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HOOTS SILKS APPEAR AGAIN Colors Made Famous by Black Gold to Be Borne in Competition at Fair Grounds. NEW ORLEANS, La., Dec. 7. The rose and white silks of Mrs. R. M. Hoots, which were made famous by Black Gold some twelve years ago, are on display at the Fair Grounds this season, but the owner of the four-time Derby winner of 1924 lias gone to the happy huntinggrbutids. Three grandchildren, one daughter arid two sons of Waldo T. Freeman,, who is training the two-year-old Heinous for the estate of the late Mrs. Hoots, are the owners. The estate of the Indian sportswoman, who hailed from Oklahoma, includes Wanda Freeman, Richard Freeman and Donald Freeman, and it will be in the interests of this trio that the bay gelding by Kilkerry Miss Tulsa will race in the future. HEINOUS TRAINING. Heinous is in training here at present, and when the gelding makes his first appearance on the track at the Fair Grounds this season, the rose and white silks that were so successfully carried by Black Gold, are certain to bring back memories to those who saw the son of Black Toney and Useeit begin and end his racing career at the Louisiana Jockey Clubs track. In addition to Black Gold, the late Mrs. Hoots raced a full brother to the four-time Derby winner in Beggar Boy, but the latter failed to attain the heights of his older brother. Beggar Boy was a sprinter pure and simple, and while he displayed burning speed on some occasions, he failed to enter the top bracket as thoroughbreds go. The Hoots colors, which have been through many stormy sessions in racing, beginning with the refusal of R. M. Hoots to give up Useeit, the dam of Black Gold, when she was claimed out of a race, was bequeathed to the grandchildren of the late Mrs. Hoots to be saved for posterity.
