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MUDDY TRACK MARS SPORT AT OAKLAWN. Aaron J. is Left at tho Post Starter Snyder Has an Off Day. Hot Springs, Ark., March 7. The racing at Oaklawn today produced poor sport. The card in its original state was a good one, but a heavy rain last night left the track muddy and caused many withdrawals. Then the starting was bad and there was much rough riding. The second race saw a straggling start in which Elksino had much the best of it. Aaron J., the favorite, was left at the inist iu the fourth race, and there was a jam just after the rise of the tape in the fifth race. The failure of Aaron J to get away was due more to the inactivity of Jockey J. Kelly than to fault on the part of starter Snyder. Kelly is a sleepy-headed lad. The backers of the horse grumbled loudly. About seven out of every ten people here are of the opinion that Aaron J. can beat anything in this neck of the woods at five-eighths or three-quarters of a mile. After the fifth race jockeys Mclntyre and Scoville, who rode Idalia and Mike Sutton, claimed foul against Mediant, the winner, ridden by Radtke, but the judges did not deem the interference sufficient to warrant a disqualification and let the result stand as the horses finished. K. Trotter claimed the beaten favorite San Primo out of the last race for ,5.00. He also purchased Scalplock for 900 during the morning from II. T. Batcheler, who claimed him yesterday from Chinn and Forsythe for 00. Several horses reached here today from Los Angeles. Tom Walker is due to come in with eleven hcrscs tomorrow. Charles Miers, business manager of the Condon Interests, arrived today from Louisville and returned immediately. He stated that work ou Douglass Park was progressing favorably.
