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0,000 TROPICAL HANDICAP FINALE IN FLORIDA ELEVEN ARE ELIGIBLE Mucho Gusto Carrying Top Weight Workman Rides Infantry. Most Important Race in Tropical Parks History Fitting Climax, for Successful Season. CORAL GABLES, Fla., April 8. Floridas most successful racing season since the legalization of the sport in this state will be brought to a brilliant conclusion with the first running of the 0,000 added Tropical Handicap at Tropical Park tomorrow afternoon. Eleven stars of the handicap colony have been entered in the mile and a sixteenth event for three-year-olds and upward which William Vincent Dwyer has introduced as the most important race ever run at the Gables course. Interest will be centered upon Much Gusto, unbeaten at Tropical Park this year. The fleet Ramsey and Coppage standard bearer won the Christmas Handicap and the E. Fhocion Howard Memorial at the first meeting and the Orange Blossom and Coral Gables Spring Handicaps at the current meeting. Handicapper Robert S. Shelley has asked "Big Gus" to carry top weight of 124 pounds, but his performance and popularity have installed the six-year-old son of Marvin May a stanch early favorite in the field. He completed his training for the race with a fast mile in 1:39 on "Wednesday over the Hialeah racing strip. He will be ridden by Sterling young. STRONG COMBINATION. Tatterdemalion, which will carry the noted New York silks of the veteran horseman Thomas J. Healey, will be ridden by Eddie Arcaro, riding star of the Florida campaign and currently runner-up on the American jockey list. The son of St. Germans went a mile in 1:42 handily Thursday. He will carry 118 pounds. Jockey Raymond "Sonny" Workman, famous ex-Whitney rider, is scheduled to fly down from Maryland to ride Millsdale Stables Infantry, the mid-west hope under 116 pounds. His final was a brisk mile in 1:40 Thursday. Included in the field are Townsend B. Martins gray Court Scandal and Miss Mary Hirschs No Sir, winner and runner-up in the 1938. Flamingo Stakes respectively. Both get in nicely under 112 pounds. Two alien invaders, Como No II from Chile and the Canadian-owned Jack Patches contribute international color to the race. Track superintendent Henry Collins has the mile track lightning fast and there is a chance that the mile and a sixteenth track record of 1:43 will be lowered by the best field of horses that ever raced at the Gables course. Preparation has been made for the han-.dling of the largest crowd of the season, which is confidently expected, and William Vincent Dwyer has decided there will be no increase in the admission price and all badges will be honored.
