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. - MORE HEAVY TRACK RACING Steady Downpour of Rain Assails Jefferson Park Course No Prospect of Good Going in Sight. NEW ORLEANS, La., December 12. Rain has fallen steadily here for more than twenty-four hours, with no sign of a let up in sight. As a result racing in the mud again will be the order of the day at Jefferson Park. The patrons of the sport here have become accustomed toadverse track conditions, however. As it was on December 3 that the last racing was conducted over a fast course, they now have a better line on the ability of the mud runners than on the horses which are best on a hard track. The downpour was at its worst during the training hours this morning and few horses were out at either Jeffer,son Park or the Fair Grounds. Both the tracks resembled rivers, water Standing on them to a depth of several inches in places. At Jefferson Park two huge suction pumps were kept working throughout Saturday night and today drawing the water off the course to prevent a repetition of the flood scenes of a couple of years back, when the unusually heavy rainfall caused a suspension of the sport for several days. Havoc has been played with public form as a result of the contiued bad track, only twelve favorites winning last week in forty-two races. This brought the total victorious eholces at the meeting this far up to fifty in one hundred and five races, and for the first time since the meeting opened the percentage of winning favorites is below the .50 mark. Saturday marked the first time at this meeting that all seven of the most favored horses were beaten. Odds-on choices were scarce during the past six days, compared with the previous week, only three of them going to the post and all three went down to defeat. Twenty-four horses at less1 than even have started at the Jefferson Park meeting, fourteen of which have been successful.. In fifteen days the Jeferson. Park track has distributed 0,900 in purse money and it has- been shared in by ..onehundredaail .tliirty-My1lw.nersJ.-The Hioris sTmreaTMirto S?CTBfl!feirt,hls horses having earned ,122.75 for him,- while "his nearest rival, Snyder and Holmes, have ,305 to their credit. Other racing establishments which have faTed well to date are the Florisant stable, ,060.50; Lloyd Gentry, ,530.73; John Dundee, ,300, and C. N. Freeman. ,140.75. Jockey C. Ponce has a slender lead over the other pilots for riding honors, he having scored ten times. He is being hard pressed however, as J. Roberts has won nine races. J. J. Mooney and F. Coltiletti have eight each, and H. Lunsford and T. Murray seven. Coltiletti seemed to go off form during the past week, losing several races that stronger riding, or better judgment, would have changed the verdicts in his favor. Despite the rain and mud racing, secretary J. B. Campbell has been enabled to get up good daily racing programs and the ,000 feature races have been filling remarkably well, the fields being small, but well matched. There are plenty of horses on hand to race in any kind of going, but many of the owners and trainers who stable at the Fair Grounds make no entries on bad days, as they do not care to load and unload their charges into the vans in the rain.
