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FIRST PREMIUM IN FRONT. E1 Ki SPEEDY TEXAS SPRINTER TAKES MAIN RACE AT CITY PARK IN STYLE. a tii the Mollie Montrose Makes Her First Start of the Year and Runs Unplaced — Prince Ahmed Defeats Toy Boy. 1 1 •"• ■ ti 1 1 Sew Orleans. I. a.. .January 27. — First Premium, at c odds df 1 to 7. was the only favorite that WWW 2 -form players at City lark today. Even his victory :» ■■ vas in. I Hm easy tiling that his backers looked for. 4 Not tor being forced to ride hi in out to stall off Lucky Mh»| challenge. There was decided improvement in the going, and in with it came an iiii|»roveinent In the sport. Chart were hut few scratches, and the fields in ail nl of the races were evenly balanced. Five of the winners bad to stand hard drives to win. and Xotter had the mounts on three of them. _ Outside of the seven MHH handicap the lace 5 ■ ! that attracted the mast attention was the third, j 1 in which some of the best sprinters racing here ibis winter were entered. The Texas colt. Toy Boy. had the call, but he failed to make good, although In showed keen -peed and led his opponents until ■ in the last fifty yards before he succumbed to a Iriiieo Ahmed. The speedy Mollie Montrose, a great tl tavorite with local race-goers last season, was niakint: l lie:- first appearance of the winter in this race, and B showed a flash of the sensational speed she so ti often displayed here last winter by breaking from is i-belliBd and overhauling the leaders and leading by ti ~n length when entering the Homestretch. Mollie at a Mont roue was undoubtedly short, for she tired badly 1-an.l was swerving over to the outside rail at the h end. Jockey Louis Smith rode his first winner of tin $ meeting when lie captured the opening race with the two year-old filly. Nasturtia. She is one of the G speediest fillies that has been shown here and ran t the fastest race of the winter when she covered 4 the three furlongs ill M#. : The sie. phi base furnished a -cries of mishaps. four of the nine starters coming to grief at some ? Mage of ihe trip. The field jumped well until at tfe liftb jump, where Captain Jarrel bolted and n carried McAllister through one of the wings. Then s Batter, who bad lost one of his stirrups at the see- olid jump, tumbled off of Call. Woodsing. after I racing close up with the leaders, made a bad land- t iug at the eighth jump and fell. The finish re suited in a hard drive between Dacra. Mixup and I Jim Hut ton. the loni.er coining from behind and : winning by a scant length after a sharp struggle. t Houbt came from behind in the seventh race and beat Bean Bruininel a length, he latter dashed to the front directly alter the s.art and led until t the last twenty yards, where he began to t,re. S. U. Marsh purchased of C. I. Falterson today 1 the three-year old colt. Tackle. The price paid was B3 ii. | Wl.ib- being led from the Fair wounds course to 1 City lark today, odd Circle developed laments ami i Archie Ziinmcr asked to have the horse excused from I the atteptechase. The scratching of the aaCK caused 1 additional time for new betiinj:. Jockey Chandler, who had the mount on Captain I Jarrel. suffered a broken leg when bis mount bolted 1 through the wing at the fifth jump. Harry ami Hops" Lamb-man were visitors at City lark this afternoon.
