En Fleur Seeks Spring Handicap: Speedy Nail and Armer Mare Is Asked to Turn Back Phil D. Again at Sportsmans Park, Daily Racing Form, 1954-05-01

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En Fleur Seeks Spring Handicap HandicapSpeedy Speedy Nail Armer Mare Is Asked to Turn Back Phil D Again at Sportsmans Park ParkBy By J J MURPHY MURPHYStaff Staff Correspondent SPORTSMANS PARK Cicero HI April 30 En Fleur a fiveyearold mare who seems to like this halfmile track almost as well as she likes her oats will go after her second handicap of the meeting when she starts in the featured Spring Handi ¬ cap here Saturday The daughter of Apache who won four of her five starts over this strip last spring and was an easy victress in the Inaugural Handicap last Monday will meet seven others over the seven furlong distance for the purse of 7500 She will be piloted by Tony Skor onski who has hit his stride here and bids fair to become the leading jockey of the session and who also rode her Monday MondayEn En Fleur races in the interests of John H Nail Jr and M W Arner the former from Texas and the latter from Kansas She will pick up four pounds from her recent success in carrying 116 which is second top weight for the race Phil D owned by W Clyde Martin another Texan will be the highweight in the field just as he was in the Inaugural He will drop one pound from that try in which he fin ¬ ished third beaten slightly over four lengths by En Fleur Phil D will carry 119 119No No Excuse in Inaugural InauguralPhil Phil D who was the favorite in the In ¬ augural had no apparent excuse in that event He raced forwardly and saved1 ground after getting to the front while En Fleur who had worked her way up from seventh place came down the middle of the track Daiquari who split the pair is not named for the Spring Handicap but in the lineup will be W C Tacketts Frosty Face who was entered and failed to get in due to being on the also eligible list Mrs D L McLachlans Heart Flash who was second in a fivefurlong sprint on the same day ArEv Stables Dads Degree and Mrs W J Schmidts Lookout Jeep winners at this meeting and the Marion VanBerg entry of Andros and Dagazha DagazhaThe The VanBerg pair could be dangerous Each is a winner this year Andros took a mile and a sixteenth event at the Fair Grounds in February beating a fair field and was also a winner at Hot Springs Dagazha was victorious at Gulfstream Park Lookout Jeep beat such as Spring Khal Master Red and Joe Graves at five furlongs in his last outing here Dads De ¬ gree won over Daylight Time False and others at seven furlongs


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