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MUD RUNPRS GET CHANCE RACING AT MONCRIEF PARK IS OVER A DEEP AND HEAVY TRACK. Ed Trotter Scores a Double With Dr. Holzberg and Live Wire Worth Shows Great Mud-Running Ability in the Two-Year-Old Race. Jacksonville. Fla., March 27.- The races; at Mon-oricf lark this afternoon were run over a deep and heavy truck. It was the first time during the meeting that the niud runners really had a chance and some of the winner; came from most unexpected quarters. A majority of them had plenty to spare al the finish and only two favorites won. The .heavy rains of Sunday night proved golden showers for Ert-ward Trotter, as the change in track conditions en-ahleil him to take a couple of purses. He sent his lirst winner in a couple of months to the post when Dr. Holzberg captured the third race, and he followed it up hy furnishing the winner in the succeed-in;; race in Live Wire, which made a runaway victory of it by loading all the way and heating Plate Class and Tom Hay ward. Worth, a good-looking colt hy Knight of the Thistle, running In the colors of .T. C. Gallaher, spreadeagied his company in the two-year-old race. Worth showed that lie was thoroughly at home in the heavy going hy running away from the others and winning in a canter hy eight lengths. The closest finish of the afternoon came with the running of the fiftli race, in which the 5ft to 1 shot. .John Patterson, got up in the linal strides to heat .1. R. Robinson a neck. There were several new arrivals from various points, among them E. It. Rradiey, wb came from Palm Reach, where the tourist season came to a elose on Saturday. Steeplechase jockey W. Allen will leave here some day this week for Aiken, S. C, to. join the stable of Thomas Hitchcock, Jr. Allen will ride for. the Hitchcock stable this year, haying severed his. connection with O. R. Tompkins. J. Mahoney will ship The Squire to Norfolk tq- tuartacr-- - . .3Jr. lfcGitpt. P. ar. Walker today purchased the two-year-old Maxenlius of John V. Pangle. For striking jockey Knerner with his whip during the running of the Live Wire race, jockey T. Wilson was suspended by the judges for the. remainder OC the meeting. His employer, J. W. Schorr, will he permitted to ride the boy in the Derby. The officials today handed out a ruling denying the privileges of the track to Matt Dooley and W. Shields. It is understood that both men left here without settling all their obligations. Two Derby eligibles, Dr. Duenner and Star Charter, were given work-outs in the mud this morning. The former worked a mile and an eighth in 2:04 with his weight up and seemed to like the going. Star Charter did not seem to like the muddy track ami after going the first half in 52 quit badly. The Nigger was also worked and showed a decided liking for the going. U. D. Williams lias annonhced that he will ship Ids string of horses to his farm in Oklahoma after the close of the Moncrief meeting. Mr. Williams has a number of yearlings at his farm, and will have a good hand of two-year-olds for next seasons racing.
