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BONDAGE RECOVERS SPEED Takes the Foch Handicap from Courtship with Ease. Fine Weather and Prospective Good Racing Attracts a Great Crowd. NEW ORLEANS, La., February 8. The Foch Handicap at a mile and a quarter, the first of the longer features of the present meeting of the Rusiness Mens Racing Association, resulted in a brilliant victory for James Arthurs highly regarded Rondage, with Courtship in second place and Roister, a stable companion to Rondage, landing thin:. Seven started in the race, which had a net value of ,310. The entry received confident support and was the post favorites, with Courtship the second choice. Rondages showing this afternoon was on n par with some of his good races last year, and in vivid contrast with his last previous race. At Hint his victory today was probably due more to the fact that Courtship was a trifle short. The recent bad track conditions accounted for the failure of Courtships trainer to key him up to a high racing pitch and it told on the horse in the final struggle. In the earlier racing Courtship, though conceding weight to all the others, had little difficulty in holding a good lead, and he continued to show the way until in the stretch. Those which attempted to follow him closest in the early running, which included Lucky R., Douglass S. and Roister, were thoroughly spent as a result of their efforts, but it also told on Courtship, for he was a ready victim to Rondages rush in the final stretch sprint. Summerlike weather and an improved track, coupled with a well arranged racing program, was a big magnet to attract" a banner attendance to the course. The racing was spirited, the best that has been witnessed in several weeks, and the different fields were closely grouped for most of the wav. instead of being scattered nil over the course i formerly, Iue to the path racing that has been the feature. The mile purse, which served as a secondarv feature, was marr?d by the bad start given Mountain Rose II.. and it was directly responsible for the horses defeat. Unlike in his former race, when he met Nepperhan, confident support for him was lacking. At the start he propped and was ten lengths back of the others in the first quarter. Hit had moved almost level with his opoonents on the stretch turn, but here his rider seemed content to remain passive, with the result that Kate Rright and Nepperhan beat him easily to the finish. E. R. Rradley earned his first purse of the . winter season when Iwin managed to lead the others home In the opening dash under S. Royles guidance. It was also that riders initial victory. King K. outstayed a poor band that went to the post In the second race, but It took Troxlers best riding to land him winner over Sookane Queen and Paganiul. Ina Kay had little difficulty leading those in the third race. Padua and Frank Shannon, a pair of outsiders, divided the minor portions of the purse. DOUBLE TOR ARTHUR CONNECTIONS. Lord Herbert made it a double for the Arthur connections when he ran away from the others in the stretch to win as his rider pleased from Tom Goose, with J. Walker following. Queen Apple, in this race, was a big favorite, but ran a dull race and was claimed by Sam Louis for ,000. Dan T. Morris Dahabiah II. was the medium for a heavy jolt to the layers in the final race, which she won with great case from Semoer Stalwart and Slumberer, with the favorite, Rlue Thistle, a bad last. Todays visitors iucluded John R. Thompson and Charles McCuIlough, two of the high type of sports-nuii from Chicago. Roth are enthusiastic racing supporters and expressed belief that racing has a good chance to be restored in the near future to the Windy City under the auspices of prominent club men. Former Governor Luther E. Hall, who was the presiding state official when the sport had Its restoration here, was among todays interested visitors. 5. D. Rryan, Jr.. announced this afternoon that engineers are now at work on the drainage problem at Jefferson Park and that work to eliminate further Hooding of the plant and surroundings would begin next Monday by a big force of workmen. Other needed improvements will also be started and the -course will practically be new for the opening of the ten days spring term of racing that follows on the heels of the Fair Grounds meeting. P. L. Short has taken over the horses Sea Reach, El Rey. Pleasant and Naomi, formerly In charge of George Cochran. Eighteen entries were made to the Allenby Handicap of ,500. to be run next Saturday. It comprises practically the best in the handicap division here. E. W. Moore, who holds the contract on the promising C. Robinson, has had several flattering offers for the transfer of the contract, but none of tin: offers has come up to his expectations. Mose Goldblatt is the latest to seek the contract, and is said to have offered 0,000 for it. He is acting, it Is said, for H. P. Whitney. C. E. Patterson bought Starry Rauner on private terms from C. and E. Raker. Pat Dunne has acquired Medusa from J. O. Talbott. Rone Dry has been sold by W. Hurley to F. S. Penbody.
