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En Fleur On Top Again at Cicero Registers Fourth Straight At Sportsmans in Charging To Wire Before Whirlahead By J. J. MURPHY Staff Correspondent SPORTSMANS PARK, Cicero. 111., May 9. — En Fleur, a courageous four -year -old filly owned by John H. Nail, registered her fourth straight success of the meeting and her fifth in a row in winning the Native Dancer Handicap here this afternoon by three-quarters length. Displaying fine speed from the start and grim determination in the stretch. En Fleur beat the charging Whirlahead to the finish line by three parts of a length, with Etelka, a recent winner here, taking third money. En Fleur, the favorite, paid .60 and was ridden by the veteran Willie Morrissey. Owner Nail recently acquired En Fleur from John P. Cleary at private treaty. Jockey Morrissey rode a beautiful race on En Fleur. He had the daughter of Apache off well and sent her through an opening in the early stages to have her fighting it out with Abisok for the leadership passing the stand the first time around. Upon entering the backstretch En Fleur drew away while still not called upon for her best. The filly entered the home lane with a good advantage, but she was tiring under her 117 pounds and Morrissey was required to shove and boot in the closing stages as whirlahead was gaining. Prepping for Crete Handicap Following the seven furlong race that was run in 1:28, En Fleur went out an extra furlong in preparation for the Crete Handicap opening day feature at Lincoln Fields. Her time for the mile was l:42y5. Echo Rock was the disappointment of the race. He, too, had scored five times in succession and was second choice but could do no better than be fifth after having trailed most of the way. A crowd of 17,821 was present for todays Continued on Page Forty-Six En Fleur Scores Again In Sportsmans Feature Fourth Straight Accounting for John H. Nails Improving Filly Continued from Page One sport, and it was for the most part a shirt -sleeved crowd as the thermometer was registering in the 80s. The largest Daily Double figures of the season were posted after Late Breeze, one of the extreme outsiders, had won the opener and the fairly well played Cotton Bud had taken the second. The amount was 77.80. Cotton Bud was the first of two winners for jockey Don Wagner, who also steered Blue Runner, the successful horse in the fifth. Blue Runner defeated Speedy Jet in a driving finish and paid 0.60. the same price as Cotton Bud. Melvin Duhon, who recently returned to the saddle following a weeks absence, was the winning rider in the third. He was up on the well-played McCreight, who came from behind Vicki Diana to defeat her by a good margin. The fourth event was taken by Ladolee, ridden by Raymond Camp. Ladolee saved ground from the start to best Jean the Joker, with the favored Repartee racing for the first time in the silks of W. H. Bishop finishing unplaced. The third offspring of the stallion High Breeze to win during the day registered in the sixth race when Princess Ann was successful. Late Breeze and Cotton Bud, the first two winners, are also by High Breeze. Princess Ann, first favorite of the afternoon to register, came around the outside on the stretch turn, and although racing wide, bested Jump Tune, an outsider, by a head. Mike Weissman was the winning jockey.
