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LITTLE LIGHTER IN FRONT TAKES THE THANKSGIVING HANDICAP AT NEW ORLEANS UNEXPECTEDLY. Rain Again Mars the Going and Causes Much Scratching Marbles Rewards Her Backers. New Orleans, La., November 2S. For the first time since the opening day there was a genuine racing air about City Park today. The attendance, despite the threatening weather, exceeded the expectations of the management. Programs were sold out long before the running of the opening race. The heavy rain of last-night again put the track to the bad ami the withdrawals during the afternoon were numerous. Only- twenty-one books, the smallest number up to the present, were in line and they had a busy time of it in administering to the wants of those eager to wager. The Thanksgiving Handicap, at a mile and a sixteenth, having a net value of .,SS0 to the winner, was won by Little Lighter, an added starter, from Plantland, the favorite, Dashaway, another added starter, taking third place. The race as a contest was spectacular all the way, Faust and Plantland making a stiff pace during the early stages, but at the stretch turn Plantland parted company with Faust and appeared a certain winner. In the final furlong. Little Lighter, showing sudden improvement in a brief space of time, ranged along, side of the favorite and in the final drive jlrew out to win by a comfortable margin. Jockey Minder was criticized for Plantlands failure, many claiming that had he iiot subjected him to the early keen pressure of- racing Faust into defeat, he would have landed a handy winner. Favorites fared badly in five races, the exception proving Marbles, in the third, which beat out Miss Delaney. Nicol handled her superbly and the May fillys victory was mainly due to his skillful ride. Nicol also won with Platoon in the fifth. He got him away flying and made every post a winning one. The poor showing in this race of Momentum, the favorite, was due to his poor send-off. As a matter of fact starter Dades work "was decidedly off today, many of the best-hacked horses suffering by poor starts. Conville, in the closing race at odds-on, might just as well have remained in the stall for all the chance he had when the start came. The closest finishes came in the second and last races. Hughes beat out Stellaland a nose in the second and Granada lasted just long enough in the last to win from Sister Polly by a similar distance. Jockey Minder cut across in front soon after the start in the handicap and was given a sharp reprimand by the judges for his action. Jockey Nicol was suspended for ten days by the starter for disobedience at the post. Several days ago he was fined .0 for the same offense. E. It. Bradley lias telegraphed that he lias shipped ten horses to be raced here. They are expected to arrive tomorrow. E. S. Gardner has shipped a consignment here from Nashville in charge of trainer J. K. Frayling. In the string is the fast sprinter Charlie Eastman. O. G. Parke will arrive tomorrdw with seven head from Texas. Oots Bros., with nine, C. E. Rowe, with two, including Allowmaise and C. Strauss, with two, got in today from Lexington, Ky. Several carloads of horses from San Antonio arrived last night. They are small consignments owned by Mrs. S. It. Lawrence, Pons and Holder, S. Louis, L. V. Bellew, Lamb Bros., J. T. Strite, Fisher and Hall, C. II. Diebold and J. Erb. II. Richards and Fulton and McDowells horses were arrivals today from New York. E. J. Gildersleeve. brought from St. Louis the horses Chief Millikin, Alsono and Penrhyn.
