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MORE MUDDY TRACK RACING • 1 Fair Grounds Going Bad, but Attendance Is Excellent. r : » i Chief Proves Best in the Main Race of the Day — The Boy Wins Again. o NSW 0RLFANS. La.. January IS.— hlad racing was again Hie rule here and the fields in most of the dashes njeta of small size, but in several of them the better grade hoi -os roatested and brought ab hi: some latereetiag fialsbes. The si iff going again required Stoat timber to race through il successfully, and the more experienced riders kept their mounts on the outer part of the course, even though it entailed a loss of ground, fir Hie footing away from lh e inner rail was firmer. The SLINK! mile purse broutrht to the peat me excellent performers, and ii proved an easy affair for Chief. Which drew away in Hie stretch to win with speed in reserve, Hie battle for second place being a *nirited one. with Bolster Just managing to outstay Breeae. The latter made his first appearance since his thiumphant Jefferson Part career, and his showing this afternoon indicated that he was a trifle short, for he Hied in the last aaarter. Minute Man. because of his light weight and well known ability to run in heavy poiag, was an overw Helming favorite in the third race, a three-quarters -print, but he proved a dismal failure. The Hoy beatng him easily under Lykes skillful ride. It was the first winning mount of the real lor this Jockey, and he made it a double for the afternoon When he brought Haldol de Verdun home in Hie sixth race. The opener witnessed the liewnfall of Sky Blue, an outstanding favorite, carrying the colors of II. I. Whiiiicy. The winner turned up in K.lward Cebiians Qaeen of Trumps, alertly ridden by "Mud dy " .lass Mail at lite Dixon was her closest con lender from the start, and Sky l.lue had to be ridden i ard lo land third place. MIDIA DISAPPOINTS ADMIRERS. Midia and On High were the favored ones in the se.ond race, but aeitber succeeded in getting a part of the purse. BedgCgiaaa winning easily from I.ecs Wing, with the well meant Copyright landing in third |il. in Little Cottage was the em- preferred in the fifth race, bul the best he casual do was to land a distant third. Paul Connelly again figuring in a winning performance, his second in three days. The final race went to Hen. Rjrag, which had to be roused up hard near the end to outstay the suddenly Improved Uarsbaa, which came with a rush in the last sixteeath and overhauled Pahtaki for second place. J. 1". Smith, a former Steeplechase rider and trainer of Weary, was ruled off the turf this afternoon by the stewards for violation of rule 231 of racing rules. The specific offense for which Smith was haafaased was that he. without Hie cons m of trainer Farrell. approached jockey Class and offered to get a bet for him whenever the jockey thong hi he could win. The bet was made in the first race Saturday, in which Hlass had the mount on Mammy o Mine. Trainer Farrell of the Cehriau stable had no knowledge of the affair and the bet for the jockey was not made with the trainers consent. The action of the stewards will have a tendency to discourage the practice of making bets for some of Hie riders here. C. W. Crippea is the latest to announce his intention of shipping to Tijuana and will leave tomorrow. Harry UonisstJ departs for Tijuana tomorrow. He succeeded in getting about seventy horses to ship from her ■ by his missionary work. The remains of Jack Shannon, who died recently of heart disease, will be placed in a vaull tomorrow in the Greeawaad cemetery and. later, transferred to Batter, Kansas, for interment. Todays attendanis- was again an extensive one. considering the unpropitious weather. The volume of speculation was also up to the former big standards. Skinny I... starting in the last race fell lame, and his racing career is probably terminated.
