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VALUABLE STAKES TO COME Rich New Orleans and Crescent City Handicaps Yet to Be Run Stellar Attractions Provided for forLast Last Half of the Fair FairGrounds Grounds Meeting New Orleans La January 19 Almost onehalf of tin Fair Grounds race meeting lias gone as this turning iMiint will be reached tin middle of this week hut the best of the sport from a standpoint of valuable stakes is still to come as the New Or ¬ leans Handicap with a value of 4000 and the Crescent City Handicap 5000 added are yet to be run Entries for the former closed Thursday and the race will be run on Saturday February 2 Weights for it will be published on January 23 The Crescent City Handicap will be the stellar at ¬ traction on the closing day of the meeting Feb ¬ ruary 12 12Just Just when it looked like the weather man was going to be sparing on the Fair Grounds meeting sifter the mean way he treated it last year he went on his bad behavior again and for a few days the local racegoers and many visitors here for the racing went through some real severe weather Whait little snoxy they saw at the race track amounted to nothing as it was in flurries but for several tlays the temperature hovered not far above the freezing mark and upon ai couple of occasions dropped below it However the turf patrons turned out in goodly numbers on days when it was really remarkable that they came out at all allPutting Putting seven races on the program daily has served to give many more horses an opportunity to get into action especially the sprinters of the cheaper division In a further effort to give all a chance to send their horses to the post the pre ¬ ferred list of excluded horses has been reestab ¬ lished but the charging of a 10 entrance fee in claiming races has had a tendency to check the horsemen who formerly entered so often just to get on this list and wait for a soft spot Incidentally there are no more cases of sixty or seventy Iiorses being excluded in races with claiming conditions attached since the entrance fee has been charged chargedCLEAN CLEAN SPORT AT FAIR GROUNDS GROUNDSClean Clean sport has been the rule at the Fair Grounds thus far and a few suspensions for rough riding has made the jockeys sit up and take notice and cut out their wild west methods There is no patrol judge on the stretch turn to watch the boys as yet but the judges in the stand keep their eyes open and do ridingIt not miss much in the way of rough riding It did not take the John W Schorr stable long to get into action at the Fair Grounds as the first horse that this establishment sent to the post Jas T Clark was returned a winner Many horse ¬ men who saw him run for the first time here said that in their opinion the son of Dick Finnell Para dise Won was the most likely looking threeyearold that had raced here this winter to date and they predicted that he will attain i high rank in the threeyearold division this year The horse did not appear to be quite iiy to his best effort at that as he had not raced in some time but lie showed a sparkling performance This colt won the Spring Trial Stakes at Douglas Iark Louisville last spring but after that he did not live up to ex ¬ pectations His rest since last fall seems to have helped him considerably and judging from his initial performance hero he should be heard from often from now on onAt At the present time it looks as though jockey George Waills will not be seen in the saddle any more until the eastern racing season onens He lias been in the hospital several weeks now as the result of a fall on the second day of the Fail Grounds meeting and his attending physician says tlmt he will not be able to leave the institution until after the local meeting ends It is his plan to rest up until the Bowie meeting opens after he gets out of the hospital although in may go to Hot Springs for a vacation Waills was riding in his best form when he met with the accident which caused his lay up upAWAITING AWAITING WORD FROM HOT SPRINGS SPRINGSHorsemen Horsemen hero are anxiously awaiting the offi ¬ cial announcement of the dates for the Oaklawn Iark meeting at Hot Springs Ark J B Campbell who serves as judge anil clerk of the scales at the Fair Grounds and who is the moving spirit of the lawn meeting is taking applications for stable room from the horsemen and it looks as though he is going to have far more applications than he will have stalls 1ractically all the big stables here are going to the Vapor City while others which have been at Tijuana all winter are expected Moseowa expectedMoseowa winner of the Latonfa Cup Handicap last fall at two and oneiuarter miles is being given a thorough preparation for the Mayor Martin Bchrman Handicap at two miles which will be run on February This event will be a claiming han ¬ dicap with the claiming price fixed at 1500 uml it will have an added value of 1200 It will cost 10 to nominate a horse for it and 15 additional to start Kntries for it will close on January 2i and weights will be announced by racing secretary Mc ¬ Lennan three days later Moseowai won this race last year and since that time the son of Out of KeachRosinante has demonstrated unusual ability to go such a route He has raced in several races at one and onesixteenth miles or under here but he has shown nothing as he cannot get untracked until after going this far farJ J K L Itoss the Montreal turfman is cutting inite a figure in the racing here and the small stalde that he has at the Fair Grounds in charge if trainer F J Stevens is more than holding its own The best of the band seems to be Manokin a fonryearold sou of Rapid Vater Little Butter np He is a true running colt and he was not lure long until he had won two races Another horse in his barn is Sir Kdgar a sixyearold son of Cunard Stumpy and a frequent winner for H i Bedwell However Sir Kdgar has not shown the form recently that lift did in his earlier racing days but trainer Stevens is of the opinion that he will win a few races before the winter is over overBRYNLIMAH BRYNLIMAH TAKES NEW LEASE ON LIFE LIFEOld Old Brynlimah John Lowes chief breadwinner seems to have taken a new lease on life this winter and unlike former years is able to get up smd win over fair fields sit a mile Heretofore anything under a mile and an eighth was considered far too short for Bryiilimah but now he shiys up closer to his opponents than formerly and when he turns Continued on second l lge VALUABLE STAKES TO COME Continued from first page on with his one burst of speed he does not have so much ground to make tip on his opponents lie has won four races here this winter and might have won another but for getting cut about tlie legs during its running His injuries were only skin deep however and Lowe was not long in getting him back to tlie races The son of Bryn Mawr Notlimah has kept the Lowe establishment well up on the list of purse winning owners here this winter as the other members of this stable notably Plea sureville Whirling Dun Cobrita and Durward Rob ¬ erts have fallen down unexpectedly unexpectedlySadness Sadness pervaded Jim McKinneys stable when his old campaigner Waterproof was claimed from him by W C Weant several days ago McKinney had come to regard Waterproof as one of the family and so had C E Hamilton who owned tlie old horse and it was a hard blow to both of them to lose him Weant gave 1000 for him which in addition to a purse of 505 whicli he won brought his price up to a good figure but both McKinney and Hamilton valued him more from a sentimental standpoint because they had him so long He is now six years old but tlie way he picks up 1115 pounds and comes from far back to beat good oppo ¬ nents in claiming races shows that he still has syme good racing in him himHorsemen Horsemen here with good apprentice riders under contract are unanimous in the opinion that the rule recently passed by the Jockey Club to the effect that a jockey shall be entitled to an apprentice al ¬ lowance until he has ridden forty winners is a bad rule for a boy who really can ride They cite num ¬ erous cases where a jockey would lose his appren ¬ tice allowance in a couple of months by riding forty winners where under the present rules he gets the allowance until one year after the date he rides his first winner
