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HOLLYWOOD GOLD CUP Seven Stars to Meet in Saturdays 50000 Race in California Kayak II Rules Big Favorite With WithCravat Cravat Regarded as His Most MostDangerous Dangerous Opponent INGLEWOOD Calif July 21 After the smoke of the 50000 Hollywood Gold Cup race has cleared away along about 530 Saturday afternoon some owner will be 35 075 the richer and the betting is less than even money that it will be Charles S How ¬ ard San Francisco automobile merchant who will send Kayak U postward in the race raceI I Kayak II from the faroff Argentine rules a shortpriced choice to win the second run ¬ ning of the Inglewood classic and it is just possible that he will pay no more than did his illustrious stable companion Seabiscuit Seabiscuitin in winning the event last summer Seabis ¬ cuit paid 340 when he beat Specify by one 1 and onehalf lengths Whichcee finished i third Both Specify and Whichcee are in Saturdays field but Kayak II according to present prices is expected to defeat them by a greater margin marginTHREATENS THREATENS RECORD RECORDThe The South American carrying eight pounds less than did Seabiscuit last season is expected to eclipse the latters mile and a quarter record which is 203 Many ex ¬ pect the Gold Cup winner and the great majority take it for granted that the winner will be Kayak IL to clip a full second from the mark markThe The second horse to cross the finish line in the Gold Cup will take down 10000 the third horse 5000 and the fourth horse 2500 Opinion is divided as to just what horse is second best in the big race Many are stringing along with Cant Wait because of his recent good race and his light weight of 109 pounds Others point to Cra ¬ vats Brooklyn and Suburban Handicap vic ¬ tories as proof that he is a champion while still others rely on the great early speed of Specify and Whichcee to carry them to some part of the money moneyNOT NOT CONSIDERED CONSIDEREDOlimpo Olimpo and Gosum are the orphans of the storm Nobody mentions them in connection with a Gold Cup victory They are out on the limb in the big race and few but the owners put up the cash to start them in the affair believe they have a chance Remember this stake is of 50000 No form reversals are likely to occur here Olimpo also from the Argentine is scarcely ever mentioned in the Continued on fourteenth page HOLLYWOOD GOLD CUP Continued from first page same breath with Kayak II while Gosum defeated at the current meeting such horses as No Dice Patty Cake and Sweepalot fig ¬ ures to have but little chance The distance is the only thing in Gosums favor favorA A rehash of the recent races of the other contenders may be gleaned from a glance at the past performance records on other pages of this paper Suffice to state here that Kayqk II is unbeaten in his last three starts having won the San Carlos and Santa Anita Handicaps at Santa Anita and the American Handicap at Hollywood Park Cravat has scored in the Brooklyn and Su ¬ burban Specify in the Englewood Mile Handicap Cant Wait fourth to Cravat in the Brooklyn having won a mile race in 137 in his only Hollywood appearance and Whichcee having worked sensationally after being beaten ten lengths by Specify in the Inglewood Mile MileHAS HAS BEST BECOBD BECOBDKayak Kayak H has by far the best record Since his arrival in this country he has been beaten but three times in thirteen starts and has never been out of the money He finished second in his American debut and was again second in a mile and seventy yards race on a heavy track at Laurel and given a poor ride at Santa Anita was third in a mile and a sixteenth affair The alltime money earning record for the fouryearold is 117030 117030Four Four Gold Cup candidates were on the track Friday morning for their final blow out in preparation for the race Kayak II went threeeighths in 36 Cravat as usual working in company with Brown Moth went fiveeighths in 101 Specify went a half mile in 48 and Gosum traveled three eighths in 351 Jockeys were named for all contestants Friday morning With the exception of the good apprentice Albert Siler who will ride Whichcee all are veterans George Woolf nationally known star heavyweight will be up on Kayak IT Willie Saunders who rode Omaha to victory in the Kentucky Derby some years ago and who recently returned to the saddle after a twoyear rest wilL be on Cant Wait Charley Corbett leading rider of the meeting will ride Specify Les ¬ ter Balaski star veteran will be aboard Olimpo Jack Westrope onetime American jockey leader will be on Cravat and Wallace Leishman will ride Gosurn GosurnOWNEBS OWNEBS PBESENT PBESENTOwners Owners of the seven big race candidates will be present to watch their horses per ¬ form Townsend B Martin owner of Cravat was an arrival from the East Friday morn ¬ ing while Lin Howard coowner of Olimpo checked in from New York Thursday and Bing Crosby Howards partner will take a day off from the studios studiosCharles Charles S Howard owner of Kayak II made the trip down from San Francisco and Maj Austin C Taylor owner of Whichcee arrived from Vancouver B C last week Myron Selznick owner of Cant Wait will call it a day while Nelson A Howard owner of Gosum and Bert Baroni owner of Specify are regular attendants of Hollywood Baroni is the only ownertrainer represented in the race raceThe The winner of the Gold Cup will be deco ¬ rated by Mrs Muriel Vanderbilt Phelps prominent San Francisco socialite and own ¬ er of a stable of thoroughbred horses horsesBecause Because of the rather ordinary business that has prevailed throughout the present meeting the parimutuel handle on Gold Cup Day is not expected to reach the 987 210 total of last year It is thought that the play may total slightly over 800000 The handle on the Gold Cup race last year was 178735 178735Warm Warm clear weather was in order Friday and the weather prophets stated that cli ¬ matic conditions would remain unchanged through Saturday so the track will be fast The running of the Gold Cup will be broad ¬ cast over three networks and the boys handling the microphones will go on the air at approximately 5 p m mHorace Horace Luro Argentine sportsman who brought Amor Brujo and a number of other South American raceis to this country was an arrival Thursday He came from New York in company with Lin Howard Luro who recently paid a visit to his homeland brought four head back with him They will be raced in the East and later shipped West for winter racing
