view raw text
MORE HEAVY TRACK RACING . Fair Grounds Sport Back in the Old Rut of Trouble. Warsaw an Easy Winner of the Main Race Nepperhan a Victor at Last. NEW ORLEANS. La., February 19. Threatening weather and an ordinary racing offering were factors in reducing todays attendance at the Fair Grounds. The mile handicap was marred by the withdrawal of Slippery Elm, trainer Bob Smith having that racer excused because of his dislike to do his best over si rough course. His absence from the race made it an easy affair for Warsaw, which won as his rider pleased from the- poorly ridden Douglass S.. which succeeded in getting up to land second place from the tiring Opportunity. Sleeth, ithe only other starter In the race, was beaten off. Track conditions favored those with facilitv for running In the soft going, but portions of the track showed firmness, .and jhe bnie parfi kjiarticularly whs better thafi"the inner strip. " The mile and seventy yards purse enabled Nepperhan to finally win his first purse this winter, when he outstayed Amalette. Nepperhan failed to show anything of the injury that prompted Moles-worth to pull him up in his last race, and he came back to the stand after todays race in sound style. H. P. Whitneys Atta Boy won another purse, this itime in easy style, when he galloped home before Booneville and Hidden Ship, jilhe latter was a supposed good thing, but her inner rail position forced her to traverse the worst part of the track and save her. jio-opportnnity to niu to her "best form. An intended coup went wrong in the second race, with Tan II. serving as the medium, but the best he could do was to land in third place. Betsy beating Omond by a nose for the purse. Tan II. might have won had he been ridden bv a more experienced rider than W. Robinson. The fourteen Uiat started in the third race made it an Interesting affair, and the finish foiind Rhymer just lasting long enough to beat Bluebannock for the purse. Queen Blondei- suddenly found her speed in the sixth nice, and cantered away with the purse. Alma Louise taking second place and Barbara Shilling third. The final race alio developed a form somersault when Prunes won easily from Dolina, witli Amelita in third place. Any chances that Cadillac and Semier Stalwart might have had went glimmering by the incompetent riding they were given in the race. 5 M. J. Rooney has disposed of his interest in the horses Benefactor, Azalea, W. W. Hastings and Vision to L. Sierra. Itooneys- decision to quit the ranks of owners is due to pressing business that requires his undivided attention. J. B. CAMPBELL WILL NOT OFFICIATE. J. B. Campbell, who served as racing secretary at the last Jefferson Park meeting, announced today that he would not serve in any official capacity there during the ten daysV meeting- that followswoh the heels of the Fair Grounds racing. He expects to go to Hot Springs from here1 and arrange de-. tails for the Oaklawn racing, where he will be the racing secretary and associate judge. E. C. Smith, who has bee.ii serving as; associate judge, will occupy a similar position at -Jefferson Park during the racing there. Smith served as one of the stewards at Jefferson Park during the initial meeting held there. Bondages double stake victories in his last starts are responsible for an allotment of 122 pounds in, the Washington Birthday Handicap, to" be- run orf Saturday. Courtship is assigned 115 and Slippery Elm 11:5 pounds in the same race. . F. Heavener, who intends to campaign extensively on Pacific-northwest tracks next summer, and who is in quest of good racing material, secured on private terms today the horse Penper from C. R. Richards and Grayson from II. Moore. Both horses will be shipped to Walla Walla, Wash., and engage in the racing there. W. C. Weant will send a division of horses to Hot Springs to await the opening of Oaklawn and will campaign a string at Jefferson Park during the racing there. He also decided to sell at auction about fifteen head and they will be put under the hammer in the paddock February 21. J. O. Talliott and B. J. Brannon will also dispose of some of their surplus racing material at the same time. Mii.ii Cohlblatt will ship the horses racing in his colors and hose he has in charge for H. P. Whitney to Hot Springs about the first of the month. Another hard rainstorm visited the track shortly after the running of the last race and indications are for more mud racing in the next few days.
