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WARMWEA1HERAGAIN New Orleans Sunshine Returns Without Helping Favorites Eulalia Furnishes Another Sur ¬ prise and Defeats Setting Sun and Blue Nose Easily NEW ORLEANS La February S The question of threeyearold supremacy here was further bemuddled today when Eulalia a recent graduate from the maiden ranks and since winner of a selling race won the mile handicap that featured in easy style and brought to the post threeyearolds ex ¬ clusively Behind Eulalia came Setting Sun and Blue Nose The latter coupled with his stablemate Brunell was the favorite over Setting Sun but Eulalia also came in for extensive sup ¬ port portLyke Lyke raced Blue Nose to the front with a rush attended by Setting Sun and Eulalia the others being far back Blue Nose con ¬ tinued in the van until the stretch was reached where Setting Sun passed him and seemed a certain winner but just then Eu ¬ lalia shot by frith a rush and won well in hand Setting Sun landed in second place with ease but Blue Nose had a difficult task to outstay Goldencrest for third place placeThere There was a return of summer warmth conditions here today and it brought sur ¬ prising improvement in the attendance and betting activity The sport was wholesome featured by many close finishes finishesFavorites Favorites did not fare so well during the afternoon Brotherly Love was a serious offender in this respect He was backed in confident fashion in the fifth race but failed to get a portion of the purse The winner turned up in May Roberts an outsider she winning from the consistent Slippery Elm in the last few strides Magician landed third money moneyThe The public began well when it centered on Rachel Potter in the initial dash She won but had to be ridden hard to outstay Roman Girl Nancy McKay taking third place placeADVENTURE ADVENTURE A FAILURE FAILUREThirteen Thirteen poor ones started in the second race with Adventure the favorite but he was decidedly deficient in speed and fin ¬ ished in the ruck Joseph Brant winning from Amanda with Silver Springs third thirdThe The third was won by Wolfs Cry an out ¬ sider from Harry B and Hidden Jewel The latter was joint favorite with Valor Scourgeman which in a previous race showed a poor performance won the sixth race in easy style from Jack Fairman with War Prize in third place placeTopmast Topmast gave jockey Harvey his second winning mount of the afternoon when he led a mediocre band home in the closing dash Miracle Man which had been the leader from the start outstayed the others under hard riding and Moody after being far back came with a rush to land in third place placeJcokey Jcokey Bell was given a ten days vacation from riding by the stewards for rough riding in the fifth race He was astride Hermis Kemble and came over sharply against the others on the first turn turnTrainer Trainer Owen Pons was this afternoon engaged by William Daniels to take charge of the horses owned by him and formerly in care of trainer A G Blakely The stewards approved the appointment Blakely had a long interview this afternoon with the offi ¬ cials but nothing was divulged divulgedTO TO DECLARE DIVIDEND DIVIDENDThe The Business Mens Racing Association will probably declare a 10 per cent dividend to its stockholders after the close of the present racing It will be the first dividend declared in several years yearsSam Sam Holman general manager of the Ma ¬ ple Heights meeting who is racing Best Pal and other horses here has announced that the program book of the first thirteen days of the Maple Heights racing would be dis ¬ tributed to horsemen here It is the intention to have no purse of less than 700 with han ¬ dicaps ranging in value daily from 1000 to 1500 Joe McLennan compiled the intro ¬ ductory program book Among the officials who will serve at the Maple Heights track are J A Murphy Fred Gerhardy W R Norvell and John Carey William Snyder has been programmed as the starter starterMr Mr Holman stated that Best Pal and the others in his stable racing here would be shipped to Louisville at the close of the local racing and he rested until the opening of the Kentucky racing season where they will be campaigned campaignedThomas Thomas Combs arrived during the morning from Lexington for an indefinite stay stayMaurice Maurice Malvin wellknown attorney and director of the Kentucky Jockey Club will arrive tomorrow for a brief visit visitMose Mose Goldblatt departed for Cincinnati last night and from there will go to Louisville Continued oa twelfth pace WARM WEATHER AGAIN Continued from first page There he will make ready for the reception of the Harry Payne Whitney horses to be sent him by trainer James Rowe from Brook dale Farm in New Jersey Goldblatts horses will continue to race under the care of Ben Walters Mr Goldblatt may return here later He was accompaniedto Cincinnati by Bobby Bowers BowersC C R Anderson has taken over Troilus to train trainJ J S Ward whose horses have been racing here since the opening of the Fair Grounds meeting is among the new comers comersMax Max Hirsch departed for Palm Beach Fla tonight where he will remain some time before returning to New York to resume training tho horses under his care which in ¬ clude those of G W Loft He was in receipt of a telegram during the afternoon from John E Madden announcing the sale of The Finn to W R Coe The Finn will likely be trans ¬ ferred to Phil T Chinns Hirayar Stud for the present
