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p V -, ** i,. .o j || j, .. ,, ■, ti _. an j. y jj ,j n -, " ., J ,■ " _. = in _. J i, jj _j | s J „ be y j j is t i, ,, to DARLING AGAIN TRIUMPHS WILLIAMS FILLY CONTINUES HER SUCCESSFUL CAREER AT JACKSONVILLE TRACK. Carries 120 Pounds to Victory in Florida Juvenile Stakes — Starter Brown in Poor Form at the Barrier. Jacksonville. Fla.. April 9. — R. D. Williams handsome tilly. Darling, added another to her extensive string of victories at Monorelf by winning the Florida Juvenile Stakes, the feature event al the program ottered this afternoon. On Wednesday Darling captured the Fountain of Youth Stakes, in which she shouldered 120 pounds, the same weight that she carried today. In her race this afternoon Darling showed a great flight of speed. She ran the first three-eighths in ::."« and the half mile in 47. exeelb nt showing with such an impost as she had. Behind Darling were Clay. Iutis des Cognets. Miss Von del Ilodeu and Sir Kearney. The start was a poor one. Sir Kearney -being left the the post. As a natter id fact, starter Browns work at the barrier during the afternoon was exceedingly had. In the fifth race Hoffman left the harrier to a Hying start and opened up a tremendous lead in the first eighth. The result was that the race was a procession all the way. Spellbound, the second choice, was as good as left. Five favorites won and the books ■astatesd extremely heavy losses. Jockey Wilson was fined 00 and suspended for the remainder of the meeting for beating the Imrrier with Hoffman, and jockey Deavenport was set down or the remainder of the meeting for all but his stable for breaking through the barrier with Ltsta the opening dash. Hoffman reduced the track record for a mile and a sixteenth by three-fifths of a Serosal when he ran the distance in 1:4C JL At a meeting of the Southern Jockey Tub held this morning G. Y. Barnes was ruled off. together with the horse Barnsdale. The ease of trainer Jaeger was held ovt r, while H. Van By was restored to rood standing. _ , Darlings record to date is seven firsts and a second out of eight starts. The stable of R. L. Thomas was shipped from here tonight. This stable will race at Aqueduct, then ship to Canada. It was reported here this afternoon that the schedule of dates for the Canadian circuit would probablv something like this: Toronto. May 21 to June 4; Montreal. June 4 to June 1S: Hamilton. June 21 to July 2: Fort Krie. July 4 to Julv 16: Windsor. Julv to July ."0: Fort Krie. July IS to July :;» : Miou-treal. August 27 to September 10: Tftronto. Soptem-l er 17 to iSeptemlier 24: Hamilton. September 27 October lO: Windsor. October 10 to October 22.
