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Ponce de Leon Handicap I Attracts Grasshopper II. j Argonne Woods and Five Others , ! Also in Route Race at Tropical CORAL GABLES, Fla., March 31.— With the week-end racing at Tropical Park tomorrow afternoon, the Gables Racing Association really comes to the end of its ! i season, as far as any share in the profits j are concerned. Beginning Monday the sport is turned over to the Tropical Park Fund J Inc., and for the final six days, winding upj j with the 0,000 Tropical Handicap, the | | profits will go to various designated char- I j ity organizations. j For this final day of the association sport, the big event is the ,000 Ponce de Leon Handicap, a test of a mile and a sixteenth that affords an excellent public trial for the Tropical Handicap, though Four Freedoms, winner of The Widener, and old Marriage, who took the measure of Mar-Kell in the Coral Gables Handicap, are not eligible for the running. They are the "name" horses for the final big fixture of the season at the Bird Road course. Grasshopper II., the French-bred son of Banstar who races for W. W. Crenshaw, is I at the top of the Ponce de Leon with 120 j pounds as his burden. The versatile cam- I paigner established considerable of a reputation racing over the turf course at Hia-leah and, when he was claimed from Mrs. I Tilyou Christopher for ,500 during that! meeting, he proved a bargain. After moving to the Gables course the outlander was ■ surprise winner over the best sprinters in a dash of six furlongs. Grasshopper II. has the foot and he is also able to carry on Continued on Page Sixteen
