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FRANCESCO IN HONOR POST Will Be Starting Top Weight in the 0,000 Tropical Handicap. Bace to Feature Closing Day of Meeting Next Saturday Pasteurized Out of Contest. MIAMI, Fla., April 1. Francesco will be -the starting high weight in the 0,000 Tropical Handicap which climaxes the meeting at the Gables Racing Association next Saturday, it became evident today, as racing secretary Bob Shelley announced his handicap for the mile and a sixteenth event for three year-olds and upward, only added money event of the meeting at this point. There were twenty-one nominations for the race, with Mrs. Plunket Stewarts Pasteurized, winner of the classic Belmont, the actual top weight at 124. Trainer George Odom has decided to give up on the son of Milkman here following his disappointing race in the Widener and in subsequent races, in all of which he sulked and refused to extend himself. Odom has shipped the horse to Columbia, S. C, and will give him a rest, unless training moves indicate he is ready to run at his best pace again. INTENDED STARTER. Francesco is next in line among the eligi-bles at 116. He is an intended starter. Under the Shelley handicap he will be conceding" two pounds to Teddy Weed, which established a track record at Tropical this season over the re-surfaced racing strip. Both horses will start, according to Shelley. The default of Pasteurized will rob the race of a classy campaigner but may prove a boon in some respects. Shelley believed that only four or five horses would haye been willing to meet Mrs. Stewarts thoroughbred. Now he holds that fourteen are still training seriously for the race and that between ten and a dozen of these will accept the final issue. Besides Pasteurized, the half dozen other horses that, are sure not to go are Warlaine, Knight Gallant, Her Reigh, Your Buddy, Go Home and Stockboard. Most of these have either shipped elsewhere or have been thrown out of training to await a summer campaign. Warlaine, which showed promising racing here earlier in the season, has a bad leg and will be rested for New England competition by trainer E. E. Russell. IN RARE FORM. No Sir, under 116 pounds, is in rare form, judging from his last in which he unleashed a great burst of speed in the stretch to be a winner. He is certain to be among the better-supported candidates on the final day of the regularly scheduled meeting. Our Ketcham, which held the mile and seventy yards record before it was broken by Teddy Weed, is in at 110. That way weighted, he will be a very formidable factor. It now appears, however, that Teddy Weed may rule the choice over the fast-closing Francesco and all the others. There are no penalties in the race. The event was first run as the Tropical Special and inthose days was restricted to three-year-olds with ,000 value. This will be the second running of the present contest. Following is the complete list of weights and probable starters: Horse. Wt. Horse Wt. Francesco .116 Bobs Boys 106 Teddy Weed 114 Co-Sport ...105 No Sir 112 Xavier ... ......105 Our Ketcham 110 Count Valiant". . .105 Palamede 108 Buttermilk .101 False Point 106 Dnieper 100 Maeriel 106 Feng 100 Non-starters: Horse. Wt. Horse. Wt. Pasteurized 124. Go Home., 102 Warlaine .110 Your Buddy 100 Knight Gallant. .108 Stockboard 100 Her Reigh....... 104 :
