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HOT FAIR GROUNDS FINISHES • 1 General Glenn Defeats Damask by a Nose in the Main Race. , * . Mackeluaine and Ina Kay Win by Similar Scanty Margins — Ultra Gold in a Canter. ♦ NEW ORLEANS, la., January .",.— Jockey Ambrose- riding of Danaank, a first -time starter here, and carrying the colors of H. I*. Whitney, furnished the outstanding incident of this afternoons racing. The colt was in with five others of his age in the SI .000 mile purse, which featured the card, and wa- a confidently siip]»orted favorite, hut the finish found him beaten .1 nose by Ceneral Clenn. although Damask was -eemingly best. His failure was s.delv the fault of the rider, who apparently tried to draw the finish fine, with a view of not showing up the colt. Ambrose kept him under hard restraint from abaaat the start and took a aide course, but he was good enough to take the lend shortly after reaching the stretch, then in the last eighth Ambrose brought him over alongside C Ceneral Clenn and sat perfectly stiU. Mooney ana Ceneral Ciena an extra good rid. neat the end ami won in the last stride, simpleton landing in third Ida... The steward- promptly invited Ambrose to explain his apparent li-tless effort, and the rider gave as his reason that the colt had persisted in bearing over against Ceneral Clenn. and had he resorted his whip, he would have Coaled the latter. BrMeatly the stewards were sati-fied. for they took 110 further action in the matter. Kighr two-year-olds contested the first race and Mackeluaine proved the winner by a nose from Repeat, but the latter was best and would have won but for being forced back at a critical moment. Ina Kay was a 4 to .". favorite for the second race and jts winner, hut was away badly and im-peded and had a desperate lime of it in finally getting up in time to nose Little Maudie out of first money. Hadrian ran a good race here in .losing a big gap and finishing third. Iltra Cold. R. A. Smiths consistent plater. had little difficulty in taking the third race after showing in front f-om practically the start. The finish far second place in this was a thriller. witli Etruscan getting it in the last stride from W. V . Hastings, with Ron Trump only a nose in the back of the pair. Sie-ta repeated his good performance of his last. start at Jefferson 1ark and accounted for the fifth race, with Vowell heading Iwiniwiu for second place. The locally owned Speedster and Soldat de Verdun furiii-hed an exciting struggle in the sixth race, with Speedster just managing to draw add in the last few strides to get the verdict. The filial race went to DVckmnte. the favorite, which won easily from I.ajazet and Bubbling lender. Al Kirby traded Mary Jo-cphine to J. Quinlaii for Bandyuio. and the former will be shipped to Tijuana . O. A. Bianchi bought Flyaway from J. L. Solomon and sold the latter the filly Viola Oaffuoy. Big Idea has been sold by E. R. Bradley to the Wayne Stable, for which E. T. Colton is training. President Leo Marreo of the Jefferson Iark track was aaaoag the visitor* at the track Ibis afternoon. « .
