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ORDINARY FRIDAYS CARD Fair Grounds Program Devoted to Cheaper Grade of Horses. Track Shows Big Improvement and Will Be Close to Fast Today. NEW ORLEAXS, La., January 10. An ordinary program of the usual Friday afternoon variety, catering to the cheaper grade of horses, furnished some rood sport at the Fair Grounds. The course showed considerable improvement today, and the prosiects are that for tomorrows excellent card the track will almost he fast. The two-year-old race gave Kdward Cebrlan another victory in the juvenile contests, his Von Tromp filly Lonely winning after a sharply contested stretch drive with Itunnaii. another California-bred youngster. Rib, the first choice in the race, suffered from early interference and was always outrun. Frances Starr beat Clarice Ruth and James A. Sheridan, the most fancied ones, in the second, while Laggard provided a surprise by leading home Milda in the third. After the finish of the third race Thursday, the stewards called on jockey Knsor for an explanation as to his reason for taking Dervish through the deepest going. Knsor claimed that Wakoff, on Ithymer, was resionsible for it, and investigation proved this to le tiie case; whereupon Wakoff was suspended for ten days for rough riding. apt. Hodge was claimed yesterday by C. X, Freeman for 50. The Waldeck Stable scored its first victory of the Fair .rounds meeting when Yermak won yesterday.- .... . " "" - laddoek judge John Carey had to absent himself from duty yesterday on account of illness. Jockey Frank Robinson is seriously ill and will probably not be seen in the saddle for some time. John I. Mnyberry is another on the ailing list and had to be taken home from the track yesterday. The horses formerly raced by John Thornby will in future run in the name of the Phillipsburg Stable, Frank Davitt having secured an interest in them. Jockey Stalkers apprentice allowance expired with his success astride Grumpy yesterday, it marking his fortieth victory. P. T. Chinn was among the newcomers yesterday and he will remain for the remainder of the racing. His horses have been here since early in December. Jockey John McTaggart will begin accepting mounts next Monday. The John Powers Memorial Plate was on exhibition this afternoon. It had its first running last year and was won by Jock Scot. An owner lias to win it twice in succession before it becomes bis pcrutamcnt property.
