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Heutel Scores Upset Triumph Before 17250 at Sportsmans Largest Crowd of Meeting Sees Muckler Racer Down Phil D En Fleur Is Fifth FifthBy By J J MURPHY MURPHYSPORTSMANS SPORTSMANS PARK Cicero 111 May 8 The management of Sportsmans Park entertained the largest crowd of the spring season today 17250 patrons passing through the gates and they saw Heutel a fiveyearold outsider owned by Mrs Elizabeth Muckler of St Louis in a thrill ¬ ing victory over the sixyearold Phil D from the stable of W Clyde Martin of Stratford Texas The pair finished lapped on each other and well in advance of Gulf Stream owned by Ralph Parachek of Toledo Ohio fourth place going to An dros owned by Marion VanBerg while the good mare En Fleur winner of four out of five races here last year and un ¬ beaten in two handicaps at this session was fifth Heutel paid 2220 and was ex ¬ pertly handled by Job Jessop for that jockeys second success of the afternoon afternoonPhil Phil D Sets Pace PaceEn En Pleur the favorite was ridden by the veteran Willie Morrissey who had been aboard her in her successes here last sea son Tony Skoronski who had piloted her in her two previous triumphs did not have a mount in the race Phil D set the pace with En Fleur second and they raced in that order to the stretch turn approach when Heutel who had been close up in the early running came up strongly on the outside Phil D clung to a length advan ¬ tage after entering the stretch but Heutel was gaining and although his rival held on Continued on Page FortyEight Heutel Scores Surprise Victory at Sportsmans SportsmansDowns Downs Phil D Before 17250 Largest Crowd of Spring Meet MeetContinued Continued from Page One Onetenaciously tenaciously he was up in time to win by a head headEn En Fleur definitely weakened in the run home while Gulf Stream who had trailed in the first halfmile made up ground to finish fast Andros also finished fairly well while Lion and Dads Degree the other starters appeared overmatched al ¬ though the latter had some early speed The pace was slow and the winners time was 147 as against the track record of 146 estblished two years ago by Espinos Image The affair aws worth 4875 to the winner who was recently beaten by ordi ¬ nary ones in a fivefurlong dash and who was making his sixth start of the year and his second at the session The track was fast fastJockeys Jockeys Ronnie Baldwin leading rider here and Anthony Skoronski who is the runnerup each had a pair of winners in the first five races Baldwin started off the day in scoring with the wellplayed Flying Tassle from the VanBerg barn and repeated with the favored Burn Burst in the fifth Skoronski landed Tims Moon home first in the second and scored with Gallant D in the fourth fourthFlying Flying Tassle was an easy winner After Martin Whelan had made the early pace in the fivefurlong affair the VanBerg mare took over and went as she pleased through the stretch Tims Moon completed a 2980 Daily Double when he withstood the challenge of the favored Liability near the end endThe The third race was taken by the well backed Sweet Freedom who displayed good speed from the start and won in clever style with Leslie Wickel up Gallant D in scoring his second consecutive success at the meeting withstood a closing challenge of Our Snick who had won his two previ ¬ ous races racesBern Bern Burst beaten by Snow Sox here the other day turned the tables on that filly in taking the fifth In fact Snow Sox was not in the money Embassy being sec ¬ ond and Fleet Dream third Bern Burst won as she pleased after catching Dark Embassy on the stretch turn turnOur Our Kite making his third start of the meeting won the sixth event under the clever handling of Job Jessop The veteran rider took a nice hold on his charge in the early running and sent him up in the stretch to take command and win by a neck from Daiquari the second choice with Look Out Jeep taking third place Master Red the favorite set the pace for a little over five furlongs then weakened Our Kite is owned by Mrs Duncan Mac Lachlan The distance was seven furlongs and the winners time a good 127
