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MORE HEAVY TRACK RACING — , — * — Jefferson Park Going at Its Worst. but Attendance Is Large. » Ben Valet an Easy Victor in the Race for Two-Year-Olds — Sasin Beaten. ♦ SEW orlfans. La.. February 10.- There was no • h.ingo in racing conditions today. A big crowd of the faithful traveled to Jeffersoa Park and sosr fields of low elan race karoos toil through going of the niot tiring ;ind difficult kind. :ind. more satisfactory, managed to land on tin- winners with sagacious freqeency highly disgusting to the layers »f odd-. of the two -year-olds which contested the first race Ken Valet would arofcoklj bare been the favor -ile tint for some doubt as to how lie would inn in the mnd. Kuddie Kean had shown well in this *|iecialty, and with Troxlor up was made a heartily haehed first choice. Bad Ken Valet ran with nch freedom and dash in the going that he was emphatically the whole thing, leading from start to finish and winning in a canter by four lengths. The Moor, at 20 to 1. brougi.t up in second place. n head in front of No Paellas, with the latter the s:imc distance before Alberta S. Kuddie Kean was always badly beaten. No mistake was made in the selection of Ked-land as favorite for the second dash, and racing i,if.. rat !".!•! in the stretch he won by a lencth from the frequent disappointment, Kounrting Through, with Wall Street a close up third. The ancient Korfhagc ran pretty well in this race. Huron It. was picked out to win the second race and. while this good judgment was vindicated, lie was at a considerable better price than Ked-land had been. He was ihe winner from start to finish, bu: only had a half length advantage of Kireplaci at the end. with leggy C pressing them hard. This filly ran a gocd race and so did Viola Guffney. the latter making up much ground and finishing at leggy C.s saddle girths. HOTTEST FAVORITE OF DAY BEATEN. Sasin was the. hoi test favorite of the day anil went to the post ,l :! to .". ill Ihe fifth nee, but van like the litis been that l.e is and finished a had fourth to Ken Hampson. Rlue Thistle and Arbitrator. Ken Hampson won by a half length, but Arbitrator was probably the best horse in the race. However, he liecame .hogged in the stretch run mud and that cooked his chance. The lightly weighted Kirah ran well in the fourth rac - and gave Cdtilctii a winning mount, but only defeated Karley Water by a half length in tin interesting finish, with the favorite Midia third. Hadrian was iu a soft place in the sixth race anil won from Iwiniwin in a canter, while the a ell -hacked Lorena Moss had a length the best of Aztec and .luaiiita III. iu the seventh. The well -bred mare Flapper eo| into a bad place in the track in the race anil a broken le resulted. .1. PhiUlpa bought Audit y A. from Knebelkamp »V llowerton on private terms this morning and will ship her with others to Tijuana, where they will he raced. The consignment will be sent in charge uf Kelly Phillips. I. K. Howe added War Club to his string this morning at a reported Mice of ,000. The stewards here are said to have a good clue thai may eventually enable them to land the -ill -prits wiio attempted the nose sponge stuffing of Courtship at the Fair Grounds on the occasion w hen he won. .lockey Uideiiour. who was suspended during the hist Jeffersoa Park meeting for foul riding, is seeking amnesty. lockey .1. Williams is another who is pleadiag hard with the officials here for reinstatement. Happy Kuxtoii has been ordered to report to the Schwartz It rot ben stable on Hatch 1.
