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, | | i , 1 [ j I j | H J ! j I 1 j ; 1 - j [ j j I | Ponce de Leon Handicap Attracts Grasshopper II. 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 season, as far as any share in the profits are concerned. Beginning Monday the sport is turned over to the Tropical Park Fund.j Inc., and for the final six days, winding up" with the 0,000 Tropical Handicap, the profits will go to various designated char- ity organizations. 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 i Banstar who races for W. W. Crenshaw, is at the top of the Ponce de Leon with 120 pounds as his burden. The versatile campaigner established considerable of a reputation racing over the turf course at Hia-leah and, when he was claimed from Mrs. • Tilyou Christopher for ,500 during that meeting, he proved a bargain. After moving " to the Gables course the outlander was a surprise winner over the best sprinters s in a dash of six furlongs. Grasshopper II. has the foot and he is also able to carry on a Continued on Page Sixteen ; j ! I I • i . Ponce de Leon Handicap Attracts Grasshopper II. Argonne Woods and Five Others Also in Route Race at Tropical Continued from Page One for the mile and a sixteenth, as he has demonstrated so often and will, in all probability, be the Ponce de Leon choice, Argonne Woods, who now races under the banner of Mrs. Christophers Christopher Farm, has shown a recent fitness by his score at the meeting and he is second in the weights with 115 as his burden. He is nicely treated in the handicap and is fit and ready for his best. Mrs. J. Eitin-gers Sir Marlboro, winner of the last running of the Tropical Handicap, and like Grasshopper II. and other of the best heading for the renewal, is in the Ponce de Leon under 110 pounds. While he has not shown the brilliant form of two years ago, this fellow seems sure to give a good account of himself. Others of the acceptances are T. D. Buhls Sweep Swinger, Mrs. W. Renards Mixer, William Bakers Stinging Bee and Twoses, that races for J. J. Mclntyre. Each of these has shown becoming recent form, though it is natural the chief interest in the stake is confined to Grasshopper II. Argonne Woods and Sir Marlboro.
