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Seventeen Nominations Made For Thomas D. Nash Memorial ♦ Reverie Knolls Smokelore in , Sportsmans Saturday Event; Knights Reward Is Favorite , SPORTSMANS PARK. Cicero. 111., May 12. — Reverie Knoll Farms Smokelore will 1 be among the 17 handicap stars seeking ; a victory in Saturdays 0,000 feature attraction, . the Thomas D. Nash Memorial Handicap at one and one-sixteenth miles, . at Sportsmans Park. If the Reverie Knoll star goes to the . post it will be the first time one of their , horses has started at the West Side race course. The Reverie Knoll Farm string is ; owned by Freeman Keyes. Chicago advertising . executive and are trained by Frank Sanders. Marion H. VanBergs Knights Reward, , winner of two handicaps this year, the . . ,500 Spring Handicap at seven furlongs on Saturday. April 30. and the 0,000 J Sportsmans Park Handicap, last Saturdays feature at one and one-sixteenth miles, will be seeking his third victory in as many starts. The six-year-old Reaping Reward gelding will most likely be the favorite to make it three in a row. Race Honors Memory of Famed Attorney Others seeking a chance at the big closing . day feature, which honors the late , Thomas D. Nash, prominent attorney and civic leader, are Valley View Farms Vain I . Vixen and Idle Platter ; the Wallace Strong entry of Heredity and Nickies Boy; William Hal Bishops dual threat of Equal 1 Strife and Chara; Armer and Nails Deb Chaser and En Fleur, A. L. Birchs Timely Tip, Mrs. Elizabeth Mucklers Heutel, Anthony Graffagninis Bookworm. Bryan H. Wises Mr. Dink, Mrs. Betty Venolas Bettys Beauty, Mrs. Frank J. Munaos Golden Admiral, and William J. Schmidts Streaking. Heutel, a winner at seven furlongs last ; Wednesday, was one of the top handicap 1 stars at the Cicero track last fall; Streaking won a pair of races at the current meeting, while Deb Chaser and En Fleur won on opening day, the former accounting for one section of the Inaugural and 1 the latter winning a seven-furlong affair. Timely Tip, winner of the 1954 Arkansas Derby in his only start, finished third behind Knights Reward and Deb Chaser in i last Saturdays Sportsmans Handicap. Idle 1 Platter, Chara, Equal Strife. Mr. Dink, and I King, who are expected to make a strong bid for Saturdays victory, all finished out ; of the money in the same race. Nickies : Boy and Golden Admiral won at the cur-I rent session along with Bettys Beauty, Bookworm, and Chara. ■ , j j i
