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FAVOSITES WIN FOB TAMPA BACEGOEES Tump Fla February 5 By far the largest crowd seen at the Tampa Bay track all season witnessed todays racing Spirited contests at ¬ tended the miming of each raw and those of the public fpeculatively inclined1 fared well as most of the favorites scored Kercheval a winner of he Burns Handicap scored his first brackets of the meeting when he landed the feature race a selling handicap at a mile und seventy yards for which In rifled an oddson choice He displayed some of Ills oldtime form by coming with a great rush through the last quarter after having trailed the early pace Incidentally It marked the first time that he lias been a starter in a race with selling conditions conditionsM M J Daly scored a double with Pio Pico and Nebulosus They were both ridden by the iucom petcut Wrispen and had to be much the best to take down the purses in their respective races Cloisteress in winning the fifth race established a new furlongsThe track record of 103 for five furlongs The Shields contingent tried for two purses with Jack Dennerlen and Joe Gaitens but only succeeded with the first named Joe Gaitens proved a dismal failure and did not even get placed Another dls apiKHiitment was Our Nugget backed to the exclu slou of the other starters in the second race Presiding racePresiding Judge Dunne was at his post during the afternoon having returned from Jacksonville this morning He was greatly impressed with the rac ¬ ing at Moucreif Park and while there had promises from many owners that they would ship a goodly iiunilMT of horses here during the coming week or so General Manager Strode also returned James returnedJames McLaiighlin Jr shipped here last night with eight horses J S Ward will reship a con ¬ signment of four and W Woodard Jr will return with Karl of Richmond Several jockeys are also dm to arrive tomorrow J S Davis was among todays arrivals with Ronart and others othersAdditional Additional evidence reached the judges relative to the claiming of Rebel Queen and reconsidering their intention of allowing the claim to stand they ordered the mare returned to F P Wilson It was shown that IS Travers was not the rightful owner of Frank Flesher at the time the claim was made madeJockey Jockey Cole was suspended for ten days by the starter for disobedience at the post Claude postClaude Jones who is interested with Smith Colbv departed for Havana today with a view to induce the municipality to appropriate 10000 to ¬ ward the race meeting which it is intended to open some time this month in the Cuban capital
