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MUDDY RACING AGAIN Jefferson Park Visited by Rain and Heavy Going. Blue Nose Wins the Feature Race for Owner Bradley Corcoran on Two Winners Gossip. NEW ORLEANS, La., December 27. A heavy shower during the night dulled the track considerably, causing it to be in favor of horses with ability to run well in muddy going. It also made the footing uncertain as a result of blind holes, that caused many of the starters to stumble and blunder. Fine weather was present, though, and it contributed toward bringing out the full strength of racegoers in these parts. The racing was spirited, some keen finishes developing. In some instances the winners were lucky and scored questionable vie- 1 tories. This was particularly true in the case of Hcrmis Kemble, which won the second race. Whalebone, was probably the best horse in the race, but lost on account of Corcoran riding him wide into the stretch and causing a loss of a half dozen lengths thereby. Profiting by his failure in the second race Corcoran stayed close to the inner rail in the next race, with the result that he won on Chateaugay, an outsider in the betting. Corcoran also scored with Huonec in the last race. EXT or SAM troxell. The opening race was contested by a dozen maiden two-year-olds and terminated, for one thing, in the death of Sam Troxell, carrying the colors of C. T. Worthington. The colt was in the nature of a good thing and given heavy support. He was racing for-wardly in the stretch opposite the paddock gate when he suddenly dwelt and showed a dangling hind leg, a complete fracture. He was destroyed to end his suffering. Sir Sidney, a slight favorite, won easily here, with Kitty Carpenter second and the outsider Kitan third. Sir Sidney came near going down when an eighth from the finish as a result of having stepped in a mud hole. E. It. Bradleys Blue Nose won the three-quarters handicap for a purse of ,000 after a hard finish to outstay the fasteoming Calcutta, which began slowly and, with better luck in the early running, would have won instead of being beaten by a neck. Blue Nose was confidently backed, displacing Baffles as the favorite toward post time. Raffles showing was a poor one and evidently that of an unfit horse. Jockey Barnes on Poor Sport was guilty of rough riding in the race, but escaped judicial notice. The finish in the fifth race was a sparkler, with Easteside just .getting up in the last stride to down Crack o Dawn and Wood-trap. The diminutive Mein had the mount on Easteside and he was of little help to the horse. THFRBERS NARROW ESCAPE. The closing race brought a narrow escape from accident when Thurber, on Ballybell, was thrown heavily when that horse stumbled. He fell in the middle of the field and several of the horses seemed to have struck him, but he showed no ill effects from the fall when carried back to the jockeys quarters. Huonec, Wylie and Booneville engaged in a terrific stretch duel and finished in the above order, separated by short margins. Ettahe might have won but for stumbling badly at a critical time. Dr. Hamlet Moore, track physician at Jefferson Park, destroyed Sam Troxell after the horse had a leg broken during the running of the first race. The C. T. Worthington representative met with the injury soon after turning into the stretch. He was unusually well fancied by his stable connections, who backed him from 25 to 1 to G to 1. Sam Louis claimed Crack o Dawn from T. E. Crist for ,200. Jockeys E. Roehm and J. Smith are finished for the Jefferson Park meeting. Starter William Hamilton suspended Roehm for the remaining three days in the third race today, while the stewards issued another belated announcement that they had banished Smith for the remainder of the Shrewsbury meeting Tuesday. C. W. Hay, steward on the Kentucky circuit, and who will serve in a similar capacity at the Fair Grounds, arrived tonight. He was accompanied by Quin Cogar, patrol judge on the Blue Grass trades and who has been appointed to a like position at the Fair Grounds. The Fair Grounds stewards will convene tomorrow morning to pass upon applications for trainers and jockeys licenses. W. O. Stoner came in from Havana. He took the veteran Port Light there last night Fifty horses had to be excluded from the second race today, as sixty-eight entries were made in it There were six too many named j for the sixth race also.
