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ALL FOR SELLING PLATERS i EVERY NEW ORLEANS RACE A SELLER, WITH SIX FAVORITES BEATEN IN A ROW. ] Broomscdge Defeats Guide Post in the Feature Race i of the Day — Nearly Three Hundred Horses Scheduled for Hot Springs. i New Orleans. La., February 24. — Cool weather ; had little effect on the Fair Grounds attendance ] ihis afternoon. The grandstand was again tilled t p capacity with interested spectators of the racing. Small fields contributed toward enjoyable sport. All the races were under selling conditions, with a handicap at one mile with .5oo as the selling price, featuring the card. Rroomsodgo. which. since being claimed by George Phillips, has develop,! into a shifty plater, scored a lucky victory in this race over Guide Post. Ike latter lost b. a head, but with an equal break in the racing luck Would have WOT easily. Favorites were again in eclipse, all six choices being beaten. Hie offenders were lobelia in the opener. Cardome in the second. Hose Marian in the third, Irish fir nth Mill in the fill 111 Chad Bated in the fifth and Kelsetta in the sixth. there was no unusual activity among the bidders for selling race bargains, Plcasurcvillc being the only one to receive their attention. His entered price of -.0* was a low valuation ami Sam Louis boosted it to 00, hut failed to get him. there were many additional applications today for stall room by horsemen who contemplate racing at Hot Springs and J. 15. Campbells list here now te| a Is nearly 300 horses. Joseph B. Martin, who will have charge of the r. icing at Hot Springs for the Business -Mens League, sent the following telegram hero ancnt the outlook for the sport in the Vapor city: "Hot Springs will have the greatest mcoteing it ever had. Citizens of the town and the whole surrounding country are enthusiastic. Hotels and railroads are having big demands for reservations. We have one hundred men working on the grounds. Which will be in spick and span order a week before the opening. The track and stables are in line condition and every prospect is for a wonderful lueeting." The board of appeals, of which Captain .lames H. Kees is chairman, will have a meeting fir organization and to select a secretary tonight. Joseph A. Murphy will submit the oases on the books of the Business Mens Racing Association and it la likely that the F. Statin case will be the rlrst to cine before the board. Captain Kees plans to depart for his home in Memphis next Monday night. The final program hook of the meeting, covering the last e=glu days, was dist ributcd to owners this afternoon. .lames Butler will depart tomorrow for Juarez. where lie will icmain Cor EOase time to witness the ianrt. There will be seven races daily during the Bowie meeting, according to Secretary McLennan, who is now arranging the program book for that meeting. Twenty nine pari-matBci machines of the John llachmeister pattern will be installed at the Hamilton trai k for this j ears use. According ■• reports from Detroit, an effort will be made during the coming session of the Michigan legislature to have a bill passed that will allow race meetings ror runners, in connection with the state fair, with mutnel betting as an adjunct. Training gallop* this morning on a fast track were: Beamnont Lady -Half mile in SO. Boa Otis jaarter mile in ■_:;. Bill Simmon- Three quarters in 1:17%. Rryiiliniah Mile in 1 : 11-.-,. Cadenza — Mile in 1:46%. Chemung -Three-eighths in Hi. Diadl — I hrce quarter in 1:17-.. Dick William- Mile in 1:42%. Dorothy Dean IlUe in 1:43%. Kd Crump Mile in 1:11-,: mile and one-eighth in 1:94%. Fein I -Three-eighths in 37. Fly Home — Three-quarters in 1:10. loibrii. — Three-quarters in 1:1U%. G burning — Three-quarters in 1:21. Glome* Half mile in li -.. Herbert Temple Mile in 1:45%. Increase Hull mile In 52 . Indolence — Tun v eighths in 36%. Injury Mile in 1 : 18%. J. B. Han-ell Three-eighths in 36%. J. I . Sugg Three-eighths in 30. .hick Iteeves Three uuarters ii 1 :15%. Jim Uruady Three-quarters in 1:18. Judge Wright -Three-uuartera in 1:19%. K lids Half mile in 50%. Lady Jane Grej -Three-qnartera in 1:10%. l.nzzi Three-quarters in 1:10%. lucky It.--live eighths in 1:02. Marion Gooshj Mile in 1:43%; mile and one-eighth in 1:57%. Mockery Mile and one-eighth in 2:00. Nepera Hall mile in 54. Polll 11. Mile and i tie eighth in 1 :5ft, Republican — Three-quarters in 1:17%. Itbyraer— -Quarter mile in 24. Skeer Face Mile in 1:43%. Tokay Three-qnarters In 1:19%. Transport Seven-eighths in 1:30. I ■daunted Three-quarters in 1:15%. War Bride— Half mil- in .",4. Wild Base Three-quarters in 1:17.
