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Barbizon Barbizon Has Has Nine Nine Rivals Rivals in in Kent; Kent; Balmoral Balmoral Feature Feature to to Good Good Gesture Gesture Vigorously Ridden By Jockey Church Son of Count4 Fleet Defeats Yield as Pomace Runs Third In Seven-Furlongs Offering By Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON PARK, Homewood, 111., May 31. Good Gesture, a five-year-old son of Count Fleet, who races in the interests of Jack Johnston, vice-president of Sportsmans Park and Mr. and Mrs. Dave Feld-man, owners of the Blossom Stable, registered at a good price in the feature race here this afternoon. Good Gesture, winner of the Inaugural Handicap at Sportsmans Park, paid 1.80" in defeating Yield by three and one-half lengths. Despite his margin, jockey Ken Church was larruping Good Gesture with vigor "until the final few yards, then rode him out. The distance was seven furlongs and Good Gesture, claimed in Florida last winter for 5,000, ran it in 1:24. The race. was marred somewhat due to the fact that Thievery went partially in the-air at the start and was off poorly. The colt, ridden by Baird, did manage to get to the front at the halfway mark, however, but was used up from his early efforts and finished last. Good Gesture was also required to overcome some difficulty. Moving up on the inside nearing the far turn, he was required to ease back momentarily, then he found an opening on the stretch turn to repel Pomace and was not in danger in the last furlong. - 1 1,468 Patrons on Hand The attendance on a cloud v jcmt warm afternoon was 11,468. Jockey Raymond Camp, who doesnt get too many mounts around here, came through with a couple of winners in the early races. The veteran rode the two-year-old Feather Star to a score in the third and came back to take the fifth with the ; four-year-old Jeans Pride. j Jeans Pride was meeting a small band of sprinters in a six-furlong race and Camp rated her behind Man of Quest, the odds-on choice, until, fairly well into the stretch. Then she went to the front to score easily while On the Job beat Man of Quest for second place. Feather Star clashed vith seven other juveniles in her race and she, too, came from fairly well out of it to best Free Choice in the five and one-half furlongs dash. Each of Camps mounts paid liberally. The Daily Double paid 59.60 when First Fair, with Doug Dodson up, finished in front of ten others in the opener and President Ryan, ridden by Tony Skoronski, came down the rail to take the second. The opener was at five and one-half furlongs and the second at one mile. Twelve maiden three-year-olds tangled in the fourth and Nuclear War, with Dave " Erb aboard, was the one to graduate at the six-furlong distance.
