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IMPROVED CONDITIONS AT NEW ORLEANS. Track Drying Out Pan Zareta and Leochares Working Well Jockey Robinson Expected. New Orleans, La., December 10. Almost as suddenly as it arrived here, the cold wave, which prevailed all of yesterday, disappeared this morning, and, as a result, the Fair Grounds race track was fairly alive with horses today. That the going had dried out considerably was shown when Leochares worked three-eighths of a mile in 38, under hard restraint all the way, and Pan Zareta, which does not fancy slow going at all, was galloped a half mile in 52. By tomorrow the track should lie as good as at any time since last winter. The schooling of two-year-olds was resumed today and assistant starter Osborne had forty-two at the barrier. Among the days arrivals for the winter meeting were Pat Civill, who is racing some horses at Juarez and also has some here; It. L. Baker, whose horses arrived yesterday, and Ed Trotter. Civill will leave what horses he has racing at tho Mexican course at Juarez, where his contract rider, jockey A. Carroll, will also remain. Trotter has no horses of his own to race here, but will train the R. L. Baker string. He lias the contract on jockey Frank Robinson, and reports that the boy will arrive here during the holidays. The lad is now visiting at his home in Cleveland, O. Additions to the riding colony today were jockeys Floyd Cooper and J. Hanover. Cooper came with the Itaker horses and Hanover from his home in New York. A yearling filly by Magazine French Nun, owned by Ross and Looney of Lexington, Ky., was received today at the barn of Danny Miller, who will race her here. Bids for the various concessions at the Fair Grounds during the coming winter meeting were opened today by supervisor I. I.. Rennyson, and indicate confidence in a largely attended meeting.
