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I FIRST, BUT WAS DISQUALIFIED ♦ 1 Due de Guise Leads All the Way, but Fouls Speedy Foot. ♦ i Morning- Face Runs Another Good Race — Apple Jack II. Easily Outpaces His Rivals. ■ ♦ i NF.W ORLEANS, l.a.. March 5.— You cant gu.-s efficiently about New Orleans weather nowadays. Yesterday it was hilly and the track was heavy, engendering gloomy forebodings of more of the same brand to follow on. Bad today opened up bright and sunshiny. So everybody cheered up and went "in to Jefferson Park to find the going anraadaingly improved, not fast, but -uf f ieh • 1 1 1 1 , g 1 to afford emu for table footing for tin* heraes. S. A. Clopton- Due de Guise furnished the main incident •■ the afternoon. Thi- colt and been arorh bag well, a fact .ilently known to many. He was making hi- fir-t star; here, and wilh TVoxler in the saddle ruled the favorite for the third lace. Moreover, be took the lead at aaare and kept it all the way. Kit* racing has many eaattBgenctea, and he did not get the ra.e. In the last sixteenth he look an unruly notion to cross over and bump Speedy I.,- t sharply. The foul wa- plain and he waa promptly disnaaUfied. Thi- gave the race •1 Speedy Peat, with the lno to 1 chance Gorham •econd and only beatCB a neck behind him Neg tank rhird motley. The Pirate wa- heavily hacked to win ihi- race, but aceaaasT infected with the -low- and was never prominent in the running. 1 ii.- two year old- iiete a I -, a i - furnish interesting " tests and .lid -o today. Maekeiuaiiie. Iieeaa-o ridden by Troxler, was sfigktly the favorite, hut Morning Face. Aunt Deda. .ioe C.iiilnian and Coombs all came in for good bat king. After Aunt Deda had set a fa-t pace Morning Face challenged I or. and in a sharply contested finish woe from her by a half length, with .Ioe Goodman a similar distance farther buck. The favorite finished next. Apple .lack II. i- a -peedy -printer and was made an Mil money favorite for the fifth race. IK justified ihi- publicly nianife-ted appraisal of his worth by winning every foot of the raeea three -quarters. Stepson furnished the surprise by *Ut-Bpeediug Dixie Carroll and taking nc r Had place. Toe tie Mark had some hopeful backing ami finished a goad fourth. Apple Jack II. won by an easy Three lengths, with Stepeea a length before Dixie Carroll. Tin French colt Satana had no trouble about. winning th • third race, a dash of five and a half furlongs, for maiden-. Durella ran well and out stayed Humana for aecaaad place, flat ana aeeaaa to be speedy and may be able to beat better horse- thaa he met today. Bed Domino showed intih improvement and speed in the fourth race. Backed down from 1.". to 1 to s to 1. he strode into the lead on the backatretch and. drawing far away, won palled up b] eight lengths, with Challenger second and Peggy C. third. The favorite. Edith K.. was never in hailing distance of the leaders. W II. Backner ran one of his occasionally good race- and defeated Grumpy and Willdo in the -ixth lice, and ancient Bine Thistle made an example of his opponents in the seventh. Peter Bkaag has arranged to leave here tomorrow for an extended visit to California. The judges exonerated jockey Troxler from all blame in the Due de l.iti-e foaling ease, holding the horse to blame for the interference with Speedy Foot. Judge Mom k. exteasively indeutified with the Hamilton Jockey Club, returned today from a visit to Havana anil will remain several day- before continuing en to Hamilton. K. A. Smith, for whom .1. Pierce is riding here, has been advised by trainer Max Hirach, who holds tin* contract on the jockey, that the Loft string of racers were leaving New York today for Louis villc and to instruct Fierce to report then ,i- men a- the Jefferson Park meeting concludes.
