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BOCA GRANDE FAILS AGAIN i FLYING FOOTSTEPS BEATS FIZER COLT IN SPRINT AT MONCREIF. Belling Platers of Cheaper Sort Provide Ordinary Racing, but Favorites at Short Odds Are Successful. Jai baaawBbS, Fin.. April 12. — It was an ordinary card lli.it was deeided :il Moiicreif Park lliis afternoon. The fields MK made u|» f the pMW class of horses mill tame Content* resulted. The only rloae finish of the afternoon name with the running of the tin:il race. Ml bj Jliagga. which beat lore Guard a ne-k a I the .ml of a leaf and hard stretch drive. Favorites won four of the races, hut three of iio-ni wore at .mIiIs of h-ss rhatt 1 to 2. Ganz piloted tlir-- wiiii:- r*, I.iis lad is lunch the best ri.U-r left li re. and all of ids mounts came in for strong public siqqtort. im ot i ii - beneeat disappointments of the day Was the defeat of Been Grai.ih . the colt that hail lx-eii touted here all spring as a high-class racer. He was In aieii a length by Flying Footsteps, which made all of her own pace and won with something to Kparc. An excuse was offered for Boca Grandes defeat, just as upon the occasion of a poet showing in a previous i.-uv. laiilj Jackson was accused of waiting too long with him. but the general idea is that it is doubtful if Boca Grande would have finished in the money had lie lieen permit ted to have goin- along Willi Fly ing Footsteps during the first half mile. Jockey J. Howard returned this morning from CntM, where he has been spending a few weeks with his parents. Howard will leave for Lexington at the close of the local meeting. He liar been engaged to ride tin- horses at Woodford flay at Lexington. He will later report b* F. J. 1ons at Toronto and will ride during the summer for that gentleman. A special train eomprising t went. --one cars will depari Inr l.e ington and Louisville on Monday next. Mose i; Mblatt and C. H. Knebelkanio will ship to Lexington Thursday and the division of the stable that 1 .1. Paaa will race at Aqueduct will leave Im New York tomorrow.
