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Eternal Moon Meets Irish Villon in Fonner Headliner HeadlinerFormer Former Seeks Second Straight CoFeature Attracts Homebreds HomebredsBy By DEAN WILLIAMS WILLIAMSFONNER FONNER PARK Grand Island Nebr May 3 The one mile and seventy yards felks Handicap drew a good field of eight high caliber distance performers Eternal Moon and Irish Villon are topweighted under 114 pounds over Prairie Gem with 112 Anns Brief 109 Childers 111 Soma 110 Senatory Buy 110 and Red Randy 108 108Cedar Cedar Valley Stables Eternal Moon turned in a very impressive effort in his first start of the season at Fonner Park The brown son of Eternal Bull and Angel came from far off the pace to catch 3en Fogelsons Reno John at the wire to gain a nose victory His first winning effort was at six and onehalf furlongs and the longer distance of Saturdays feature should be more to his liking likingIrish Irish Villon who gained two victories earlier in the season at Turf Paradise has started twice this year at Fonner Park and turned in impressive performances each time The Nebraska bred gelding turned in one of his most creditable efforts last Sat ¬ urday behind Mephistopheles and The Snapper as the former set a newtrack rec ¬ ord for six and onehalf furlongs His high degree of consistency makes him a real threat threatBells Bells Phil and Kay Ellen two of Ne ¬ braskas top threeyearolds renew their rivalry in the sixth race The Columbus Races Purse Both are homebreds and each won stakes last year The race is cer ¬ tain to attact a great deal of attention and it will serve as the cofeature
