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FAVORITES PROVE DELUDERS I 1 a Five of the Seven Fair Grounds Choices Meet Defeat. a Jiffy First in the Feature Race — Blaise Beats Trusty — Alca- traz Rewards Backers. XKW 0T5LKANS. La.. Pehraary 2.— Nothing out Of the ordinary was pruni-cd by the Fair Jrounds Monday card, and nothing out of the ordinary at I :ihi the deei-ion of the races. The usual big crowd was in attendance, and the spectators witnessed the downfall of most of the favorites, oily two first choice- pulling through sacCCSSfadly, they being Alcatraz in the first race and Iwiiiiwin i.i the fifth. Ihe feature race of the day. the I i i it 1 1 . found Ttppa Sahib the favorite, but he ran ui placed, solely because of the luck of a rider -:iong enough to make him do his best. Jiffy took tin- race by a half length iu a good finish, with Eulogy seeonl. a load better than Woolstoue, a bane likely to win presently. Tippo Sahib was a rioae fourth and running faster than those in front of him. Aleatrai started the favorite backers off iii good style by winning the opening dash for two year-olds, with two Brst-tiaae starters. White Mai and Handsel II.. aecaad and third respectively. This auspicious -cial-off was spoiled by quickly ai cumulating disaster-. Mali I Tr.isk was a heavily -backed favorite for the se ond race and ran well, but when it came to the finish Huron II. led her over the winning line by a length, with Fireplace a close up third. Tin- y wa- the selected one for the third rare. bat Blaise caaae through the stretch with a koimI display of speed and had a neck the best of Trusty at the end of a spirited struggle through the last eighth. Weil back Pallas naished third. While running well Joan V . Rcharr*s filly Lukes Pet struck a bad bit of going and broke her left foreleg. Iwiiiiwin has been threatening to win for some time past and the long -delayed event came about when he outstayed Contestant in the fifth race .•ad won by a length and a half. Arbitrator, run-fciat v.cll enough to finish third. The latter came in lor considerable support without justifying it. Prunes ran well enough in the sixth race to defeat the suddenly revived Ahaiae by a half length, with Bombast a close np third, ami J. C. Stone hud little trouble about running away from Larias, Paul Connelly ami Clumpy in the last eighth of the seventh. Gruaapy/ was the favorite here, but tired after racing into the lead midway of the stretch. Although S. A. Clapton is still at the top of the li-t of parse winning owners, his lead is a small om . there beiag only SottO in his favor over HarTJ Iayue Whitney. The ciopton horseS have earned |7.S2d for their owner, while those of Whitney have taken down K7.2M. The latter- -n, , — . with the exception of one race each won by Dama-k and Weady, has been with two-year-olds, of which be I. a- tin prize band shown ben to date. By virtue of the two victories of Pfrtor last week, one „f them in the slake Saturday. C. W. Clark now has SI. 110 to hi- credit. PURSE DISTRIBUTION OVER 50,000. Thus far iu twenty -seven racing days the Bacdaeaa Men.- Itacing Association has given away 33,*ajB, it ha- been shared in by lS-_ owners. Those who h.-.ve fated best iii its distribution, in addition lo the three mentioned, are the Siinnvland Stable. S1.7."r : Milo shields. S4.ll4ti: C. W. Forman. BMTt.80; " . X. ITeeinan. Xo.Mls.Hn: M. J. Murphv. ,021: M. Qaia, ,875; V. II. Dauphin. SL,.771 : J. M. C le. NL.TJM.-.: F. P. Lctellier. ,BM, j,,id Toward Cebiian. .4*3. Jockey Frank Coltiletti- lead for riding honois i- -eiioii-ly threatened, a- he was on the ground five days la-l week, and he still has the same Member of layoff days coming to him this week, due to a suspension for rough riding. He has won treaty-five races, while jockeys Eddie Ambrose and Bteve Wida are tied for second plan with eighteen victories each. The latter two are riding iu each excellent form now that the gap between them ami Coltiletti is comparatively -mall, ami aae or both .,f them ha- a line ehnace to catch him. The best showing of any jockey here last week was made by George Mack, who piloted- seven winners in -ix day-. Thi- lad came here a non-winner and won hi- first race at the recent Jefferson Park meeting. lie has developed rapidly. UBd hi- -eiviee. are mach in demand. He weighs only ninety-nine pounds, and he is under contract to M o-e Loweii-ioin. His finish on Pictor Saturday wcnhl have d credit to a much older and experienced rider. Cliff Bohiaaon seems utterly helpless in his effort to get out of hi- slump. He ha- w.m two races In three week-, ami he freipiently rode this many ii. a day and sometimes more before he Jost his five pounds apprentice allowance. The Edward V. llaghV Memorial pur-e. a race run annually at the Fair Grounds as a tribute to the memory of the former well known racing official, will be decided on next Italnida ■ :. I. I.ryan. one of the leading spit Its in the .Ii ffera a Iark track, returned Monday to New Orleans after a twenty days journey iu California. John Walters, trainer for George M. Hendries horses, was an arrival today from Nashville. Tenn., when aaaae of the Hemirie horses are quartered. C. V.. Daly bought at pivate tit ins the gray colt Le IJalalre from Sam I ouis. Reports from Maryland are to the effect tliat severe woathe,- in that -ection is serving to retard ti. ining operations, particularly the scaoaliag of youngsters. • Luke- Pet was destroyed a- a result of breaking li i lit i foreleg above the ankle in the third race. She was in a contending position, when sffe stepped into a In le and snapped her leg. Freeland Hendricks of Philadelphia. iniporisl pi tentate of the Bhilwia, prceenlod in person ,n in.tiii-ome silver cup to jockey Thurber. rider of Jiffy, winner of the Freeland Keudricks Handicap. Mr. Keudricks and other high dignitaries in Shrine-tloui witucssed the race as cuesta of the stewards.
