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PROMISE OF GOOD RACING THIS WEEK Fair Grounds Meeting to Close Next Week with General Pershing a Guebt. NEW ORLEANS, La.. February B. Present Indications ate that the final full week of the Fair Grounds rachtg season will be ushered in tomorrow i in. der the asset pleasing conditions of the winter] to date. A summer tempt ratine prevailed today, and the course was in better condition than at any time -ince the meeting opened. As a result there were more hor-es out for gaOope this morning than in a long while, and it was nearly noon before the track was clear of them. The continued Improvement in track conditions last Week resulted in high el;;-- racing, and the Saturday program was the best ever offered In the recent history of the siort in this city. Many homes which had been in enforced idleness for several week* because of a muddy course were seen in action, especially those of the better cbtss, and they lent considerable interest to Ihe roateats. t m«Ch .in be -.1 ill i I tae ability of the race-get rs to pick winners on a Tasi track, a- only fourteen choices were victorious daring the pas; si days in forty -two races run. This made ninety -live winning favorites at the meeting in two hundred and thirty -one races. ,si-. edde-ea choices wrat to the post hist week and only two of them won. Hor-es at le-- than eve, is have had tin-worst of it all through the asnetbsg, twenty one ef them having won. while twentv-five were defeated. s. A. Clopton. who heads the list of purse winning owners here, failed to win a race last week. but Plenty finished second for him in the Martin n carman Handicap, adding fl,ow8 to his account, and this enabled him to hold his lead, although by only a small margin over Harry Payne Whitney. The Clopton horses have earned ,961 for their owner, while the Whilney racers have placed .44l to the credit of the New York turfman, a difference .of only sr.lii. A singulnr coincidence in connection witli the race for honor- between these two owners is that Plnflsn i- looking after the Whitney heraea during i he illness ,,f Albert Simons, their regular trainer, .and he won with iwo of t .Kin Saturday Champagne and Damask. LEADING MONEY WINNING OWNERS. In thirty-three days, the Business Mens liaeing Assoeiation has given away :J1S9,I00 and it has been distributed among an even two hundred owners Others besides Clopton and Whitney who have met willi a large measure of success are ;. W. Fonnan. ,858.30; Sunuylaiid Stable. .»3.-|.L"i; . W. lark. Nl. MO; John M. Goode, ,S8S.ir»; Miai Shields. S4.04I!: . V Fi-.-eniHii. .6U; M. Quinn .sH.:!7r.; Mar-hall Brothers, ,100 and M .1. Murphy. ,021. Jockey Frank Celtilettl managed to -et through his ten days saspeasien without losing the lead of tin- local riding cehnay, bul it has narrowed down to a margin of three victories over Steve id i Celtilettl has wen twenty-sis race-, and Wida twenty tiin-e. The veteran Eddie Ambrose is next in line, lie having piloted twenty winner-. The best riding la-t week again was done by jockey George Stack, with six Victories in as mam days. He ha- won sixteen raees at tie- meeting and. unlike mo-t apprentice boys, some of them have been mi green tw o-yeur-old-. Mighty - four jockeys have accepted mounts at the Pair Grounds thus far, and forty-seven of them have won MM or mere races. Gen. John J. Perahiag will lie a guest of the city of New Orleans on February Hi ami 17. He will be extended an invitation to attend the races on Ihe latter date which will be Mardi Ira- day and the closing day at the Fair irounds. In honor of the distinguished warrior, racing secretary Mi -Meiinan will put on an Old dory Purse, llaig Parse, General Pershing Handicap. Pock Purse ami Argonae Claiming Purse, in addition to the ,000 .•idded Mardi Iras Handicap.
