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NEW ORLEANS TRACK TALK. "Curley" Brown was at the track Thursday, and there was some surprise expressed that he should be allowed on the grounds, on account of his having been ruled off for life by the Now-port officials. The case of Mulholland, in San Francisco, was token by the New Orleans officials as a precedent, and they decided not to enforce the rule this year. However, they will have no choice in the matter after January 1, as a new rule of the turf congreBe, passed last fall, and which will go in force after tho first of next year, declares that any track harboriig or allowing on its grounds any ruled-off person shall become outlawed itself. Captain Bees did a little effective business yesterday by suspending A. J. Wallace, the owner and trainer of the sturdy mudlark, George Lee, pending an investigation of the suspicious running of the horse in his last two races. Jockey Sheppard, who rode George Lee December 9, was also suspended pending investigation. George Eneuker, owner of Satan, was given a fine for inconsistency in the uso of spurs on his colt. Captain Bees can be depended on to straighten out a good many gnarly racing kinks before the New Orleans meeting closes. Said a lady to her frirnd in the grand stand Friday as the horses wero filing out on their way to the post in the third race: "Oh ! just look at that splendid-looking grey horse 1" referring to Pat Cleburne. "Im jnst going to put a bat on him because his color is just too lovely for anything, and his jockeys jacket is so becoming!" And she did, and he won. New Orleans Picayune. Pat Cleburne will soon make his appearance in the jamping events. He was schooled over the Full Course twico on Thursday morning and went over it onco Friday morning and performed very creditably. With the speed which he has displayed on the flat he ought to cut quite a figure over the obstacles, providing he can carry weight. J. W. Colt, an eastern turfman and membsr of the Genosseel Hunt Club, purchased, Thursday, from Frank Frisbie, tho three-year-old colt Chancery, by Chanco Outscrambla, and has turned him over to Johnny McCafferty to train. Mr. Colt intends to use him as a hunter. W ood Hoffman, who trains Molo and Loben-gula, has decided to let up on the former for a while, and give him a chance to freshen up. Molo has been on the go almost constantly since the opening of tho Newport spring meet ing, and is certainly entitled to a rest. Ex-Jcckeys Willie Ham and Johnny Lamley, owners of Mizpah and Benneville, the two best horaos of the older division which have shown thus far at the meetkg, intond to take them east next season. Mizpah is, or will be, entered in the Brooklyn Handicap. Alexs race Friday was in the naturo of a trial for tho Preliminary Derby next week. He made a very good showing, but only carried 103 pounds.
