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FLORIDA RACING SEASON TO TERMINATE TODAY 9 FINALE AT TROPICAL Derby Consolation With ,000 Added Feature of Fine Program. Dnieper and Bright Plumage Appear Best of Small Field Viscaya Stakes Supplementary. MIAMI, Fla., April 3. Racing in Florida for the 1936 season comes to a conclusion at the Tropical Park course tomorrow afternoon, with the best card that has been offered by that organization. It is topped by the Derby Consolation, a gallop of a mile and a furlong for three-year-olds, to which ,000 is added, and as the name suggests, invites starters in the Florida Derby that had been beaten. Under its conditions the winner is ineligible. In addition, the Viscaya Stakes, a four-furlong test for the juveniles, which carries an added money award of ,500, will bring together the best of the two-year-olds still in Florida. An even half dozen are carded for the Derby Consolation and under its conditions Mrs. P. A. B. Wideners Dnieper, which was second to Brevity in the Florida Derby, and C. V. Whitneys Endurance Handicap winner, Bright Plumage, which was third in the Florida Derby, each take up 118 pounds. The others of the company are H. H. Browns Swamp Angel and the Southland Stable3 Ceiling, each carrying 114 pounds; R. W. Collins Old Comrade, 110 pounds, and W. J. Hirschs good filly, Columbiana, 109 pounds. PROSPECTrVE FAVORITE. Such a field should provide an excellent contest, for each of these eligible3 has been coming up to the running in a satisfactory manner, with Dnieper the probable favorite. This good son of Kiev and the Fair Play mare, Nerva, has not been to the post since his race in the Florida Derby, in Avhich he took the measure of Bright Plumage, though soundly beaten by Brevity, but he has been working well for Dan Stewart and a recent trial of a mile and a furlong in 1:50 pronounced him fit and ready. He will be ridden by Wayne Wright, whose winning of the Santa Anita Derby with He Did, the Santa Anita Handicap with Top Row and the Florida Derby with Brevity gives him something on the others, as far as big prizes are concerned. Jack Healey has promised that Bright Plumage will be a better colt than he was in the Florida Derby, and he, too, has worked well for the running. Like Dnieper, he has not been shown under silks since the Florida Derby, but last Tuesday he breezed a mile and a furlong in 1:52, in a fashion that was impressive. "Sonny" Workman came all the way from Washington for the mount and there is considerable confidence in the stable. FILLY DANGEROUS. Bright Plumage and Dnieper will undoubtedly be the most fancied in the small field, but "Buddy" Hirsch has a worthy representative in his Petee-Wrack filly Columbiana. This miss was not in the Florida Derby and as a matter of fact she has never raced over such a distance as a mile and a furlong, but she has been steadily improving and, in a race previous to the big prize of the Miami Jockey Club, she finished second to Brevity. She has a mile score to her credit at the present meeting, and recently breezed the mile and a furlong distance of the Consolation in 1:58. She will be ridden by Seabo. Next in consideration will come Ceiling, the son of Ariel, that has won two mile races at the present meeting, though beaten by Bright Plumage at Hialeah Park, with the Whitney colt giving him-teh pounds against the four he has to concede in the Consolation. Both Swamp Angel and Old Comrade would have to improve greatly over anything that has been shown to be accorded serious consideration in the field. For the Viscaya thirteen eligibles have been named and it is probable the Maemere Farm Stable entry of Rockwood and Maedic will rule as the favorite combination. Rock-wood, a comparatively recent purchase, has won three of his five starts, was second once, and third once. His two most recent vic-tories were at the Tropical Park meeting, .Continued on eighth page. FLORIDA RACING SEASON TO TERMINATE TODAY Continued from first page. and George Phillips has him in rare condition. Other stables with more than one starter in the Viscaya are the Bomar Stable with Little Shaver and Cosette, W. H. Gallagher with Say When and Chanting, and Mrs. Clyde Phillips with Moss Gal and Cathy P. Altogether it is a decidedly good field of young thoroughbreds that is engaged, but Rockwood, on public performance, seems best. The supporting card for the two features is the best one that has been furnished at the Gables course, and it is assured that the long racing season that began December 16 at the same course will be brought to a brilliant conclusion. j
