view raw text
SPELLBOUND TAKES STAKE ST PATRICKS DAY MARKED BY UPSETS AT MONCREIF PARK Bonnie Bard the Only Winning Favorite Well Backed Winners Benefit by Advantageous AdvantageousStarts Starts and Layers Lose Jacksonville Fla March IT Bonnie Bard alone saved the talent from a Waterloo at MonereiC Parf this afternoon The racing was unsatisfactory as several of the winners beat the gate which enabled them to make runaway affairs of their races All of them have been accorded strong support and it la doubtful if the liooks profited on the afternoons operations In the feature race the St Patrick Selling Stakes at one mile the winner turned up in Spellbound which incidentally showed consider ¬ able improvement over his previous effort Spell bound was in close pursuit or the pacemaker all the way today in the stretch overhauled the leader then stalled off challenges first from Ozana and then from Ethon and drew away in the last twenty yards to win lengthDoc by a length Doc Streett furnished the winner In the two yearold race In Vallonia which was heavily backed Vallonia made a runaway victory of it leading from start to finish finishDescomnets Descomnets victory In the fifth race enabled ap prentice IMcTaggart to graduate from the maiden ranks This l oy who is now under contract to former jockey Monte Preston is improving wonder ¬ fully and gives promise of developing into a good rider riderA A B Dade who has been doing the starting at Tampa all winter was a visitor at Moncreif Park this afternoon He left tonight for his home In Kentucky where he will remain until the opening of meetingF the Pimlico spring meeting F W Gerhardy who will act as secretary and as ¬ sociate judge at Jamestown left for Tampa tonight to secure horses for his meeting Several stables will ship from here to Jamestown among them those of J W Schorr E George and F Ligbtfoot
