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PLEASING RACING ON VIEW Big Crowd Witnesses Jefferson . Park Sport at Its Best. Baby Grand Adds Another to His List of Victories — Iwin Takes the Feature Contest. 4 NEW ORLEANS. Lb., Match 0. — The most captious racegoer had little to complain of at Jeffer--■pii Park this afteraaoa. The track was fast. weather i-omfhrtable and son f tin- beat banes iiiw here were in exciting competition. Ca4er tfce -imeamataaeea i big rrowd was to lie expected, : m i ii was preeeat. Tin- racing began with the cait— ry scarry for the twu-year-olds, :i ii t Baby Graad confirmed the local good opinion of him. reflected in his being m. oil- a :! to 5 choice, bjr s.-tting a awift i n -«■ and scoring an racy victory in fast time. Petaaia ran a good raro here and aatatayed the rectal victress Lucy Kali- tor -«• onil place. It may be fonnil thai Mate af the two-year-olds raciag so creditably here will be found bard to beat arhea they appear ua the northern Hacks. At Bay rate, some good judges of the waya of boraefleah tiiink so. Peecaal m maiio the favorite tor the aecoad race, bat ■ bad atari ami aa inefficient rider brought aboal h i- defeat. Blae .leans also was awaj aoae toe will, imt under a good ride was soon in forward contention, and in a fast finish had tin- lust of Bagaaaa at tin- cad by a aeck. The bitter Bel a fast pace and appeared the winner up to the last aixteentb. Peccant was a fast going third. w;r!t Corti.....! Close up. The Big race of the day araa the fifth, a dash of a mile ; ml aeveaty yards, with eaad haraea in. Of the overnight entries Chief and SI Germain were seratehed. leaving five to g... All of these except Omond came in for geed hacking, with Simpleton the favorite, lint at liberal odds. He flatten d by setting a great pace to the last six teenth. where Iwta . i nil Bondage challenged and in a grandly fought out HaiBB lwin finally prevailed by a neck, with Simpleton i aiaiUar distance in front of tin- improved Baadage. Kings champion cm a aorrj flgaae and was eight leagtha hehind Boadage. Oaaaad aeeaaa to have lost form i ompl--tely and was btatea off Lazy l.oii was aaythlag bat buy today and was an even mone-v favorite for the fourth race. She indulged I-ranklin with the lead to the atreteh, then passed him odd won from him bj a length, with IJueeB Blonde a good third Talisman. Colius slake winning daaghter of hist year, baa not beea raring well iiiis winter, bat of late has beea giving indications of retarniag form. She was beg tea I half length by the speedy Tin -B-Ling in tin third race, hut ran well enough to lie labeled dangerous in narfalta hereafter.
