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Eight-Horse Field Named For Detroit Top Offering Lieutenant, Princess Trace and Sharbot Meet at Six Furlongs By DON FAIR Staff Correspondent DETROIT RACE COURSE, Livonia, Mich., May 27. — The Fenkell Purse, a six-furlong condition race for four-year-olds and upward, will headline an attractive program Friday at this course. The sprint feature lured an overnight field of eight and the high weight under the allowance terms of the dash is H. Wise and J. Sick-ings Lieutenant, pegged at 119 pounds. Lieutenant will make his local seasonal debut in the Fenkell and he will have the saddle services of capable Howard Craig. The Wise and Sicking representative worked smartly for his engagement and it must be remembered that he visited the winners ring last year on 13 occasions while meeting good company. George White will saddle an entry for the Friday attraction ; Mrs. Whites Princess Trace, 108, and Nocallula, 104 pounds. Princess Trace, a Princequillo-sired mare, Continued on Page Thirty-Fhe Eight-Horse Field Named For Detroit Top Offering Lieutenant, Princess Trace and Sharbot Meet at Six Furlongs Continued from Page One is a noted off-track racer and won three of her 10 dutings last year. The White mare scored on fast, sloppy and muddy footing and. she is rated dangerous at the Fenkell weights. Nocallula will be a suitable running-mate for Princess Trace. She was defeated here in her initial start of the current meeting but . raced well enough during her 1953 campaign to post three victories, one of which was scored at Keeneland over such rivals as Pampas Beauty, Task Fleet, a recent winner at Detroit; and Gray Challenge, among others. Jockey Lois Cook will have the mount on Princess Trace in the Fenkell and apprentice Robin Robbins is to handle Nocallula. C. P. Sowers, who always enjoyed good success at Michigan meetings, also will put the tack on a paid of Fenkell purse starters; George Bills, Jr.s Star Show, 106, and Tamarack Stables Sharbot, 103 pounds. Star Show, successful in a three-quarters mile event at Gulf stream Park in March, is expected to go well in the Friday sprint and Sharbot defeated a fast field of high class platers here Wednesday. Jockey Robert Lee Baird, clever journeyman race rider, will have the mount on one of the Sowers-conditioned Fenkell Purse entrants. Others expected to go to the post are Fiddle, a member of the Mrs. E. E. Dale Shaffer establishment, 108 pounds; Mrs. Joseph Tomlinsons Canadian -owned Blackamoor, 110, and R. B. Walters hardhitting Fly Lelia, 112 pounds; The latter will be handled by Jockey Jerry West, and Willie Zakoor, who has been showing excellent saddle form, is engaged for Blackamoor. Jockey Tony Skoronski was named by trainer H. H. "Pete" Battle to guide Fiddle. Fly Lelia, a 4-year-old filly, the get of Blue Flyer and Miss Lelia H., is the Fenkell Purse "dark horse" and she has turned in several most impressive morning trials since her arrival at the local oval. Fly Lelia, a useful campaigner during her two and three-year-old seasons, chalked up four cleverly-eamed triumphs last year. Best" supporting number on the card is the mile sixth and seven middle distance performers, three-year-old and older, are to meet here. James Paddocks Nepal, Thomas G. Mays Whirling Bat, and Al- bert Wellmans Foxpoise probably will draw the bulk of "tote" support against Joseph P. Halls Boressa, the Andrews and Zakoor entry, Intention and Shifty Dora; and Mrs. Lottie Wolfs locally-owned Blen Sand.
