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FAST TRACK RACING NEAR NEW ORLEANS GOING IMPROVES STEADILY AND EAST TIME IS IN ORDER. Julia L. Defeats Hauberk in the Fleet Handicap — Jockey Crump Lands Three Winners — Bullion Pulls Up Lame — Track Talk. New Orleans. La.. February i. — There was more snap to the racing this afternoon than in weeks past. The improved weather Mi track, likewise a better mi! of starters in the !ifferent rares. contributing materially to the improvement. Spirited finishes marked the running of most of the dashes. aetata] being so particularly close that it required the official placing before it could be determined which had won. The Fleet Handicap at three -quarters for a purse of 0700 was the feature and it resulted in a victory far Julia L.. with Hauberk in second place and C«JM Hun third. Julia L. and Hauberk absorb -d most of the betting attention on the race. Hauberk closing a slight favorite. The good riding of jockeys Robinson and rump wer" again incidents of the racing. Crumps work Mas steady throughout the afternoon, he inaugurating his victories with a success on Ornery in the opener, following with anothi;- bracket on Running Quel n in the second dash and landing Cliff Field winner in the fifth, in the closest finish of the afternoon. After the finish of the fifth race, Hull ion. the receding favorite, showed decided symptoms of lameness. Jockey J. Williams had his suspension cut in two and was allowed to accept mounts this afternoon. H. G. Beelwoll. who lias a stable of horses racing here, as well as at Havana, was among the days antral*. He came from his farm in Maryland and will go to Havana tomorrow night. He plans to sell all of his horses which are racing at Oriental Park and then come back here and sell those that are racing here. He lias fifteen horses at Laurel. Maryland, and they will constitute his stable f next summer. The long deferred announcement relative to Hot Springs racing plans, reached here this afternoon by the following from an authoritative source: "Lverything settled hue; opening March 7 at Oak-lawn." The news was hailed with much joy by the owner-, and they began laying plans for a campaign at the Vapor City. Indications are that at least s veuty-five per cent of the horses will be shipped to the springs and that at least sixty per cent of the big racing throng will go there for the opening. Colonel Apple gate, replying to the message sent him offering a purse of |1JN for a meeting of Old Rosebud and Leochares at threo-qu. liters, stated that lie appreciated the offer but declined it. as there would be a resumption of racing at Juarez ■with two days lacing weekly and that he would later ship to Hot Springs for the meeting there. Trainer John Powers gave his crack Leochares a stiff half mil" workout after the second race, the trial was preliminary to his start in the Hotel Ileas Stake of S4.000 to be run Saturday. W. S. Kilmer, who recently entered the ranks of owners on an extensive scale and whose horses are being trained by Henry McDaniel, was among todays rlaftora. lb is on his way to Honolulu and stopped off for a few days to witness the racing here. Kd Cook aai E- Crockett, both owners, with horses at the Fair Grounds, are seriously ill at one of the local hotels. J. M. Rogers of New York, who owned some horses bete, died suddenly this morning at one of local hotels from acute hemorrhage. Bf.t-TI.tary McLennan was advised this morning by manager OUar.i to incorporate in his program bock for the Low ie meeting no purses of leaa than SIMM valu ■■. Supervisor I. D. Rennyson was at the track this afternoon for the first time since having to undergo the painful operation of having his fractured leg re-broken.
