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BROUGHAM TAKES A STAKE CAPTURES THE ROSEBUD IN EASY FASHION WITH LENA LECH SECOND Blag Adds Another to His Long List of Victories Lady Almy Defeats Heine Horsemen Greatly GreatlyPleased Pleased with New York News Now Orleans La April S Interest in the fate of the racing bills which came up for a final vote in the New York senate today overshadowed that In the racing at the Fair Grounds Early in the afternoon favorable reports received from the Em ¬ pire state capital gave the horsemen hope and when the final vote was announced showing that the antiracing people had failed to gain the single vote necessary to make the measure effective joy was unbounded and horsemen spectators book ¬ makers nud the most hardened of racefollowers joined in giving vent to their enthusiasm The jubilation continued for a long time timeThe The Rosebud Stakes at five furlongs which fea ¬ tured todays card was won by Brougham in de ¬ cisive fashion from a good band of youngsters Rough riding contributed largely to his victory as Warren who rode him almost knocked down his nearest contenders in the stretch but as no com ¬ plaint of foul was made the ollicials did not take cognizance of the action The ones to suffer most by the interference were Transform and Lena Lech The latter ran a sparkling race and managed to land second place Transform however was beaten a nose for third place by Intervene Irrigator the early leader was impeded by Brougham but it is T doubtful if it made any material difference in his running runningThe The condensed history of the Rosebud Stakes is as follows Year Winner Wt Jockey Val Time Timel04Viperlne l04Viperlne 113 Fuller 1020 50i 50i1905tBertha 1905tBertha E 110 Jus Hcnsy 1095 44 lOOCJJudge Davey 113 Livingston 11265 1034 10341K 1K 7 Ziephen IIS Lloyd 1225 101 1011JOS 1JOS Brougham 115 Warren 1395101 1395101Iistance Iistance 12 mile iDlstancc 3S mile Dis tance 5S mile mileRlagg Rlagg and Druid were the only sucpessful favorites to win during the afternoon tout second choices which carried off the majority of the purses were well backed backedThe The defeat of nasty Agnes by Masquerade was sharply criticised and the officials concluded to suspend jockey Gaugel the ruler of the rnare for the remainder of the meeting here for rank incom petcncy petcncyT T J MeCafferty also annexed another purse when Druid won the closing race in the commonest of canters from a poor band of platers platersIn In the sprint handicap Blagg again showed his superiority when he conceded others in the race much weight and then won in the easiest kind of manner Frizette and Al Muller the early leaders raced strenuously through the stretch for second place and the MeCafferty filly managed to get it in the last stride strideGrimaldi Grimaldi which was coupled in the betting with Frizette was shuffled back soon after the start and gave a good exhibition of high speed hy racing into contention and threatened momentarily to be the winner on the stretch turn but tired under gruelling punishment After the finish MeCafferty complained to the officials of Plckens severe work in cutting the horse with his whip Blood was streaming from Grimaldis flanks on his return to the scales scalesNight Night Mist was the longestpriced winner of the afternoon when he led the others home in the second race raceP P Dunne captured another purse with Lady Almy which was much the best In the sixth race Heine and Hughes were in a drive for second place which the former secured securedHocus Hocus Pocus carded to start in the second race was sevdrely injurod in his preliminary this morn Ing and it will be sqme time before he is a starter again againJockey Jockey V Powers departed today for New York where he will seek an engagement to ride this sea ¬ son There has been no ruling made against the rider here The officials merely requested him in view of sharp criticism against him to refrain from accepting any more mounts here hereJockey Jockey R McLaughlin was severely injured Oils morning while galloping a horse at the Louisiana Driving Park His mount shied and threw him on a passing harrow The boys head struck some of the sharp teeth of the harrow inflicting several severe gashes gashesThe The following horsemen will ship to Louisville on a special which will leave the City Park track next Monday MondayS S Forsythe J C Ferrlss Jr John Stevens T Brown James Grlsby W J Donohue P Knebel kamp J U Strode H Flippen W T Woodard A B Maginnia P H Jones J W Dayton F A Llbby F W Torreyson G D Bryson G Cochran P M West C C Powers Mrs J Reardon F CantwellJ F Davis G H Pierce J S Ownbey S M Marsh P Nolan W C Capps S Wlllams and M House HouseT T P Hayes C E Hamilton H McCarren Jr J Flemming and W G KingDodOs will ship their stables next Stuiday
