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MUD RUNNERS TO HOLD SWAY i • i Continued Heavy Going Indicated For Fair Grounds Track. i ♦ — Clopton Stable Still Heads Winning Owners with Whitney Stable Second. i 1 MEW OBLF.ANS. La.. Ta— a If 28.— More mini raring h ta prespeet for the greater part, if not ill of ill" iwnmI week at the Pair Breaada. The twenty -lour hour steady downpour of rain, which began early Saturday morning, was followed b.v I miaty ran today and the coarse la now deeper in mud than .it ;iny time this winter. Incidentally j Ik- temperature took ■ garni ramble today, aad as the Breather firerast. which is far continued eaM far several days, looks like it will ! ■ Bene out. The drying out process of the track is sure to be rather slow. On only six of the twont.v-on" raring days to date lias the Pair Orounds track been fast, two of them beiag last week. Ordinarily this would work ta a ■Teat disadvantage to the racing association in the way of attendance, hut the daily gatherings at the hi il coarse this year have far exceeded other years, day for day. and it is becoming larger as the meeting progresses. On Saturday it rained steadily and hard all afternoon, but the spacious grandstand was jammed to capacity, the crowd lw-ng much larger than on many sunny afternoons in previous years. The only really serious drawback to the mud racing at the Fair Grenade is thai the harnee have to run wide, as the outside is the best part of the track. They have become well accustom d to it b.v now as they have had b.v far more of this kind of running than in against the rail: also in the mornings they are forced to work around the continue to prove elusive at the Fair Grounds, especially those of the odds -on variety. Eighteen choices wan in forty-two races last week, bringing the total up to sixty -one for the meeting to date in one hundred and forty-seven races. Eight horses, with prices at less than even money, went to the post ill the pa-t s.x days and only three of them were returned winners. Thirty-two MMh-oii favorites haw raced here and fifteen of them won. In the two days that the track was fast last week only three favorites scored. The form bickers seemed completely lost when track conditions , hanged. CLOPTON WINNINGS OVER ,000. Only one victory fell the way of the S. A. Clopton stable last week, that being by Bullet Proof, which was purchased from K. U. Bradley on Friday and won Saturday. His win and a couple of placed horses added SSL.", to the Clopton pane earning-. which now total SO. 721. No other owner has attained this high figure. Harry Payne Whitney being next in order with ,881 to his credit. Ta date the Business Mens Bacing Association has given away 17,280 in twenty -one days, and it has been shared by one hundred and sixty-four owners. Thirty-nine of them have taken down •1,000 or more. Alihoiigh jockey Frank Coltiletti is still at the top of the list of winning riders In- had a slump last week and wen only three race-, making twenty - five victories since the meeting earned. This was his worst week since the inauguration of the winter racing -eas in al Jefferson Park last Novcmbei . Pear winners ill six day- give- jockey Ambrose a total of fourteen, and hi- percentage i- still by far the beat, a- he has Bad only Iwei.ty nine mounts. With only six of them did he finish unplaced. The diminutive jockey. Steve Wida added six victories te hi- credit last week, and he i- right • in Ambrose"- h«- 1-. wiih thirteen winners. Cliff Boblaaea is -till away off ram hi- beat form, as nne winner in the naal twelve racing days i- his reeeat record. Ilerritt Buxton is one of the old timers who is slow about getting to goiug. its he has not wen a race this year thus far in twenty five mount-. Seventy - nine jockeys have ridden at tha local meeting. Marauder, which was recently claimed by .1. Ilc-PberMa, waa again claimed ye-terday out of the -ixtli race by II. Oata for ,788. It ii. Goad, reprcecated in the sixth race snr.tr - .1. v by F.l Key. claimed N. K. Bc-il for 2888. Judge David came out of his race ye-terday in a bad way. having been jumped on during the running of it. After S. A. Clapton received ,008 for Bissnle-i ..ii. he Immediately reinvested thai ram by par-ubnsing Bullet lroof from B. R. Bradley. Jockey -I. Morys left h.re ystcrday for Tijuana. Amos .larmon. lam i -heriff of Helena. Ark., and at one time interest, d la the stable now cam paigned by .1. I.. Salomon, i- among the reeeat nr- arrivals here.
