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a MUCHO GUSTO EN ROUTE SOUTH Ramsey Ships Star to Florida for Winter Campaign. Veteran Racer Popular With Tropical Park Fans Will Be Pointed for Christmas Handicap. MIAMI, Fla., Nov. 17. Mucho Gusto, winner of the Christmas Handicap and Howard Memorial last winter, again is on his way to Florida to strike at the handicap prizes offered during Tropical Parks first meeting, which opens here on December 19. Kirby Ramsey and his son, Bob, shipped "Big Gus" from Narragansett to Miami with seventeen other horses recently. "Big Gus" is a popular favorite with Tropical Park patrons. At the first Gables meeting last season he was unbeatable and demonstrated decisively that he fancies the racing strip on the edge of the Everglades. "He will be pointed again for the Christmas Handicap and Howard Memorial and should win both of them," said Ramsey. "He is a better horse than he was last winter and we expect him to be a dangerous threat in the 0,000 Widener Cup later in the season." OUTBREAKS STAR. Mucho Gusto showed his improvement when he outbroke the fast War Admiral in the recent Rhode Island Handicap and finished second to the good son of Man o War. Word was received from New York that James Fitzsimmons, dean of metropolitan public trainers, is gathering a powerful winter division to race in Miami this winter. This division will be dispatched to Miami soon and Fitzsimmons will arrive later to prepare them for their Tropical Park, racing. Fitzsimmons is a member of the Florida license board, which will meet to pass on tiainers and jockeys licenses at Tropical Park during the third week in December. Fitzsimmons trains the horses of William Woodward, chairman of The Jockey Club; the Wheatley Stable, Ogden Phipps and other turf leaders.
