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I Four Freedoms Turns In Handy Five-Furlong Test Covers Distance in 1 :032/s in Move for Tropical Handicap CORAL GABLES, Fla., April 6.— With both Coward and Du Puy*s old Marriage and Mrs. Payne Whitneys Four Freedoms fit and rarin to go, there is every promise that the 0,000 Tropical Handicap, which winds up the long Florida season at Tropical Park Saturday, may see the best run-| ning of the prize. It still is considered much of a two-horse affair, between the winner of the New Orleans Handicap. Marriage, and his conqueror in The Widener, Four Freedoms, but there will be a following for Grasshopper II., who was claimed for ,500 by W. W. Crenshaw, to become one of the best horses in Florida, his most recent effort seeing him winner of the Ponce de Leon Handicap. Then there is Argonne Woods, right at the top of his form and who will carry the ■ silks of the Christopher Ranch. Others of the promised field are Sweep Swinger and : Equinox, but nothing has been accomplished by either one to attract attention. That Four Freedoms is on keen edge was shown this morning when Leigh Cotton brought him out at Hialeah and opened him up for a five-furlong move in 1:0325, which was handily accomplished. The son of Peace Chance, with former jockey Willie Collins in the saddle, stepped a first quarter in :23%, went to the three-furlong pole in :363/3, the half in AS% and the five furlongs in 1:03% and he was being eased slightly at the end of the impressive Continued on Page Two ! i 1 1 i i 1 ] Four Freedoms Turns In Handy Five-Furlong Test Covers. Distance in l:032/s in Move for Tropical Handicap Continued from Page One move. The going was not at its best and that made the trial doubly impressive. Equinox was also under saddle at Hia-leah, but he was only galloped once around the mile and a furlong oval. Marriage has shown that he is fit and ready for his best and Grasshopper n. has shown enough in his races, as has Argonne Woods, to testify to their fitness. It is generally agreed that Marriage will go to the post favorite and the jockeys engaged are Billie Thompson on Marriage, Eddie Arcaro on Four Freedoms, G. Wallace on Grasshopper II., E. Campbell on Argonne Woods, J. R. Layton on Sweep Swinger and Bobby Permane on Equinox.
