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MUCHO GUSTO REPEATS Displays Another Fine Performance to Win Beech Hill Handicap. Comes From Behind to Aid Faltering" Stable Companion to Ward Off Compensatory s Bid. t LATONIA, Ky., June 9. Repeating his excellent performance of a few days ago, Mrs. Kirby Ramseys Mucho Gusto added the Beech Hill Handicap, this afternoons feature at Latonia, to his list of conquests. The four-year-old Marvin May colt defeated Compensatory by a half length in a driving finish, with My Blaze a length and one-half farther back in third place. Mucho Gusto was coupled in the betting with Crowning Glory and the entry ruled a pronounced favorite in the small field. Shouldering 112 pounds, Mucho Gusto demonstrated that his previous success over a distance was not of a fluke variety. The bay colt came from behind to take up the running from his faltering stable companion and exhibited a game effort in warding "off the bid of Compensatory during the last furlong of the mile and seventy yards contest. Crowning Glory acted badly at the post and consequently failed to get away as well as expected but before the first turn was reached Crowning Glory slipped through on the rail and took the forward position from My Blaze and Mucho Gusto, which went to the clubhouse turn almost as a team. This order was maintained until heading into the stretch, where Mucho Gusto replaced My Blaze and Compensatory moved into third place. It was the signal for a duel, for try as he might jockey Harry Louman was unable to hold his advantage with Crowning Glory, and Mucho Gusto took the command. Mucho Gustos advantage was never very great and the veteran Earl Pool drew his whip and applied it diligently to the flanks of Mucho Gusto in his effort to forestall the challenge of Compensatory. The combined efforts of Pool and Mucho Gusto were rewarded with a well deserved victory. Though the weather was partly cloudy, the sport was conducted over a fast track and close finishes thrilled the fairly large week day crowd which turned out to view the presentation of the eight-race program. Continued on thirty-eighth page. MUCHO GUSTO REPEATS Continued from first page. Racing, within three-fifths, of a second of the track record for five furlongs, J. W. Parrishs Proph captured the Merrick Place Purse, secondary feature on the card, which brought out a band of seven juveniles. Defeating Ginocchio and Crows Flight, the. chestnut son of High Time Marybelle raced the distance in :59, which equals the best time recorded thus far this season. Proph reached the finish mark with an advantage of a length and a half overjjis nearest competitor, Ginocchio, but the .winner displayed signs of, tiring in the closing stages and began bearing out. However, jockey George South, who was astride the Parrish representative, managed to keep his charge going long enough to keep out of danger. The youngster broke swiftly and went on to cut out a sizzling pace for his rivals, with Ginocchio in closest pursuit the greater portion of the trip, while Crows Flight appeared to loaf and was steered wide the entire trip. Despite the fact that Proph raced to a dead heat decision with Crows Flight in his previous start, the colt was overlooked in the betting, paying 2.40 for . Ten threeryear-olds of ordinary caliber contested over the six-furlong distance in the opening race of the day, and C. R. Jordans Raymond, well ridden by jockey Joe Cowley, -was returned a handy winner over Jack W., while Batman, a rank outsider in the betting, landed third. Jack W. was fast leaving the gate and consequently opened up a lead on his rivals, with Raymond in closest pursuit. The brown colt responded to the urging of his rider in the stretch and steadily wore down Jack W. in the last sixteenth to register by a length and a half. The Rockhome Stables Carl S. and odds-on favorite in the field of twelve juveniles that matched strides in the second race, over five furlongs, easily accounted for first money over Putzen, the second choice, with Cavour drawing up in third place. Cavour showed the way until well straightened away in the stretch, but when Carl S. made his charge he rapidly overhauled the leader and moved away to a five-length victory. A close finish resulted in the third event, another sprint affair for three-year-olds, in which Pierre Andre got up in the closing strides to take the decision by a head over Novette. Parrish Roach collected third money. Novette and Monks Gold fought for the right to set the pace during the first half mile, with the former succeeding in holding a slight lead. Pierre Andre was rated close to the leaders and, after heading into the stretch, went about the task of overtaking the leader, which was accomplished within the last seventy yards. A tight finish brought the camera into use for the first time this week when Thomas Piatts Listening was up in the closing stride to register a nose decision over Sis Alice, which held a like advantage over Buddie Treacy. Sir Boston was a neck farther back in fourth place. Sis Alice stole into a long lead soon after the field of six starters was sent on its way and appeared to be coasting to an easy triumph as they swung around the stretch bend. However, Listening and Buddie Treacy moved up stoutly, and the trio went under the wire almost on even terms.
