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KAYAK II. ALOHA NOMINEE Hollywood Gold Cup Winner Entered in An Eevoir Feature. Assigned 132 Pounds, With Cravat In Under 130 Pounds Big Ed Allotted Only 95 Pounds. INGLE WO OD, Calif., July 27. Kayak II., winner of the Hollywood Gold Cup, has been nominated for the 5,000 added Aloha Handicap, to be run the closing day of the Hollywood Park meeting. The naming of the imported son of Congreve, came as a surprise to even racing secretary Webb Everett, who believed that he had finished with the weighting of the Howard horse for the season. Sorteado, Olimpo and Mount Vernon II. are other foreigners in the field of nine. California will be represented by the strong stretch-runner Wildland, from the Frank Carr Stable, while Bert Baroni will try with Specify, which finished third in the Gold Cup; Nelson A. Howard has named Gosum, also a Gold Cup starter, while the Wild Tree Stable deems Big Ed. good enough to nominate. KAYAK II. IN SEABISCUITS CLASS. Kayak II. is now in the Seabiscuit class. He has been allotted regular "Seabiscuit weight" for the running of the race, and if he goes postward in that affair he must carry 132 pounds. He is burdened with two pounds more than Cravat, which he defeated by five lengths in the Gold Cup while toting 125 to the latters 126. The weights and the distance seems to bring the stars together fairly well. Cravat is a proved horse at the mile and a half Aloha distance, while Kayak II.s ability to carry on with a heavy package, for the marathon distance is a trifle doubtful. Following are the weights for the Aloha Handicap: Horse. Wt. Horse. Wt. Kayak II. 132 Olimpo ...104 Cravat 130 Mount Vernon H.102 Specify 114 Wildland 100 Sorteado 109 Big Ed 95 Gosum 107 Owner Charles S. Howard has practically decided upon future plans for Kayak II. The horse will be given a short rest at Del Mar and then sent East to start in the Narra-gansett Special, to be run at Narragansett Park on September 2. If he comes out of that race in good shape Kayak II. may be sent to Hawthorne for the Gold Cup and later to Maryland for a fall campaign. He definitely will not be sent to Saratoga, according to latest advices from the stable. PROSPECTS FOB MATCH RACE. The directors of Belmont Park have been reported as having made an offer to owner Howard for a match race against Cravat, to be staged at Belmont Park this fall. The distance would be one and one-quarter miles, the horses to carry equal weights. Town-send B. Martin, owner of Cravat, is said to be agreeable to such a meeting, and owner Howard, with the knowledge that his horse easily defeated Cravat in the Hollywood Gold Cup, may consent to the match. As mile and one-quarter races at Belmont are started from a chute and are around but one turn, instead of two as at Hollywood Park, Cravats admirers are of the opinion that the son of Sickle would have a fine chance to take the measure of the foreigner at the Long Island course. With the running of the Aloha Handicap and the supporting bill Saturday afternoon, Hollywood Park will close its gates for an indefinite period. Until the California Horse Racing Board has decided how the winter and summer dates in southern California will be divided if at all, the re-opening announcement for the Inglewood course must be held up. The majority seem to believe that the track will be in operation again during the coming winter, however. With Saturdays card, Hollywood Park will have completed forty-six racing days this summer.
