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iDAY OF CLAIMING CONTESTS New Orleans Card of Six Races Given to Selling Platers Jockey Walls Hurt When Valerie ValerieWest West Falls Race Taken from fromSilvey Silvey Shapiro New Orleans La January 2 Todays racing of ¬ fering was with a view to give platers an oppor ¬ tunity the six races all having claiming clauses but as the selling prices were on a high scale many of the best in this division were among the starters and good sport was again the order Fin ¬ ishes were close in most of the contests and the big throng again present enjoyed the sport There was a falling off from yesterdays big volume of letting but enough activity prevailed in the bet ¬ ting pavillion to keep over fifty price quoters steadily engaged engagedFavorites Favorites again were downed Green Grass and Thornhill being the only ones to reward the confi ¬ dence of their backers backersJockey Jockey Kcogh was much in the limelight during the afternoon and piloted to victory winners of half of the card He inaugurated his success with llasil in the second race and followed it up with wins on Thornhill and Marianao He is the first rider to accomplish the feat of riding three winners in these parts this winter winterBig Big fields went to the barrier in the first two races and one of them the second was productive of a mishap that will keep jockey Walls out of the saddle for some time He was astride Valerie AVest and that filly was in a contending position when she was crowded to a fall Bogy Johnson on which F Stevens had the mount was another to go down Walls was apparently badly hurt and was rushed to a local hospital to receive medical attention Stevens escaped injury and Valerie West probably terminated her racing career for she was led off the track with difficulty and ouu of her front legs dangling danglingHORSE HORSE ASSOCIATION TO MEET MEETMembers Members of the Thoroughbred Horse Association will hold a meeting tomorrow night to discuss dif ¬ ferent racing matters pertaining to their interest It is thought that the seven race feature will not be taken up by the horsemen as President John T Pender has made it known that the directors of the Business Mens Racing Association are op ¬ posed dailyThe to more than six races daily The protest made by I Christian that Silvey Shapiro was ineligible to the race she won at Jefferson Park has been sustained investigation disclosing that she had won a race at Spring ¬ field Mo two at Columbia Mo and one at St Louis Mo First money was awarded to Brig house second to Sonada and Tiajan was given third money L A Proaddus who has Silvey Shapiro In charge was fined JWO for running her in a race to which she was not eligible eligibleJockey Jockey George Molesworth returned to the saddle this afternoon it being his first riding effort in a race since his bad fall on Itafferty at Douglas Park last fall fallKulogy Kulogy was claimed in the last race by F W Statou for 1C00 She had been claimed in a previous race by W W Elliott from J B Good ¬ man manK K H Bradley has contracted for second call on the services of the crack apprentice rider A Johnson during the Fair Grounds meeting meetingW W Perkins this afternoon disposed of Pluto at private terms to J McNamara and G Phillips sold Batwa to S Odde OddeTomorrows Tomorrows card will have all six races at a mile or over and this will be the custom on all Thursdays during the meeting
