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LOUISIANA DERBY NEAR B Jefferson Parks Culminating Race Due Next Wednesday W H Howe Bemaining in Hacing Owners Finding Horse HorseCars Cars Difficult to Obtain MV ORLEANS LA March 14 Racing for the I resent winter season will terminate mi next Wed nrsdiiy Iliit tiny marking the ninetysixth since Thanksgiving Diy TJiis is the longest duration cl In sport since its revival in this section in llr For the first thin tlio most days of the raring wore conducted sit Jefferson Park this winter the two nuHtings there embracing fiftyfive dtvs MS against forty one it tlie Fair Grounds Iotli racing sisso i nl inns prsporod is the season his been the liest o r from every Jingle and their prosperity was re ¬ flected in the excellent purse offerings which wort thr I irgost for a winter meeting in local history historyThe The 1 000 added IMiisiana Derby will be decided n the Hosing diy of Hie meeting This race i Xi p led to prove the drawing card of tho year as th best three yearolds here will clash in it Unmask from the Harry Payne Whitney Stable is still hold in tin most esteem by the racegoers hero and he probably will go to the ost at a fairly sliort price He has not meed since early in tin1 present meeting but his workouts are excellent and lie is as fit as hands can make him He was given a workout of one mile in 141 several mornings ago and lie ccitlcl Imvo gout faster but for being re ¬ strained by his rider riderSimplHon SimplHon appears to be his most formidable rival although iniiiiy of the horsomeii and dockers Niy that it will lie Westwootl In fact quite a few OAIKTS and trainers havi announced their intention of backing the latter horse un the strength of his training gallops which have been unusually fast Jut for the adverse weather and track conditions trainer Trotter would have raced Wostwood several times by now but every time that he had him en ¬ tered a fresh rain would come up forcing him tu withdraw him himIt It t ok Simpleton quite a long time to show his real form this winter and for a while many labored under tin impression that O Itogers his present owner had been decidedly worsted when he gave SVitJO fur him Then of a sudden he became ui of the best threeyearolds here He stay well over a considerable route of ground and can arry weight as his victory recently with 114 IK unds up demonstrated demonstratedrullet rullet Prooi failed when put to the task ol shouldering heavy weight several days ago He waf fcvns an impost of pound to carry over the ritc of one mile and a sixteenth and for three u rters gave his backers carsc to enthuse as he r n in a contending position Then the weight t 1 and he dropped liak badly lie will have a lirttly siff package of weight on him in the Louisi ¬ ana Derby but lit will have to show to much better idv triage than he has been doing under tliisj condi ¬ tion if he is to get anything anythingBUEAD BUEAD MAN A SUKE STARTEK STARTEKThere There are several other threeyearolds including Prcad JIaii Allivan Ceneral Glenn and SI Ger ¬ main which have been showing fair form here this WiiM they may form part of the Derby field JroTid Man i almost a sure starter as his owner Airs O Tolls is remaining hero to see the race n n and she also has namtd this horse for the Kntwky Derby DerbyW W JI Itowc Shreveport millionaire oil magnate hd a short but sweet active career on the turf Listing only several weeks during which time lie picod perhaps several hundred thousand dollars in n ion Pressing business forced him to turn his hordes back to 1 vVagiion who will race them in i lie name of the Pelican Stable Kowo will stil be financially interested in them the stable which is be conducted in much the same manner as is t it of Edward Sims the horses of which run in the name of 1 W MiHolland MiHollandI I am not giving up my stable and the pleasure of racing because of dissatisfaction said KoWc because in realty 1 have become fonder of it every day It has been i genuine holiday for me to have engaged in it both as a spectator and an owner I am yielding to importunities of my business asso ¬ ciates to get away from the turf for the present and devote my full time to several pressing business mtiers I have every desire of agin in the near future seeing my silks carried to victory H is my amlitioii to possess horses of championship class dependable of always giving a good account of tlmnsolves when in competition witli the best thor ¬ oughbreds in the land landUowo Uowo fared pretty well financially during his brief engagement in racing lie won several wugors of large amounts on his own horses to say nothing of those on outsiders It was not a ques ¬ tion with him as to how much to bet but rather how much the layers would take He found that line oraliors hero would take quite a bit of money His commissioners were a busy group whenever he d oulcil to unload on some horse horseTh Th Mastcrson and Itogcrs Stable the leading purse winning establishment of the present meet ¬ ing Mill remain here until about the middle of April when it will be sent to Lvxington Ky lohn Mastorson one of the members of the firm was confined to his bed for three weeks with illness ami lie will leave in a few days for Hot Springs Ark to spend a inuiith inuiithPat Pat Knebolkamp is another owner who plans to leave his horses here until well along in April Ho will depart next week for Kentucky and trainer J S Ownboy will remain here with the stable The Kncbulkamp racers will be sent direct to Ixxington IxxingtonNot Not even u promise of a horse car can be ob ¬ tained by horsemen here now the railroad officials saying hat they cannot get them at any speoifkd time and the owners will have to take them as they come in As fast as a car is sent out it is unloaded and sent back but many of the horse ¬ men will be a long linn in gelling away it is feared The ears an scattered all over the coun ¬ try nnd much confusion has to be overcome in tracing them the railroad men ulkte Judge Joseph A Murphy will depart for his home in St Louis soon sifter the Jefferson Park meeting ends while judge Francis J Nelson will go tu Toronto Out The other officials likewise will not be long in leaving with the exception of racing secretary J It Campbell who lives here Herman P onkling will go to Now York and thence to Paltimore and Wash Norvoll will also go to Mary ¬ land Starter Edward Tribe again will send t In ¬ fields away at Howie and he will go there frum here Judge Murphy will again be in the stand at Howie HowieLoyal Loyal Sweeper twoyearold son of Wills Iroom II Isyal which was badly injured at the Fair Grounds and which gave promise of being the best youngster in the Harry Payne Whitney stable here has recovered sufficiently to be shipped to Hod Pank X J where he will be rested for the remainder of the year In the event that he does not recover entirly he will be used for stud duly in later years but Dr Talbot is of the opinion that he again will be able to race raceJ J L Paul is training the O A Pianchi horses here now and won witli the first one that lie sent to the post Itcdhtnd Pianchi is busy in getting others of his string ready for the coming Kentucky racing season and had to leuvc for Lexington several weeks ago agoMany Many owners are disposing of their cheaper horses now as they do not want to take them back north where the competition will bo too stiff for most of them There is a ready market here this winter for practically any kind of a horse because of the niimcr us horsemen who plan to race in the fat west at Tijuana Keno Cheyenne and other points There nppfars to be a scarcity of thorough ¬ breds in tUiit section uow
