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SPELLBOUND TAKES STAKE CONSISTENT ALBERT GELDING WINS THE TURTLE AT MONCREIF His Jacksonville Record Is Now Six Firsts and Second Out of Eight Starts Jack Parker Beats Nealon Jacksonville Fla March 23 W P Burchs con ¬ sistent gelding Spellbound added another to his list of Moncreif Park victories liy winning the Turtle Selling Stakes the feature race of the pro ¬ gram offered this afternoon Spellbound was favor ¬ ite in the race and was ridden by S Davis lie snniily played with his Held and won in a romp by four lengths His vlctorv resulted in a change of owners L M Holmes whose Elfall finished second boosting him UOO over his entered price and secur ¬ ing him for 1300 Mr Itiireh let tlie horse go be ¬ cause he has a had tendon and it has taken con ¬ siderable nursing to get him to stand training all winter Spellliounds record here this wiuter is six firsts and a second out of eight starts His vic ¬ tories include besides todays stake the St Patrick Selling Stakes and the Lake City Selling Stakes Spanish StakesSpanish Princes victory in the fifth race came only after a lot of rough riding on the jrart of J Wilson On the first turn where he cut across lo the inside with the winner he caused a bad jam in which almost all of the starters were inter ¬ fered with and Descomnets was almost put over the fence Wilson was lucky in escaping with only a weeks suspensionJack suspension Jack Parker showed a great turn of speed In the third race in which he beat the Schreiber crack Nealon The latter ran the first quarter In 23 and the half in 4CJ5 but tired in the stretch and was beaten a length Trainer Powers has probably been indulging him and the bis horse may have been a little short this afternoon afternoonW W K Sallee purchased the threeyearold Zymole of the Chelsea Stable this morning and will race him over the intermountain circuit circuitAmong Among todays arrivals from Tampa were John Shields W A Kirwan Doc Riddle W Jackson T Brysou C Reed J White J Nichols and Benny Jacobs JacobsI I Fitzgerald will arrive here tomorrow with his stable of fourteen horses horsesWilliam William Applegaie was an arrival today He came from California
