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FAUNTLEROY MAKES DEBUT MLAUGHLIN DERBY CANDIDATE WINS AT FIRST ASKING IN FLORIDA Good Colt Had Not Raced in Several Months Be Because cause of Sickness but Finds It Easy Easyto to Beat Milton B Jacksonville Fir March 7 With a big improve ¬ ment in track conditions came a corresponding im ¬ provement in the sport at Moncrelf Park this after ¬ noon Good contests with driving finishes predomi ¬ nated Hagman Ben Double Earls Court and Cam ¬ paigner scored as favorites James McLaughlin furnished two winners Campaigner and Fauntleroy The latter one of the prominent Derby eligibles was making his first appearance of the meeting after an absence from the races of almost four months Polls and Oghwaga were withdrawn leaving only two to go in the race Fauntleroy and Milton B The latter was a 1 to favorite over McLaughlins colt but when it came to the running Fauntleroy held him safe at all stages made all of his own pace and won easily The race was much the best of the day from a time standpoint and the result shows that this good threeyearold suffered no ill effects from his recent illness illnessJ J iMcCormick formerly connected with the stable of P T Cliinn purchased the good threeyearold Frank Purcell from E K West this morning Owing morningOwing to the death of a brother of R L Thomas Polls and Stringency were withdrawn from the races in which they were entered today Mr Thomas left for Kentucky on Friday last when notified oC his brothers illness illnessThe The stables owned by F Gering S T Hopkins and morningPoor C Hawke arrived from Tampa this morning Poor reports have reached here from Pensacola They are to tlie effect that only fifty stalls have been built and that the course Is far from complete I T Chiim shipped the stallion Acrobat to thu Canadian National Bureau of Breeding at Montreal this morning Acrolwt was donated to the bureau by Kichard F Carman CarmanAlbert Albert Simons was again in the limelight at Mon creif Park this afternoon After Campaigner won the fourth race he ran him up 400 over his entered price of 1500 1500Several Several horses broke down last week among them Cartilage Horace E and El Dorado The latter waa sold to the breeding bureau while Horace E had only changed hands the morning before his last race Clint De Witt was deluged with offers from local horse dealers for Carthage but he refused to dispose of his old breadwinner Carthage is responsible for all the horses now in my barn said De Witt and the old fellow has beeu too good to me to be abused when his usefulness as a racer has passed I just couldnt stand coming down here next winter and find him pulling a hack or huckster wagon I will take him north witii me and tind a good home for him with some gentleman who wants a nice saddle horse horseHarry Harry Shaw has received word from the registrar of the Jockey Club that the name of Wilfred Gerde has l een accepted as a substitute for Country Gen ¬ tleman the name bestowed on the Sir Dixon Home ¬ spun twoyearold colt by his breeder E CCowdin Jockey CCowdinJockey D Lloyd who has been out of the saddle for some months has arrived from Mt Sterling Ky and Intend to resume riding again Lloyd met with a painful accident at Blue Bonnets Montreal last fall in which several of his ril were broken A brokenA United States secret service man has taken owner C W Powell to Des Moiiies la Powell is charged with being implicated iu tlie fake footrace wrestling and horserace scandal on account oC which the United States authorities have somts ninetytwo persons miller indictment Powell it is alleged furnished a couple of liorses to the framers The horses that Powell has been racing here Oberon Piute and Snow Ball will be sold in this Dad dock of the local racing association to satisfy u mortgage PonsTills held by SecretaryTreasurer Pons Tills week the features will be tlie Tropical Selling Stakes for threeyearolds at six furlongs and the Ocalit Handicap for threeyearolds and over at u mile anil an eighth Among the fiftyone oligiblea for the Tropical Stakes are some of the 1 est three yearolds in local training Flying Squirrel is one of Minn and he is about ready to run The Thomas stable also has Polls and Carroll in this stake Thens arc thirtyseven entries in the Ocala Handicap with somis fair ones among the number numberF F J POIUJ now has the largest stable at Monereif and probably the Inst He is especially strong In the twoyearold division and everything in bis stable has won at the meeting
