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En Fleur Retains Her Winning Form FormAnnexes Annexes Spring Handicap For Second Major Score ScoreOf Of Week at Sportsmans By J J MURPHY MURPHYSPORTSMANS SPORTSMANS PARK Cicero 111 May 1 En Pleur hardrunning fiveyearold mare from the barn of J H Nail Jr and M B Armer and ridden by jockey Anthony Skoronski registered her second major vic ¬ tory in one week when she was successful in vanquishing Phil D in the 7500 Spring Handicap here this afternoon The daugh ¬ ter of Apache came from some distance out of it in the sevenfurlong affair to find an opening on the inside of Phil D in the stretch and best the latter narrowly in a drive Third place in the sevenhorse race was taken by Dads Degree The winners time was 126 En Fleur who won four of her five starts at this course at the spring meeting last season was a strong public choice and paid 440 440Riders Riders Bide Time TimeBoth Both Skoronski on En Fleur and Don Wagner on Phil D bided their times with their charges in the early running while Heart Flash was making the pace and Lookout Jeep was running second Phil D and Dads Degree made their move simul ¬ taneously down the backstretch to reach contention and En Fleur began her run nearing the stretch turn turnHeart Heart Flash and Lookout Jeep began to weaken rounding the stretch bend and Phil D and Dads Degree moved up while En Fleur was making her charge Straight ¬ ened out in the stretch En Fleur made a steady move on the inside of the leaders With but 20 yards to go Phil D was in front but persistent riding on the part of Skoronski had his mount up in time timeA A crowd of 16352 largest of the meet ¬ ing took advantage of the fine weather to view this afternoons races and the track was fast En Fleur was winner of ofContinued Continued on Page FortyTwo En Fleur Retains Peak Condition at Sportsmans SportsmansContinued Continued from Page One Onethe the Inaugural Handicap opening day and he scored his now two successes in two starts startsThe The Daily Double paid 64800 when two outsiders were successful in the opening events My Ethelyn who had failed to be better than third iri seven starts this sea ¬ son took the initial number from the highly ragarded Depth O and Elapse who had drawn a complete blank in four prior starts this year immed the fairly well played Down Card in the second race Rob ¬ ert Stevenson rode the first winner and Leslie Wickel was aboard Elapse ElapseRonnie Ronnie Baldwin leading rider at the session rode the winner of the third race when he had Our Snick home in advance of the others in the tliird In taking the event Our Snick became the first double victor of the session He raced in the silks of Marion VanBerg and was a lukewarm choice choiceAnother Another repeater finished first in the fourth when Swanees Penny who won in the VanBerg silks earlier in the week and was racing for Edwin Roth Jr who claimed him from that event beat out Vezlark with a VanBerg runner Piparoo who was the public choice being third Baldwin rode Swanees Penny for his second success of the day dayDeep Deep Wonder owned by T G Benson and with Tony Skoronski in the saddle took the fifth which was at five furlongs Deep Wonder led Eternal Shock the fa ¬ vorite throughout Eternal Shock was al ¬ ways second and Mr Beano winner of the first race of the meeting was third
