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HEAD AND NECK FINISHES ♦ i Feature Saturdays Racing at the Fair Grounds. i • Chief Defeats Omond in Great Race in the Trulane Handicap — Bringhurst Wins. • XF.W" ORLEANS, La., January :i. — An overflowing attendance, genial weather. :i fast track and r.i|iiiai racing marked the first Saturdays racing of the present Fair Croiuuls meeting. In point of value the fourth was the feature race of the afternoon. It was productive of an exciting finisli, in which Chief barely lasted bang onmrgh to defeat Omond by a short lieail. with every probability that the latter would have won ]iad his rider brought Jiim iuto action a hit sooner, lananian was a goad third. Courtship are token that he is al out ready for a good race by setting a fast pace to midway of the streteh. Ile- first raee was for two-year-olds, at the customary I lire" -eighths, with Schorrs Joe Mancini, by reason if las good race on the opening day. a hot favorite. But the winner turned np in the Von Tromp filly Laadaead at a Ions price, while Natalie, another first-time starter, nosing the favorite out for second place.
