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PATRONAGE DISAPPOINTS BIG FALLING OFF FEOH OPENING DAY AT JACKSONVILLE Disinclination of Owners to Start Their Horses Imme ¬ diately After Trip South Responsible for Light Fields Three Favorites Are Successful Jacksonville Fla Novemlicr 25 There was a decided railing off In tlic attendance at Moncrief Park tliis afternoon This too in spite of racing uilitinis that wore tlic next thins to erfect The light card and tin advance of the admission Too to 2 may have been resjxmsihle for this although it has been the rule at winter meetings for tlie patron age lo fall ofT during the days immediately follow in culngThere tin o culng There art plenty of horses here anil good ones o Imt their owners are permitting them to recu Iterale after their trip south While the fields this afternoon were small still they were evenly matched and a majority of the races furnished stirring con ¬ tests with short margins separating the first two at the end endFrancis Francis J Ions scored his first victory of the meeting when Lady Ormicant beat Planutess a nose in Hie ojMning dash Lady Ormicant only succeeded in getting up iu the last stride strideThe The feature a mile condition affair which was run as the fourth race went to the Schorr colt John Reardon which won easily from Saudrian Favor ¬ ites won three races the successful choices being Lady Ormicant Jot Gaitcns and John Keardon KeardonThe The biggest disappointment of the afternoon was furnished by Norbitt an oddson favorite in the Mcond race This horse a pi tea red to climb and seem ¬ ingly did not fancy the cuppy going goingGeromlo Geromlo who had the mount on Summer Night in tht second race is the same lad who rode under the name of Diamond at Norfolk and Piinlico His right name is V Oerondo OerondoAmos Amos Turney and Benny Vincent are expected from Lexington tomorrow with their stables Mr Turney is bringing down eleven horses In former y nars UiB T4iruey horse liav wintered al their owner farm in Kentucky but this year he decided to racingIt try his hand at winter racing It C Martin is cxpectid from Latouia with his string while Harry Rites wired that he had left Baltimore with the horses that he is handling for M J Cromwell The fast sprinter Tim Pippin is iu the lattcrs string stringJockey Jockey Guy Kuril was suspended for a week by tin slewirds for rough riding in the fifth race It was Burns who was responsible for the crowding on the far turn and it is supposed that this was rcsi on Hilile for the accident in which Tubal and Mon Ami MI Tubal broke his shoulder when he went down and was destroyed Clement the lad who rode1 him was shaken up pretty badly but Mon Ami and Jockey McCabe escaped unharmed
