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JACK HARE JR. IS BEATEN ♦ ■ Loses to Enmity in a Close Finish Because Badly Ridden. « Peerage Wins the Race for Two-Year-Olds — Opportunity Takes Another. « m:v Orleans. La., January 10.— Jack Hare Jr.. W. K. Ai i l--«:iT "-~ crack, registered bid second defeat ipf the local season, bat unlike hi-~ previous race bo was ix-si this afternean ;in l only tin- blunders if hi- rider, W. Wright, brought ;ii»m t aia undoing. He offered failure by ■ aeee, Bnmity lead-las Mini pan! the finish by this margin under the perfect ride th;u Robinson game liim. .Lick Bare Jr. .conceded the winner twenty-five pooada, bat ibis would have been aa easy auitter bad not Wright taken the Applegate crack .-it least fifty yards farther tbaa the winner arai g aided. Daring the Inst eigbtb lack Hare .lr. leaaaed ap as the ] ; iL -able winner, bat Booinson araa alert to danger aad worked like ;i trojnn oa Bnmity and heat hha going Just ions enough ta pass the fiaiah la advance. The pair were the outstanding contendere in the Johnny Poweua Memorial Handicap at three -quarters for ; none at ,401 and :i silver trophy that is subscribed, hut baa ta he araa by aa oaaei twice before it beoemes bis exclusive property. The race featured the program, end the peoepecl of capital tport was instrumental In attracting to the coarse the aecaad largest nathfihn ef the preaeal racing nrnaaa. Weather condition*, while aa improvement over yeatetday, were still at the win try surt. ill track waa la the worst rendition that it has been ;it liny time thi~ year and favored t lit mosi pronounced mud running type af racera. Fin-i -lies, however, wen- claae in BMal instances and created fervi 1 enthaaiaaai. The wiodnp la the fifth race was particularly ■ thriller, with the decision coins to vYoodtrap over Franklin and ;ame Oark. There waald have been a reversing of the finish in another •tride, arith i..ime Cuck the winner. Waodtrap w.-i- in the aature ■ f ■ sand thins and raced to his li.~t form, lint at that he was tacky to score. The pane tar two year-olds at three-eighths fell ta Peerage, carrying the colors of the Greentree Stable. She ran an extra game race in standing a hard drive to get lip and beat Mammy Mine in ti laat few sirides. Eye Opener, the favorite. 1 iii • i iii third place. hit de Verdun was regarded as beat in the I race and his t :i -k was an easy one. far he -ed from the start and at all times held eiib his foreni"-t raw trader, safe. Opportunity continued his unbroken record for the meeting and led hi- opponents for the entire distance in the third race to win easily from Midia. hiih took teeoad place chiefly through the baity riding Coltiletti gave Pallax. WABSWORTH S LAST DISAPPOINTS. Wadeworthl Laud, which has been racing insistently here, proved I lank di -api oint meiit ill the sixth race, Bar which he was favorite, and at the finish was tar la the rear. Belle Baberts winning easily with Deckmate getting up in the last stride to outstay Aatraea for second place. Another faltare registered by backers of favorites came in the final race when Pulaski was far back at the finish, the purse here going to 1anl Connelly. which led f r the entire race and just managed to outstay .lack K . with Btaebaaaeck la third place. The stewards Ibis afternoon approved .lames Owabey as trainer of the KuebeDtasap and Hower- ton hois,- and those of Mrs. O. I!. Potts. Ownhey. however, will be held responsible for the condition ! and insistent performances of tie horses under his care. Deekmate, Mather and Duke of Devonshire were tinned over to Clyde Phillips by hi- brother Ueorge before tin- litters departure fir Tijuana. B«ck-mate was claimed during the afternoon by L. A. Broaddus for ,800. Atta Boj 1L. which was carded to atari m the Johnny Powers .Memorial Handicap, had to be withdrawn on aoeoual of developing a high fever before • the rai i Harry Meiri— ■ reported that be i- meeting with success iii lis mi— ioii.ny efforts iii behalf ef the Tiiuana track and that about five cars of horse-will • be shipped there aex week. Among tboee contemplating shipping from here are: W Walker, C V . Springer. T. F. I.ornmnii. .1 S. Parker. C. B. Heath. W. Luke. ;. Luckey. C. O. Mahoncy. S. Lurkhart and several others. Jockey Kirachbaum intends riding at Tijuana and will leave for the coast soase time next week Jockey -I. Ballivaa was suspended for six days 1 for rough riding in the second roe yesterday. lie waa held to blame for the mixup which caused Orchid King to fall. Cormoran wa- claimed out of the second race Friday by Pal limine for ,704. Donne also secured Bnhnry ai private tenia, and intends to nee Ik r for breeding salt pasts after her racing da] - are on r Imhtada will !|"t be permitted ta atari at the Kair Ground* in future, a- she is a bleeder. O. i: Ihillip- left here yesterday afternoon With eight horse- for Tijuana.
