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JEFFERSON PARK RACING Good Weather Brings Hope of a Better Track This Week New Jockey from the West Rides RidesThree Three Winners Favorites FavoritesProve Prove Elusive New Orleans La December 2 Fine weather and an increased attendance were features of to ¬ days racing The bad track again militated against the sport and during the afternoon brought iu its wake many upsets The far western lad Cassity starred during the afternoon by piloting three of the winners beginning his sucesses astride Hasty Mattel and following with victories on Sandy Lad and Jack Reeves The latter was an extreme outsider and showed a sudden form improvement improvementGeorge George Chancellors Green Grass and Jockey Gnt ber contributed an additional incident of the after ¬ noon when they finished far back in the fourth race Chancellor had been iudustKicus during the forepart of the day trying to get Green Grass withdrawn from the race giving as his reason that lie thought he would be claim til The stewards naturally refused to let him out of his engage ¬ ment on such a flimsy pretext Gruber rode the colt in faulty style and the officials promptly notified the rider of his suspension until farther investigation investigationThe The nonstaying Kultur again caused a big upset when he succumbed to Sandy Lad LadJudge Judge Carter C Hall and Starter Eddie Triba arrived in time to begin their duties for the after ¬ noon Tribe replaced George Miller at the starting post wliile Judge Hall joined Judges Murphy and Conkling iu the stewards stand standPaul Paul Fox wired the Jefferson Park management to reserve stabling for six horses tii JifuJihrin t ing from New York Among tlie imbiber is Lively a threeyearold that won three straight races at Empire City last summer summerJ J AA Tex Foreman came with several horses the best one being the twoyearold Iwiuiwin which showed winning form at the Latonia meeting meetingJockey Jockey X Barrett who rode on the Kentucky tracks with much success is also an arrival and will ride for AV H Baker BakerAVill AVill Perkins reported tluxt his stable of thirty horses stood the trip from Latonia in splendid style not one of the number arriving here in bad condition H Simnson the stables colored rider is also here and will ride at the meeting for Perkins PerkinsJim Jim Robertson has abandoned hoi e of getting his mare Aalerie AAest to the races for some time She will have to undergo an operation for throat trouble troubleJ J McPherson is among the latest arrivals from Kentucky He brought Merchant Lucky R and Tiueo H Tullett is another recent arrival from Latonia The only horse he brought was tlie two yearold Silvery Light Tnllett sold the good three yearold Rafferty to Kay Spence prior to leaving Latonia LatoniaThe The Jefferson Park management announced that every Tuesday would be Indies day when the fair sex will be admitted free of charge chargeFIHST FIHST STAB NOT DESTKOYED DESTKOYEDJ J J Troxler arrived with five horses including Fern Handley Kliyuier Hutu Strickland and a couple of twoyearolds He stated that his old campaigner First Star had not been destroyed as reported after the horse had broken down in his last start at Latouia He has been turned out at tlie farm of F Bobbins at Kentbii Kentucky KentuckyOnly Only one carload of the AVnldeck Stables horses arrived so far in charge of Hum Keene The others belonging to the stable are due to reach here the latter part ef the week Those that have already arrived include Moscowa Basilius Ifulaski Yer mak Salute Cocotte Vindictive Fnistilla ISrm ful Cracow Lady Marathon and Gourmond The last named was the only one that did not ship iu good health healthJockey Jockey M Buxton arrived from the east today todayII II J Mackenzie the wellknown Canadian capi ¬ talist and sportsman was i visitor today stopping over for a few days racing wliile en route from San Francisco to New York YorkThe The Jefferson Park track dried out somewhat over Sunday under the influence of warm sunshine but the going was still heavy and it is regarded as almost certain that the course will be heavy for the next two days at least The Fair Ground trackon the other hand showed little or 110 sign of the i recent rains Sunday morning the course was in splendid condition for the first time in over a week and this enabled trainers to indulge their charges in some real snappy work The big crowd of railbirds was treated to some meritorious trials trialsGeneral General regret was expressed by the horsemen when they learned that Jim Everman had lost his best yearling the colt having succumbed to pneu ¬ monia Saturday night after several days illness contracted en rente from Latonia The colt was by ISen Brush Beautiful Hess and was bred and owned by Judge A11U AA Young a member of tlie Kentucky State Racing Commission The young ¬ ster had shown up remarkably well in his prelimi ¬ nary trials and was regarded by Everman as the best Horse he had trained since he raced Gover ¬ nor Gray for Captain AVilliams Everman was much affected by the death of the colt coltTlie Tlie influx of horses continued all day Sunday the greater part of the shipments coming from Ken ¬ tucky Among these were the stables of AV H Baker A L Kirby Mose Culdhlatt George Senn E RandolphThe C Colton and John Randolph The Goldblatt consignment comprised seventeen head including tlie ten yearlings belonging to Harry Payne AVhitney which will be raced here Tumbler and Legotal were also included in the shipment shipmentE E T Colton brought Azalea Henefactor Byrne and Vision tlie four he recently secured from Major T C McDowell and Hanovhi Marshon and Harry Hurgoync Shortly before leaving Latonia Colton sold Byrne to T Schullman wellknown Cincinnati business man who turned the youngster over to R J Powers to be trained together with the two yearold Cacambo which was secured from George J Long at Latonia and several promising year ¬ lings lingsAl Al Kirbys shipment included Aiolet Ronnie Dr Tuck Blackie Daw and eisht other horses John Randolph brought Archie Alexander Hathildc and Hill Hiinley George Senn the Missouri owner brought only two horses these being Suuflush II and Gallant Lad LadSteve Steve Judge is at the Fair Grounds with King John Aeteran and Mose all his own property and Mars EganD Mouse which he is training for Ray Egan D S Fountain was the only owner to reach here Sunday from Howie He brought Thorn Bloom and Manoevre both of which raced successfully on the Maryland tracks A large shipment from Bowie is due to arrive today or Tuesday
