Many Carnival Visitors: Mardi Gras Tourists Flock to the Fair Grounds, Daily Racing Form, 1921-02-08

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MANY CARNIVAL VISITORS ♦ Mardi Gras Tourists Flock to the ! Fair Grounds. I i i ! ♦ j j ! Mawrcoron an Easy Winner — Day, I 1 Lilly First in the Feature — ; Favorites Triumph. ! i ; ♦ . imy .t. i.. dempsby. ! . S m:v oih.kans. L«., Pebruarj ?-— Big fields J with ■ feature in conned ion with todays Fnirj Graanda racing, and the sp..i t una interesting tol Ma the big crowd it carnival rMtsnt. There w re B i ii.i especially outstanding features, the seven -eighths dash foe tin-.---year old fi 1 1 i« — exclusively taking i the place of :i headline!- by virtue of it-. .500 1 parse. l»:iy Lilly. ;i pronounced f:tvi.i ito. vnrwl ! here la eaej style, arith I. my Kate la second place I i anil Doric following the pair. I Ac layers won- again need iwaghlj the success ■I • if meat "t tin- favorites ami several stanchly hacked! I •good tklngn" canning nadli depleted bankrolls. I The form ami faTsrite backers inaugurated the e| .itll -llKHiti auspiciously by the. victory of Maurcoren, ■ J carrying the celera of the ITMf a— il Part stable. • The iilt ran as If much tho best and only cantered I far must of the race. Part Light was the next favorite to will, hat hist sj margin of victory was a narrow one. Assume coining g I | with a rash right at the end ami • niy lastaiaiai g i i defeat hy I nose. i Herald, which has heea showing consistency in in | most of his recent race-, took the third race after i . a snsfare at oueatuy Archie Alexander and Harry y i j Jlurgoyne. Lads Love and Ting a-I.ing were e j I strongly hacked here, but l oth retired in the stretch. i. Tke hardest jolt that the layers received came o with Ban trys victory in the fifth race. He was is hacked by his connections with rare confidence at it j | long odds and won with the utmost ease from Madge ,. j j l and Master Hill. i The Fletcher -ilks were victorious for the first ,t ; j time in a long while, when Will o th Wisp led ,1 for the entire way in the sixth rare, but Jic had ti- ! do his heal to outstay Komper. with Charlotte C. following in third place. The favorite. Blarney v Stone, had a rough race. 1 Jockey htcDeraaotl escaped seriens injury when hi „. I ■ was unseated from Susan M. by a jam which camel l i on the first turn in the last race. j Blaraey stone was claimed from the sixth race fet M.CPtl by . I. Urookmillor. j l.ads Love was claimed for S3 Mill hy Snyder and ; , j Holmes ami Samly II. was claim, d for f 1,500 by .;. • I | Wakesnan. Jockey J J. Moonc.vs contract has been taken! * j over by John Maiino. local turfman, owner of I Mash r Bill and others. j Starter Edward Tribe was an arrival this atom it- j lug, having been aaaesjaaiated with tl handoa-1 ■-1 ntettt of the Jefferson Park meeting prior to his lv I j departure from his home in Baltimore, J. 0. Keen., men, her of the Kentucky State! ie! Racing Commission ami prominent breeder, wral s an arrival this morning to witness the closing ig I I days- lacing. 1 The horses Muskulh nge. Unfits Kiley and iiwaad-l il- Swell, ow I by "Bad" fisher, have been taken •n over by trainer A. 1.. Cardan, who will saw rvise ■el thclr raciag hereafter. Plaher departed tie- New, w York feslndaj ami will be in Kentucky far the ie opening of the racing then-. The unexpected iiuimns. atteadance caosed aa u • ■ally exhaustion of tin greatly Increased rappiy bj of programs Franh J. Braen, general manager -i the Havana; "a; track, sent advices hi ••■ tedaj that Sidney Bender er j would be an arrival Wednesday night, to assist st I owners in the transportation of their horses sad ul ; lacililit.it.- th.- souring of passports. It is known rn that a number of owners will ship to the Cuban hi .oiiise. where tie racing is scbednled to rontiaae hi for Mane time. S. A. ch-pton intends to ship a carload of horses to Oaklawii Park. Hot springs to be trained there " ■ad later mi shipped to New Tork. Joekej Boberta leaves tomorrow night for an " extended visit to his home in Texas. Tin- contract on the apprentice rider Hahin has :,~ been secured by W. H. Paler. The horses of It. L. Maker will be Shipped " to Lexington next Thursday. The eight race program arranged for tin- closing "- i day is one of the best offered at Hie winter me* " I lag and is expected to bring out a record attendance. 11 To enable isitots to witness tie- U.- parade, lr the only carnival parade to be held this year, the " opening race will lie delayed until 2:30 p. m.


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