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Show 0UT5IDEH IS SURPRISE !l BIGJUNDIGAP Kentucky Classic Goes to King Gorin, Better Than, Twenty to One in the Betting. LOL'ISVILLE, Ky., June 2. The 4-year-old Transvaal-Ethel Simpson colt,. King Gorin, owned by R. Ij. Baker & Co. of Lexington, Ky., under a masterful ride by Jockey Mack Garner and favored by a light impost of 10S pounds, won the fifth renewal of the Kentucky handicap at Douglas park here today by a neck from John W. Schorr's 3-year-old Broomstick colt Cudgel. Half a length back was Andrew An-drew Miller's Roamer, which made his third trv for the event. Boots, coupled In the betting with Ed Crump, as the A. K. luaeomber entry, finished fourth, beaten for the show money by two lengths. Old Rosebud, the 9 to 5 favorite, and Opportunity Oppor-tunity finished in the ruck after setting a terrific paco for half a mile. The time of 2:04 l- for the mile and a quarter was remarkable, considering the condition of the track, which was lumpy and slow. King Gorin had to be hard-ridden to win. Turning into the homo stretch he went into the lead with Cudgel and Roamer following, beads apart. The 1-G pounds apparently was too much for the latter against two lightweighted colts. Boots came from ninth into fourth place and behind him finished Hodge. Colonel Vennle, Embroidery, Ellison, Old Rosebud, Rose-bud, Opportunity and Ed Crump in the order named. King Gorin was only considered as a starter after his stable mate, Pit, Jr., had met with an accident preventing him from heing sent to the post. Ho was practically prac-tically neglected in the betting, a $2 parimntuel ticket on him paying $43.o0 to win, J21.10 for the place and $7.50 for show. The stake was worth 512,200 to the winner. Hourless Wins Withers, y BKOIOXT RACE TRACK, -K. Y., June 2. Twenty thousand wildly enthusiastic, spectators cheered August Belmont's good colt Hourless, which swept home a 5 to 2 winner of the Withers race for 3-year-olds, the feature of today's racing at Belmont park. The race was won by Hourless in a driving: finish from H. P. Whitnev's Rickety and H. H. Hewitt's Skeptic. It was only in the closing yards of the one-mile journey that the Belmont colt proved its supremacy. Camp Fire, the favorite, was a poor fourth. |