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! LATGNIA CHAMPIONSHIP j I RON NEXT SATURDAY a..-------..-..--------- LATONIA, Ky., Oct. 29. Bringing to" the West the best in the three-year-old division, the Latonia Championship Stakes, to be renewed at one mile and three-quarters here next Saturday, is one of the outstanding turf features of the year and a titular contest in the truest sense of the word. Here Gusto, M. Li. Schwartz remarkable son of American Flag and Daylight Savings, needs only to click victoriously to carry into winter quarters the championship of the season. He has to his credit victories over all rival claimants save Burgoo King, whose unfortunate early removal from the three-year-old ranks just about cost him the championship when it was within his grasp. Gallant Sir, Norman W. Churchs good son of Six Gallahad IH., which has been blazing a triumphant trail for some weeks and only recently vanquished the great Equipoise, will be here to offer his bid for the 0,000 prize. Close observers believe that Gallant Sir will prove the toughest to beat next Saturday and if he gets away with honors will break a long string of successive victories for the East in this event. Mad Frump, the handy C. V. Whitney home-bred and the first of the more accomplished candidates to leave eastern racing grounds for the scene of this autumn fixture, has been giving Gallant Sir and the entire eastern handicap division trouble this fall. Just two weeks ago he trounced the renowned Twenty Grand, four-year-old Greentree Stable star and champion three-year-old of 1931. The ever dangerous Osculator, which races for W. R. Coe, and J. Fred Adams Rehoboth are others that are expected to travel West for this race. Big Beau, owned by H. P. Headley, and, like Gallant Sir, a western entry, also came to Latonia several days ago. Like Mad Frump, he came from Maryland. Cee Tee, property of Charles T. Fisher, and Cathop, R. M. Eastmans eligible, are other western hopes and probably the less fashionable in the probable field, the best in several runnings of the race which had its inception in 1919. Winners of the Championship, beginning with the inaugural winner, were: Mad Hatter, Cleopatra, Sporting Blood, Rockminis-ter, In Memoriam, Chilhowee, King Nadi, Display, Rolled Stockings, Sun Beau, The Nut, Spinach and St. Brideaux. -
