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MEETING NEARING ITS CLOSE Jefferson Park Racing Covers Only Seven More Days. Attractions Provided for This Week Include Two ,000 Purses Leading Winners. c New Orleans, La., December 23. The Jefferson Park meeting enters upon its last lap of seven lays with the running of tomorrows program and indications point to the final week eing the best one of the season. Track conditions are now Iietter than at any time since the new course was opened and thu weather for the past week has been all that could he desired for outdoor sport. With a return to good weather and a better track, many of the higher class of horses cot into action. This served to stimulate the sport all around. Even with many horses making their first starts of the meeting, the form backers are still in their stride and thus far out of 121! races run at the meeting, fifty-two of them have fallen to favorites. This is remarkable, when it is taken into consideration that for a period of more than a week, the course was in wretched condition, due to heavy rains, but form was better preserved when the going was muddy than it has been since it became good. Two handicaps, each with ,000 added, are down for decision this week, the first one being the Christmas Handicap for all ages at one mile and one-sixteenth, to be run Tuesday, the other being the Star and Crescent Ilandicap for all ages at the same distance, to lie run Saturday. For the closing day of the meeting, New Years eve, the An Revoir Handicap for all ages at one mile will be the stellar feature. ROBINSON LEADS THE JOCKEYS. .v-Vf tor getting on even terms with him for the leadership of the riders here three times during the past week, jockey Albert Johnson failed by. one winning mount to remain tied for the head of the list with jockey Frank Robinson. The latter has won twenty races and Johnson nineteen. Those who hnve won three or more races are G. Walls, 12; O. Willis and M. Garner. 9 each; W. Kelsay and E. SInrtin, 0 apiece; L. Lykes and J. Collins, 4 each; J. Slooney, F. Keogh ami E. Donahue, 3 apiece. Thirty-four jockeys have ridden one or more winners. W. C. Capps still retains his lead in the matter of purse winning owners with ,030 to his credit. His nearest rival is J. O. Talbott, whose horses have earned ,300 for him here. Others above the ,000 mark are II. Field, S1,9S5; W. Stormont, ,700; George Peterson. ,500; SI. C. Moore, ,300;. H. Perkins. ,350; B. Williams. ,300; C. T. Worthington, ,200; SI. Shea. ,170; W. C. Weant, ,140; W. P. Orr ,110; A. SI. Hurd, ,100, and B. J. Bmnnon, ,050.
