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KEEN CONTESTS Df SOUTH i SELLING PLATERS PROVIDE PROGRAM OF IN ¬ TERESTING RACING AT MONCREIT PARK Bialto Takes Measure of Pantouflc Hitherto Un ¬ beaten During the Meeting Several Jockeys Disciplined by Judges and Starter Jacksonville Fla January 3 The contests were keen at Moncreif Park this afternoon The card was ordinary but the lields were well matched and good racing resulted Wellbacked horses won a majority of the races and despite the victories of two outsiders Edgely and Rialto the books gener ¬ ally reiwrted losses lossesHialto Hialto made a fine showing in the feature race a condition affair at seven furlongs in which Pantoufle was a heavilybacked favorite This mare had a clean record of four straight victories at the meet ¬ ing and local enthusiasts were beginning to regard her as invincible Today the speedy Parkview car ¬ ried Pantoulle at a terrific early clip and after the latter had gone six furlongs in 113 she began to weaken Hiulto got up in the last fifty yards and beat her out half a length King who had the mount on Hialto also rode Toll Box winner of the second race raceThere There were a number of arrivals today among them being Richard Bauer who came from New York by boat with six horses E C Taylor got in from Dallas with seven Other owners to arrive were E Blissner J Boden and J Aldrich James Brown Sol Alenberg Valentine Miley and Silver Bill III Icy also arrived arrivedJockey Jockey Gilbert was set down for a week by the starter and Whiting got two weeks l ergeu was suspended for the rest of the week for cutting across with Pantoulle and Hibernica and he got a week additional l esides a fine of 25 from the starter starterApplications Applications from a nmnl er of jockeys and train ¬ ers for licenses are being held up by the Southern Jockey Club pending reports from the Jockey Club at New York and the Canadian Racing Associations AssociationsThe The features at Moncreif Park this week will be the Lakeland Selling Stakes for threeyearolds and upward at five furlongs to be ruu Wednesday and the Capitol Handicap for threeyearolds aniLuit wardT SaturdayTom at six furlongs scheduled for Saturday Tom Shaw who has l een spending part of the winter at his home in New Orleans will be here tomorrow It is said that Shaw will not operate on the extensive scale that he did last winter in Cali ¬ fornia ami in the east last summer He is already interested in three books here snd it may be that he will not himself go m the block blockSome Some racing men contemplate taking a nm over to Cuba before the meeting here ends P T Chinn siinl his family will make the trip to Havana in February Jack Flaherty will leave the last of this month and a party made up of Joe Yeagcr John Howard Claude Kyle and several others contemplate making the trip within a few weeks weeksPatsys Patsys string of stake victories has made P S P Randolph the leading moneywinning owner
