Show AZUCAR PROVES Big Chestnut Gelding Pays As Long Shot By Dy ROBERT MYERS Associated Press Sports Writer LOS ANGELES Jan 20 20 AzUcar stout-hearted stout steeplechase ex run runner n. n ner ncr Is b. b no longer the forgotten horse at S Santa Sita ta Anita park Fred Alger Jr big hiI chestnut gelding which won the rich SanS Santa Santa San San- S ta Ia Anita handicap last at year ear and then dropped Lute Into the tho Shad shadows ws WI is J. back as proven by a stunnIng stunning stun stun- ning victory In the San Felipe ban handicap i p Saturday One ne minute before the race Azucar Azu Azu- car was a and no no bet bettor r than a 20 to 1 I shot The highly touted Mrs John Hay Whitney horse horae Singing Wo Wood d II IL C C. Hatchs Hatch's I Arid Ariel Cross Soon Over of the Greentree Greentree Green Green- tree stable and Marv these Marv-these these were verc the favorites despite th the S f fact ct that thai less ess than a ye year r ago Azucar paid pale Owner Alger a check for for around I winners winner's purse of the big handIcap Azucar won the s San n Felipe by ahead a ahead ahead head after a g gallant stretch drive paid laid his backers fo for a 2 2 ticket t a and d ran the thO mile in Ina a fraction fraction frac- frac tion lon over the thc track record Top Row low set the set the mark last Christmas at 1 minute 35 5 4 5 seconds Azucar Az car did it in ml 1 minute 36 seconds This means means Azucar must be given careful thought in the second running running running run run- ning of ot the handicap February Febuary Feb- Feb uary 22 He lo carried pounds In n the San Felipe Felipe- and has only 3 more ore to pack in the February 22 race ace A A. G G. Vanderbilt's mighty ery cry ry the Brookmead stables stable's Cavalcade Cavalcade Cavalcade Caval Caval- cade Mrs Silas B B. Masons Mason's Head Play lay and C. C P. P Palmers Palmer's Flamenco have been given top rating over Azucar Discovery whose best workout best workout to tolate date late over the mile was 1 minute 37 31 7 5 4 5 seconds must carry pounds in the big race Head Play with a trial 1 1 minute 41 1 1 5 3 seconds behind carries and nd the great Cavalcade which did the he n mile le three days ago ago in 1 minute minute min rain ute 41 n. seconds was assigned Flamenco which breezed in at 1 minute 43 5 2 25 second carries pounds Azucar's win Saturday was wall achieved in hi much much- th the same way he be pulled tho the Santa Anita AnIt race raco race out out of the bag last lut year The year old horse an English steeplechase jumper b before foe Alger wealthy Detroit sportsman made him ilm into a race horse hors came came from behind to take the classic event of the he se season on His victory was also the classic upset of the se season son sea son tor lor Azu Azucar zu ar hadn't been figured to finish In n the money The name Azucar In Spanish means sw sweet et sugar |