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PLAN APPROPRIATE FINALE. ♦ i For Closing of Successful Meeting at the Fair Grounds. ■ ■ • * Jefferson Park to Open Wednesday — Same Staff of Officials to Preside. i i SEW oRLF.ANS. La., February 15.— When UN Fair Grounds meeting ends oil February IT. the members of tlic Business Unii Racing Association of ihis city will im vt- just cause in be proud "f the sport tli.it they provided luting the 1020 season. Horses that wiiT never before neea la action mi ■ winter track raced lure. ami the attendance each day would have done credit to many of the Inspor-;:mt eootaec la the aarth and -n ~-t . The long stretch ■ r rainy weather affected aothlaf hat the track proper, aad even with muddy gulag prevailing far almost ■ iiiontli ninny of the better class af boraei raet d regularly. As | fitting climax to such :t great meeting ■ program hi lx-im: arranged by racing netrrlnip •|m Mei.eniKin for the closing day that hi calculated to In-ing out ;i 1 1 af the atari here. It i- expected that General .loiui .. I*r nhing will be a attest of the racing association aa that day, aa an invitation baa li-en tendered liim and lie lias always shown a liking for the thoroughbred and racing. There will be iu interruption of the sport with the change i Jefferaea Park Wednesday. Barries will be taken at bath tracks Tuesday morning, and thoaa owners w.o plan to stable at the Shrew slmry course can move over within a few hours. Erery-tliiac * " reudrnesa at Jefferson Park and papula- I ndilit A. Rouprieh says that the track is even faster than last autumn, when so many track r*C-ordja were lowered. Tln officials for the earning Jefferson Park meeting will be the same as at the previous one. with judges Francis .1. Nelson. Joseph A. Murphy ind Herman P. Conkling ■a|M 1 1 Islng the racing. There will lie no dearth of horses, for there arc to many here now that even with additional departure* for Tijuana. Kentucky and Maryland, there will ■till he an excess. That waa tin- only drawback to i lie previous Jefferson Iark meeting— there mere ioo many borne* and many of them had to await their turn on the "throw-out list" before they were ..Id. lo race. THINK WELL OF TROUTBECK. Edward Cebriaa, California breeder, is retting an opportunity to see his horses in races here. : i ml il.is rather a treat for him nowadays, as he docs not often get a chance to witness racing. lli-large ■table at the Fair Orowadu is In two divisions, the older horses being under the care of John I.owe. while 11. Parrel] has charge of the two year .Ids. Mr. Yfariuu came here from Lexington, Kj . where Up went to inspect Traatbeck. aoted English stallion, which he recently purchased. "Troutbeck is a K|»l iidid looking borae and one that I am sure will not li" long in making his mark as a aire in this country. aid Mr. Cebriaa, "and 1 will give him every uppoiiunlty to make good. Most of my lest mares are now at Lexington and he will have the pick of them. My old reliable Con Troeap is also ..: Lexington and looking finer than ever. 1 can always depend on thin fellow to aire winners and he seems to gel better as he grows older." Another breeder upending Rome time here is ;. I.. Blackford of Dtalaaa, Texas, who has a large stable of 1 wo year -olds at the Fair .rounds in charge of trainer K. . "IMck"! festal. Mr Klacfcfard has the • I ststtioa Ueelick at his place ml bin voting horses here are the progeny of that sire. Although the Blackford horse* have proved l ailures iiiiis tar this winter; their owner is apt I misiie as i,i the future and he is confident that they will show improvement later r:: the year. Tiny did nit train as well as was expected of them and the long spell of bad weather an.: a muddy truck set tliem back more than ever. WILL NOT BE LOST TO RACING. Loyal Su.cpcr. one of the best of the Harry Payne w: iiney two-year-olds lure, which was la- jnred S n ral weekfi ago when he bolted through a gap ia lei fence, will not be |oal to racing, accord ing to Dr. Talbot, the Veterinarian, who is attend Ittg aim. The son of Whisk Itroom II. Loyal is so badly hurl that he will be on the shelf for a long time, tin- phyaiciaa aver*, but not f hi- injuries i- ..f a permanent nature. Jockej C. Peace, who was kajarod in a fall from Mis- Manage at the Fair Ground* on January 2, is m ii on crutches, and it probably will lie another month or mere before le will be able lo lid.- again, p. in e is ;i young lid Just -tailing out as a race rider, he having ridden his first winner at the recent Jefferson Park meeting. He i- employed h. til "l gC Iclctsoll S. . Ntick. Is. Jr.. one of tiie siiuaii:- a; the Pair t rounds, and i«ecrctarj of lie- Kentucky Stale Itacjng i .immis .ion. will leave i. f Lexington, Ivy. • •i. the night of February 17. the final daj of the I t.t race meeting. lie s.iil that he is in the dark a- lo tin- date of the aexl meeting af Ine i K*ion. Mr. Nnckobi is also a steward on Hie Kentucky circuit . Soon after the wlnshtp at the Fair Ground* I icins secretary Joe McLennan will leave for N.-w fork, where In will spend a few wnk- on busincsa in Hon with tin- in.. Hacks b] which lo- will be employed next spring and sum He i- at work .a Ins prog-am book for tin Bowie meeting now . ;. I. Bryan, Jr.. paid a i-it to Toronto. Out.. last week, o*ten*ibly on busines* connected with his Thorncliffe Park interests. II. wan away cul a short time, aa be had to return . tea* after the details in connection with the opening of He- lef femon Park race meeting on next Wednesday. IVcatwood, lor which W. K. Harrington gave 2,000 as a two-ycai old last spring, and which t-i Lite has failed to win a race for him. is training in ■:..,.; fashion sad in- "ill be extensively entered in smk, io be ran In Kentucky aexl spriag. Ue weni ami** during the sunimei and has been resting up since. Trainer Fd I roller has worked hard on hini. and lie t.-els confident that lie will make uinenilb for his failure to Avin la* t year.
