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MORE NEW TRACK RECORDS War Garden and Mather Erase Former Marks in Their Races. . r- - Dry at Jefferson Park While Heavy Rain Falls at the Fair Grounds. .. NEW ORLEANS. La.. December 8. By a curious freak the Jefferson Park track escaped a heavv downpour of the last twelve hours that visite"! New Orleans, and todays racing was over a fast track, but with cloudy skies. The big throng fully expected the course to be a quagmire, anil they were pleasantly surprised. The constantly improving course was again responsible for the lowering of track records, the five and a half furlongs figure being lowered and the mile and tliife-sixteenths record went to smithereens when Mather established the new figure at 2:01 Vf,, as against the former one of 2:08. The 1:14 representing the three-quarters record was also equaled when The Boy made similar time. , . ... Todays racing was again close and interesting, with the public faring in- good style by landing on most of the winners. Ring action was again sharp, and the close of the afternoon found the "brokerage concerns" distressed. Their only real respite developed with .the fourth race, when George Clark and Trusty, which were backed to tin exclusion of the others, failed, the winner in this developing in A. L. Kirbys steadily improving War Garden, which won in easy style. He was conceding weight to all of the others, stayed,, close to the leadersi from the -start. and drew "out- in the .stretch " to win easily in ll0i"and, "which lowers Arnolds time by two-fifths of a second. George Clark was ridden by Ambrose, who displaced Coltiletti, but the horse ran no better for the more experienced rider and wound up jnst outside of the money. The three-quarters handicap resulted -in a lucky victory for The Boy over I win. The latter was best. but. Doyle rode her somewhat lielow liis usual good standard, with the result that The Boy had her by a scant length at the finish. Ballet Dancer II. finished third. Mather, which recently emerged from the maiden ranks, showed a fine performance in the final race, which he won in easy style from Deckmate and Capt. Hodge. There was evidently desirable material in the race, for El Bey was claimed by B. H. Good for ,100 and the winner fell to .1. Cunniffe for ,000. E. W. Moore uncovered a good one in the opening race in liis Besthoff. which was backed with rare confidence, and never left the result in doubt after he readied the stretch, where he came away to win as Robinson pleased. Thos. F. McMahoa, favorite in the second race, just did set up in time to outstay Miss Manage. The latter was ridden by Saladin and taken- all over the track, causing her to interfere sharply with several Of the others. The stewards suspended the offending rider for ten days. Miss Manage also changed ownership. C. Clime taking her for ,000. Prince Henry was another good tiling that distressed the layers, for he was. also a heavily backed one and won easily from Senator James and Sturdee. Boyle made amends for .his faulty riding of Iwin by landing Thursday Nighter a winner after a hard drive to outstay Cavan Boy and Willigan. EXCESS ENTRIES CA.USE NEW, KTJ1ING. The excess number of entries daily, and the continuous growing preferred list forced secretary Campbell to announce that on and after December 9 horses entering in races and drawn out will only receive preference in the "kind" of race from which they were eliminated. They will be given preference as to selling price 00 either Way fr6ni the entered price in the race from which they weru eliminated. Horses eliminated from maiden races shall not receive preference in iny but maiden races and horses eliminated from claiming races shall not lie preferred in allowance races. This will not affect the preferred list to date. John Hogan will train Merry Lass and others that have raced in the narte-of Mrs. V. Mauale. Water-willow, also in the string, will be denied starting here until her ownership is thoroughly established. A. J. -Pliequc. who formerly trained the horses, claims part ownership of Waterwillow. Jockey F. Coltilleti gained a firm hold on the leadership of the riding colony when he piloted Prince Henry and The Boy to victory today. The two wins made it eight for him so far, while Harry Lunsford. his nearest rival, has won only six races. Jockey Cliff Bobinson is getting too close to him. however, to be comfortable, as he scored with Besthoff in the opening race and lie had now ridden live winners. W. Warrington has also scored five times and the race for honors now bids fair to lie a hot one. Bestnoif, winner of the first race at Jefferson Park today, is named after the well-known druggist of this city. It was liis first victory, but he had only started twice previously. He was taken sick last summer at Latonia and was on the shelf throughout the autumn meetings in Kentucky. He is a sou or Assagai Bettie Sue and was bred by his owner, Edward W. Mocre of Nashville, Tenn. Seven horses have broken records in the ten days of the Jefferson Iark meeting thus far and four others have tied the three-quarters mark. Nash Turner, the well-known old-time rider, won his first purse of the meeting with The Boy.
