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FAVORITES BRING DISTRESS Success of First Choice at Jefferson Park a Feature. Hundreds of Bowie Horses Due to Arrive This Week Good Weather Prevails. BY J. L. DEMPSEY. NEW ORLEANS, La., November 28. Relief from the cold weather of yesterday came today and the sunshine not only improved climatic conditions considerably, but it also dried out the Jefferson Bark race track to such an extent that it will probably be fast Monday. The "dogs" were up at both Jefferson Park and the Fair Grounds this morning, but the two courses were crowded witli horses until well along toward noon. At tlie close of the exercising period harrows were put on the Shrewsbury course and kept there until dark. Although the meeting is only three days old the oralizers are beginning to fly the distress signal already, as they have been subjected to an awful drubbing thus far. On tlie first day five pronounced favorites and two equal choices won; The next day two of tlie most favored ones and a couple of well-backed "good things" came home in front and, to cap the climax, on Saturday all choices scored. As a result of this display of form quite a number of hank rojls have been shot to pieces and a few of the odds backers have been forced to take the count. Stalls are. reserved at the .two local tracks for Several hundred "horses, which are due from Bowie the latter part of the week. Starter Edward Tribe, Whose place is bing filled at Jefferson Park by James Osborn, plans to leave Baltimore Tuesday night and he will take up his duties at Jefferson Park on Thursday. The task of schooling the yearlings at the barrier will begin Wednesday morning at the Fair Grounds by Osborn and Hamilton, both of whom are assistants to starter A. B. Dade. .There are more yearlings here than ever before. Trainer C. F. Clark has seven youngsters here for J. H. Loueheim, a well-known eastern soprtsman, and all of them are the progeny of Granite and were bred by their owner. Five fillies and two colts comprise the Loueheim outfit and their dams are Devonshire Dolly, Corn Broom, Galloping Queen, Ursula Emma, Amagli, Sly Wink and Kozpie. E. W. Moore has sixteen horses in his charge at the Fair Grounds and half of the number are yearlings. A. G. Blakelys stable comprises seventeen horses, the property of five owners, including a few of his own. In this band are six yearlings. Two of the youngsters were sired by Towton Field, which raced witli much success for Blakely a few years back. The other four are the progeny of His Majesty. The names Frederick Kinney and Baby Vamp have been selected for the Towton Field juveniles, the former beiiig a bay gelding and the latter a filly of the same color. In addition to Pluribus, which gave promise of developing into one of the best two-year-olds of the year until he went amiss, trainer Tom Shannon has three yearlings in tlie T. W. OBrien stable at Jefferson Park. Pluribus is training soundly again and Shannon has high hopes for him as a racer. Trainer Archie Zimmer again will race a small section of the vast J. W. McClelland stable here this winter. English Boy, Coggle, Shamrock Flower. Wild Thoughts, Light Rose, Irish Abbess and West Indies will comprise his outfit for the winVOr racing. Jockeys Clifford Robinson and T. Jarvis, both under contract to J. W. McClelland, will report to A. Zimmer here at the end of the eastern season.
