cut * i out for him in meeting such rivals as Ivan „ D. Peats Well Met, who has worked sen- sationally since arriving from Florida : Robert L. Lancasters Raven Reward, Henry Forrests Cotton Joe, James Paddocks Al- £ phara, and Greenacres Stock Farms c Evelyn L., scheduled to make her local b seasonal debut in the dash. r Four-year-olds and older are to meet n in the mile and one-sixteenth opener, the second and fourth races at six furlongs and *, the seventh and eighth events, at one mile and one mile and 70 yards, respectively, j, in Two-year-olds will match strides in five furlongs third. f.
