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MUD HAS NO TERRORS For Thousands Thronging to the theFair Fair Grounds Race Course Calcutta Victorious in the Main Race Black Gold an Easy Winner Abel Stars NEW ORLEANS La February 12 A mile handicap named for J S McCandless Imperial Potentate of the Shriners in this country and to which was added an ornate cup as well as a purse of 1200 was the feature of todays card and the Shriners here honoring their leader made a gala occasion of it and came to the track in force augment ¬ ing the large visiting crowd here for the Mardi Gras festivities The Imperial Po ¬ tentate and his escort witnessed the running of the race as guests of the stewards stewardsCalcutta Calcutta favored by light weight and rac ¬ ing in his best form was returned the winner of the race after a thrilling battle with another threeyearold Vennie The favorite Crack o Dawn landed in third place The latter was in command from the start at ¬ tended closely by Calcutta the pair being a good way in advance of the others during the first half mile In the last quarter Vennie came with a rush and at this juncture Crack o Dawn showed signs of weakening This enabled Calcutta to move up and in the stretch duel that followed Calcutta held to his task gamely and outstayed Vennie by a length Vennie also beat Crack o Dawn by a length lengthMUD MUD RUNNERS IN GLORY GLORYThreatening Threatening weather was again present accompanied by intermittent showers early in the day The crowd was of holiday pro ¬ portions and the racing interest evident though the track was unsuited to any but mud runners The outer part of the course again had the firmest footing and those at ¬ tempting to race on the inner strip were at the exhausted stage before half of their re ¬ spective races were completed completedWithdrawals Withdrawals in several instances reduced the fields and made for better racing racingThe The cream of the twoyearold division met in the opening dash and it proved Black Gold best He won commandinsly from Kdna V with Reply in third place Reply again was green at the barrier and it resulted in her being last immediately after the start and she was forced to close an immense gap missing getting second place by a matter of inches Black Gold with an outer post po ¬ sition and with his fine early speed scurried into a good lead before reaching the last sixteenth and won in a canter canterThe The second race brought to the post an ordinary band and it furnished a surprise in the victory of Sweet Mama which won from Galeta and Hysteria HysteriaJames James Arthurs Sagamore proved best in the third and won easily from James F OHara with Monastery third thirdDEVONITE DEVONITE IX LAST STRIDE STRIDEThe The finish of the fifth race was of the thrilling variety and had the crowd in a frenzy of excitement Devonite and Hello Pardner staged the duel attended closely by War Prize Devonite under strong riding getting the verdict in the last strides War Prize might have beaten both with a good ride Day Lilly was favorite but she ran one of her poor races racesJockey Jockey Abel was the riding star of the aft ¬ ernoon and landed three of his mounts win ¬ ners He inaugurated this with a victory on Sagamore and followed in quick succession on Calcutta and Who Cares The lattor was the victor in the sixth race and won by fif ¬ teen lengths with Abel riding him out hard in spite of his big advantage advantageThe The final race fell to Spugs strongly backed He wore Rekab down in the last six ¬ teenth Rep and Ashland a pair that was backed extensively showed poor perfor ¬ mances and were never prominent in thb running runningA A B Gordon trainer of the extensive Bud Fisher stable was among the visitors this afternoon in quest of a jockey Ha opened negotiations with Sergeant M Mur ¬ phy for the services of G Mein Gordon stated that the horses wintering at Churchill Downs where the Fisher horses are have come out of their long rest in fine style few cases of sickness having been noticed at either Churchill Downs or Douglas Park Many of the horses at both tracks havo begun training for an early spring campaign The Fisher horses will soon take up their training and are intended for shipment to Jamaica some time in April Gordon said that Sporting Blood will do stud duty at Carr and Piatts farm near Lexington and that his book for this spring is complete completeThe The William Daniel horses will be trans ¬ ferred to Tijuana next Friday The horses will include Romany Lighter Olynthus Si ¬ lent King Dr T S Dabney Beverwyck King of the Spa Ollie Ochs Blanc Seing and Ray Palmer Continued on second i agcj MUD HAS NO TERRORS Continued from first page Hello Pardner starting in the fifth race was claimed for 2000 by S Jones repre ¬ sented in the race by Magician MagicianJoe Joe McLennan will be at the Fair Grounds daily until 10 a m to take entries for the Jefferson Park track The entries will close daily at 1030 at Jefferson Park ParkFormer Former Senator Thomas Combs associated with Mayor Thomas Bradley in the purchase of the Lexington track who has been wit ¬ nessing the racing here for some time de ¬ parts Wednesday for Havana where he will visit for some time Paul Williams of Lex ¬ ington will go with him himSeveral Several of the stables transferred their horses during the afternoon to Jefferson Park where they will be quartered during the meeting there thereTho Tho following wellknown Kentucldana were among the visitors today one coming on the Queen City train which came from Cincinnati John J Craig state auditor Chesley Searcey and Roscoe Searcey M J Brannon Thomas Shelly John Fintana Squire OBrien and Dr Chalk ChalkMein Mein and Corcoran are continuing their interesting duel for the gold watch Mein was leading Corcoran by one point at the close of todays racing Mein had 79 poins and Corcoran 78 Harvey follows with 46 points pointsThere There was no change in the trainers stand ¬ ing J B Partridge leading the procession with 29 points and W A Burttschell follow ¬ ing with 2GJ
