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MARS FAIR PROSPECTS Rain Visits the Fair Grounds Track Again Small Rider Harvey the Star of the Day With Three Win ¬ ning Mounts NEW ORLEANS La February 9 More rain visited these parts converting the track into slow going ard also causing a slump in attendance from the expected holiday num ¬ bers Surprises and upsets came with fre ¬ quency during the afternoon The bad rid ¬ ing of several of the heretofore considered reliables contributed extensively extensivelyIt It was a day for the diminutive Harvey to shine That youngster scored the banner day of his career and the close of the after ¬ noon found him with three winning mounts to his credit creditSeveral Several of his mounts he rode in veteran style particularly C A Reinhardt in the opener which as a result of the good riding given him managed to graduate from the maiden ranks ranksHarvey Harvey followed his initial victory by rid ¬ ing Rolo home a winner in the second race in which Birdie G was favorite Mein was seemingly afraid of the Greenberg represen ¬ tative for he rode her wide and hesitatingly Harveys third success was Kent L in the fifth He won after a spirited drive with Al Stebler and Winner Take All Poor Sport was favorite and started out as if he would make a runaway of it but when he reached the stretch quit badly Kent L came around tho others and impeding Winner Take All bewildering Mein so badly that he even lost second place to Al Stebler The latter showed quite sudden improvement improvementJORDAX JORDAX PROVES ERRATIC ERRATICHarvey Harvey had the mount on Jordan in the closing race but that erratic racer never figured seriously in the result This race was won by Promising Tom which won in a canter because Ovvpns pulled Carmencita back to be last while rounding the first turn Many lengths from the leader she closed an immense gap and showed she was best by finishing in second place placeScratches Scratches reduced the field in the feature dash to four starters and caused Sea Cove to rule an overwhelming favorite The How ¬ ard representative justified the confidence placed in him by winning in a canter It marked the first success this winter for the stable colors at this track Tan Son fol ¬ lowed Sea Cove closest for the entire race but had to be ridden hard to land second place from the outsider Double Cross De ¬ mos the other starter showed poor form and has probably trained off offThe The outstanding upset of the afternoon camo with the running of the third race in which a dozen ordinary ones met It resulted in a victory for the many times dis ¬ appointing Rupee which under Murphys energetic ride won by a scant half length from Tender Seth with the next six in a huddle huddleG G Vf LOFT A VISITOR VISITORGeorge George W Loft member of the New York State Racing Commission and owner of a pretentious stable racing on the New York tracks was among the newcomers He will be here for the remainder of the Fair Grounds racing racingFortyseven Fortyseven layers were in line during the afternoon This is an increase of seven over yesterday The same number will be on tomorrow tomorrowSuperb Superb had to be chloroformed yesterday because of blood poisoning He was in the A G Blakely stable stableC C O Smith who is extensively identified with the Columbus Ohio meeting stated today that there would be a thirteen days race meeting this year at Aurora Illinois to follow that at Hawthorne HawthorneJockey Jockey Smallwood had to cancel his riding engagements on account of illness illnessWilliam William Daniel will depart for Chicago to ¬ morrow His horses here will be trained by Owen Pons and will be raced at Jefferson Park ParkWilliam William Shields departs tomorrow for JSinghamton N Y where he goes to take up the fifteen horses that he will train for Willis Sharpe Kilmer this year He will in ¬ augurate the campaign at the Maryland tracks Fifteen horses will also be trained by Eugene Wayland it being the intention of Mr Kilmer to race thirty horses in two divisions divisionsIn In the Wayland string will be Sallys Alley which will be prepared for the Preakness Stakes as well as the Kentucky Derby Mr Shields expressed the belief that she would be a certain starter in the latter race raceJockey Jockey Albert Johnson is again under con ¬ tract to the Kilmer establishment and prob ¬ ably has the most lucrative engagement of any jockey in this country In addition to a retainer of 15000 he gets a 10 per cent bonus of the winnings of the horses he rides
