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REPORT CHEERS HORSEMEN WELCOME RUMORS AS TO EASTERN RACING RECEIVED AT MONCRIEF PARK. Tort Worth Only Favorite to Score On a Card Devoted Chiefly to Non-Winners Via Octavia Takes Measure of Governor Gray. Jacksonville, Fla., February 17. Friday is usually Jin off day at Moncrief Park and it has been the rule with the management this winter to provide races on this day for horses that have not won during the meeting. The conditions of a majority of todays races called for non-winners since November 23. and while fields that lacked class were brought together, still they were evenly matched and the result was well-fought contests and, close liuishes. In five of the six races the winners were first home by the shortest of margins. - Fort Worth was the only winning favorite, but two of the other winners. Via Octavia and Miss Marjorie,, were well-backed second choices. Miss .Marjorie was the only winner that had more than :i neck to spare at the finish. The feature race was the fourth, an allowance affair, for three-year-olds, at three-quarters of a mile, and it went to Via Octavia, which beat the odds-on favorite, Governor Gray, a neck. The winner was well ridden by jockey McCahey. Only one of the winners was boosted. After Fort Worth beat Corinth a head in the second race, Louis Tauber bid him up 00 over his entered price, but Sam Louis protected the colt and bought him in at 0.-,. Fred W. Gerhardy, secretary ,of the Jamestown Jockey Club, announced that Mars Cassidy had been engaged to do the starting at the Norfolk mooting this spring. Jockey" A. Burton arrived from Tampa this morning and will remain for the rest of the meeting. Judge Monck of Hamilton, Canada, was an arrival today. He. is on his way to Palm Beach and , Klopped ofit witness an aternQon.s,.sportat .Mon- ericr. . Orbicular broke down in his last start and will be retired to the Ktild at bis owners -farm in Texas. JnUien .CarrutJiQiK.tacconipanied by his son George, wns nYein--at--Mftpcrief this afternoon. He is on hls-VTto southern Florida on a fishing trip. Jockey J. Held wrote from Juarez that he" would lojivc -Juarez for Jacksonville next week. Jockey Goose whs at the track this afternoon fat the first tinie since his accident of last week, when he sufTered a broken collarbone as a result of his fall from Silas Grump. A telegram to Thomas C McDowell from a horseman in Xew York to the effect that the Hart-Agnew law would probably be declared unconstitutional, was received with much joy by the horsemen racing here. In the event of racing being resumed on the Xew York tracks a number of owners who contemplated going to Canada or Kentucky, will ship to the metropolitan tracks. Frank J. Nolan, owner of the Bevcrwyck Stable, went to St. Augustine this afternoon, but will return tomorrow to see his big horse. Sir John Johnson, start in his first stake engagement at Moncrief. Mr. Nolan added greatly to the comfort of the horsemen by telling thein that the New York racing situation had taken on a brighter aspect and predicting that the racing would come back just as good as it. has ever been in the history of the turf in this country. Recent work-outs at Moncrief Park. Weather clear, track fast. Agnar Seven-eighths in 1:33. Altadena Five-eighths in 1:04. All lied Three-quarters in 1:17. Was full of run and eased up. Altadena Five-eighths in 1:04. Amanda Lee Three-quarters in 1:1S. lias all her speed. Ainericaneer Half mile in r0. Archduke Three-quarters in 1:17. Aronduck Three-quarters in 1:21. Aunt Kate Seven-eighths in l:32j. Works along nicely. Aylmer Mile and an eighth in 2:04. Beau Brummel Three-quarters in 1:19. Bodega Five-eighths in 1:01. Looks ready. Bodkin Three-quarters in 1:185. Belle Mawr Five-eighths in 1:03. Has all her speed. Console Mile in 1:47. Was well in hand throughout the work. Oaiiopian Half mile in 52. Casque Half mile in 49. Has all his speed. Camel Seven-eighths in 1:34. Coining to his best form. Dr. Barkley Seven-eighths in 1:35. Dell Half mile in 49s. Donau Five-eighths in 1:05. Detroit Half mile in 50. Edda Half mile in 52. Lye White Half mile in 50J. Was under a stiff pull. Golden Pearl Three-eighths in 30.:. Handrunning Three-quarters in 1:10: Hildas Sister Five-eighths in 1:0S. La U .Mexican Five-eight lis in 1:04. Mark Antony II. Half mile in 54. Mindinette Five-eighths in 1:05. Minta Mile in 1:54. Premier Half mile in 51. Sister Florence Half mile in 57. Star Blue Three-quarters in 1:1S. Third Kail Mile in 1:4!. Working Lad Three-eighths in 3C-.
