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HEAVY AT JEFFERSON PARK , 4 More Rain Reduces the Track to About Its Worst Condition. ♦ • Superb Proves Himself a Good Mud Runner — Dixie Carroll Wins the Main Race. » NEW ORLEANS. La., March 10— A Change from the recent invasion of chilly weaiher to decidedly warmer br ought rain alone with it. and tin- .le-ffer--• i: Park track wa- deep and hahlWIg today. As a resalt -low time was scored and moot of the favorites vv.re beaten. Necessarily the attendance was -onicwhat below the general good arernge of the nicotine The customary opening dash for two joai-olda disclosed a real mud runner in the Superman eolt Superb. He was the po-t favorite after baring been backed down from o to 1 to 11 to "e. Imlef Lykes -killful guidance he took the lead at once, and simply running away from the others won palling up by six lengths. Buddie Kean struggled mi gamely and outstayed Oh Tea for second place by. a half length. Mary Krb raced promisingly. Dixie Carroll has been expelled to win a jl ad race for some- time, back and after several disappointments made good in the fifth dash of today. It wa- a cood betting raee in which Opportunitys well-known mad running capabilities served to give him tin- post of honor as a well backed favorite, lb- fiattereil by making tie- ranalag to the last turn, while l.yke- brought Dixie Carroll up and. tuking the lead after entering tin- stretch, the geh»i lag won a good raee by a length. Ilaeiii.in Ii id ii.. -. ,| Opportunity also and was a fast going see-oial. the favorite- saving second money. opportunity stayed well enoagh when a three-year-old. bin his racers lure this winte-r hive been lhos of a sprinter only. He may do better later oil a Kentucky racing. For same, re ansa it lias happened of late that the -econd race here has fallen to a line priced horse-, and today iurnisheci no exception. Pnrrhdi at .! to 1 was the lucky one today. He was avva.v first and there he stayed to the fini-.i. winning by a good two lengths from Alt Ve/ina. which i-racing well at present. Unntermana t.eok the third race as easily as Parrish won Urn sec sad. He had bees expected for soi.ii. time, ami anasiag Tiger Uo-e when called on won without trouble from the latter. Cortland was a hot favorite here, but third was the best he COUhl do. and there was no good ren-on for the preference accorded him. General Mesrop Naaganatiaa and Lady Anne Xaxgapetiaa were visitors at the track this afternoon with a party ami occupied prominent boxes, liie General expressed his gratitude to the Jefferson Park managtmtal for their aid in making the recent Aiinenian Belief Fund Day a successful one.. The appeal for aid oil that. Occasion m t with generous response from the racing people here. Jockeys Wakoff and Bodrignea were each fined by the starter for ah* bedleace at the past. Langden waa so badly broken down after a workout over the Fair Grenada course this morning that he will have to be destroyed. Westwood is oin along steadily in his preparations with a view to startiag in the Louisiana Derby next Wednesday, the la-l racing day hear. Sam Mclteekia, the well-known Kentucky turf writer, wa- ameag the visitor* this afternoon.
