Jesse Samuel Hastings
Kentucky Post, Friday, 5 May 1944, page 13
SOLDIER FROM BELLEVUE NOW IN OAHU-Pvt. Jess Hastings, formerly of 167 Fairfield avenue, Bellevue, now at Oahu, T H, wrote the Sports Department the other day in quest of the answer on who won the race that was run at River Downs between Sea Biscuit and Mucho Gusto. Pvt. Hastings contended to his buddies that the race was won by Mucho Gusto and that it was a $2000 claiming race.
Well we found out for him. Ben Dahlman, veteran Cincinnati Post authority on "hoss flesh" gave us the answer. Oct 3, 1936 at River Downs: Sea Biscuit won third place money in the Western Hills handicap and Oct 17 he again ran third in the Eastern Hills handicap, receiving $200 in purse money in each instance. It was not a claiming race Mucho Gusto's record was not available.