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NEW ORLEANS TRACK IMPROVING FAST. Will Be Good Today if No More Rain Falls — Gossip of the Course. New Orleans, La.. January ".--The second week of racing nt the Fair Grounds will be ushered in tomorrow, with the track in better condition than on any day of the meeting to date, unless it should rain in the meanwhile, which docs not seem probable now. Today the going was bordering on being fast, and there were several handled 1 ..rses out for morning trials. Some fast moves were reported and the real high lass horses had a chance to take- good work-out-. Sunday is a big day for the admirers of the thoroughbred here, who are unable to ge-t to the course during the week, and there were several hundred of tin in out this morning to watch the workouts. Another stake will be decided this week the St. Charles Hotel Hindi. ap -oa n.-t Saturday. The weights tur it will be announced Thursday. It will lw- at three-quarters and some good sprinters have been nominated to it. Jockey Frank Murphy will ride for the John W. Schorr stable in Kentucky next spring and fall and probably in New York in the summer. Mr. BckOR has arranged to take over his contract, beginning April -7 anil continuing to October Us. Murphy was a successful rider last year, winning two of Americas richest takes the Latonia and American Derbys — both with Dodge. Although the popular choices did not meet with much success in the first weeks racing, the action in the Palm Garden was of g ranter volume than in the opening vw--k of last w:i-uii. The presence of several lag lnors has result. .1 in better prices and. with few exceptions, the fields have been so evenly matched as to make the picking of winners a difficult task. The bringing together of horses from the east, west and Canada, and the fact that many of them lacked sufficient preparation on account of the bad track which prevailed for several weeks, made this task still more difficult. The end of the first weeks racing at the Fair Grounds finds Jefferson Livingston far in the lead in the list of winning owners. Sixty -seven owners thus far here shared in the purse distribution, of which twenty -nine have won one or more races. Jockey Frank Robinson is at the top of the list of winning riders at the Fair Grounds. His closest rival is Jockey Lawrence Lykes. C. C. Baker and Louis Adair were among todays arrivals. They came from Louisville, where their Manual are wintering.
