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OFFER OF 4,000 FOB OCEAN BOUND. New York. June 22. — It is a good Indication that the turf is convalescing rapidly when a horse owner rejects, with a laugh, an offer of 4,000 for a two year old illy. But that is what Woodford Clay, "the young Kentuckian. did yesterday when George Odom said he would give that amount for Ocean Bound, the big two-year-old daughter of Star Shoot — Flving Ship that subsequently won the Astoria Stakes. It further develops that Mr. Clay was offered 4. MR for the filly immediately after her victory. While under existing conditions this wag a big price, it was not sufficient inducement to make the owner part with bis crack filly. Ocean Bound is well engaged during the season and is supreme among her own age and sex. She was inspected by many horse men after the race and veteran Peter Wimmer de dared she looked more like .Miss Woodford than any fillv he ever saw.
