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FAVORITES COSTINDETO WIN FIRST CHOICES MAKING EXCELLENT SHOWING AT MONCREIF PARK Several of More Important Owners Who Have Been BeenRacing Racing at Tampa Transfer Their Horses to toJacksonville Jacksonville Musgrave Disciplined Jacksonville Fin January 17 The success of i the favorites at Moncreif 1ark continues Three first choices won tills afternoon Im the feature race a selling handicap at one mile Ozana established a new track record for that distance by going the course in liUJ zina was an oddson favorite and heat Campaigner by half a length after making all of her wn pace Jockey Howard rode the win ¬ ners In the first and sixth races lie was forced to put up a rousing good ride to beat Otilo a neck after the latter had led all the way wayAfter After G W Burt was beaten in the third race he was claimed by J Kurt in whose name Grarnsar ran for 725 J S Ward T I Hayes and T Hatfield have rented private stalls adjacent to the track and will ship their stables here from Tampa some day this week weekJockev Jockev Page has purchased the contract that Homer Selbv hold on him and lie will leave shortly for his home in California where he will ride dur ¬ ing tha remainder of the winter winterNora Nora Emma and Eduiond Adams the best two yearolds in Green 15 Morris string are on the shelf The former shied at a roller on the track this morning and bolted into the fence while Ed moiid Adams picked up a nail a few days ago agoHob Hob Gilmore got in from Juarez this morning with Patriot PatriotJockey Jockey I Musgrave got an enforced vacation from starter Brown this afternoon He was llrst lined 25 for misbehavior at the j ost and then 25 addi ¬ tion and a suspension of two weeks for cutting across in front of his company when the break came JSH br Thomas ban been keeping in the background atMohcreif Park He is a daily attendant but rare ¬ ly emerges from his private box in the grandstand Mr Thomas looks in fairly good health and has entirely recovered from the injuries he sustained at the hands of Jockey Shilling Thomas has some goodlooking twoyearolds but trainer McDaniel Is not ovcrswcet on them I lost the best colt I ever trained when the Cesarion Miss Richmond colt died here after being unloaded from the cars said MeDauiel Last fall at Sheepshead Bay I went along slowly with this youngster and the lirst time that I let him down he showed me a furlong In 11 i5 and a quarter pulled up in 24 15 Any colt that could work a quarter in 24 was considered a youngster way above the ordinary Moncrief is the only twoyearold that we started here that we bet on and it was hard on us when he was dis ¬ qualified While 1 think that the lot I am train Ing this spring are useful enough still they do not come iii to those I handled last winter There are no Polls or Flying Squirrels among them The Thomas stable has no regular jockey at present biit It Is just possible ttat Roscoe Troxler may bo en ¬ gaged to go tip the line with McDaniel this spring Like many other stables Mr Thomas will send his horses from here to Pimlico PimlicoFauntleroy Fauntleroy is being galloped as a preliminary to preparation DerbyEd for the Derby Ed Trotter Is gathering a useful lot of horses through the claiming route Up to date he has se ¬ cured Dr Holzberg Cowen and Eyebright Besides training a stable of horses he Is making liook in the flftv iiit field Mr Trotter is making an effort to secure jockey Ganz The hitters arrangement with the St James Stable will expire in a few weeks and it is doubtful if it will be renewed renewedHenry Henry Simons is associated with Mark Uoasberg In a booking venture ventureEddie Eddie Austin who operated a big book on the western circuit for a number of years is taking the money for I Hammerschlag here hereDuring During tills week a race for twoyearolds will be given daily On Tuesday and Thursday the dis ¬ tance will be at a quarter of a mile while on other days the youngsters will be asked to go a furlong further There will be a breeders purse on Friday and on Wednesday and Saturday the feature races will lie the Confederate Ilaiidican and the Smith Hiehardson Conroy Handicap The former Is at a mile and an eighth while the latter will be a dash of seven furloncs Engelking and William King who had little ohanoe of winning here with the sort of horses they have in their stables have shipped to Tampa
