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MORE RAIN A VISITOR Jefferson Park Track Reduced to Heavy Going Vennie Defeats Shamrock by a aNeck Neck After a Long and Hard HardStretch Stretch Drive NEW ORLEANS La February 27 Addi ¬ tional rain this morning resulted in a deep track and many withdrawals from todays card there being twentyfive absentees from the sixtyseven entered Cloudy weather presaged a continuance of the rain and aa a result there was a falling off in attend ¬ ance ancePath Path racing was the order the crest in tho center of the track being the objective point of most of the riders At times some blun ¬ derer attempted guiding his mount next to the inner rail with fatal consequences tho horse being thoroughly exhausted befora traversing much distance distanceThe The mile handicap for threeyearolds for a purse of SlOOO brought about the down ¬ fall of the favorite Shamrock after a spir ¬ ited duel with Vennie The latter won by a scant neck after having raced with Shamrock almost as a team There were four starters in the race All American being coupled with Shamrock and Aniole racing in the interest of the Southland Stable Amole was given vast attention and caused consternation im ¬ mediately at the start when he bolted out from an inner position almost diagonally across the track and was away poorly He never figured seriously in the race though he disposed of All American easily enough for third place Vennie was raced into a slight lead but Shamrock held to him closely and the pair were never separated by more than a neck On the stretch turn It seemed Sham ¬ rock would be the victor but the weight he was conceding Vennie began telling and Vennie succeeded in gaining a necks ad ¬ vantage in the last twenty yards which ha retained to the end endMONASTERYS MONASTERYS GA3IE FINISH FINISHAnother Another hardfought finish came in the third race in which some good mud runners started with Monastery and Golden Floss the outstanding betting mediums Monastery was the choice near the end and his backers emitted a groan when Golden Floss began from the barrier with a big advantage The Cain representative continued to lead by a good margin until reaching the stretch where Monastery gradually gained and in a hard duel succeeded in getting up to win by a half length Golden Floss was far in ad ¬ vance of Bemorecareful Fernandos which had been considered a probable factor before the race was entirely eliminated as a result of the lack of skill of his rider L Ward That diminutive and inexperienced young ¬ ster in addition to guilding his mount in the heavy going almost fell off in the last eighth eighthThe The limit number started in the second race a threequarters sprint and it resulted in an easy victory for Marimba with Herald second and Ardito third Fusee was con ¬ ceded a good chance before the start but he had an inner post position and was mired before going a quarter quarterAbels Abels blunder in taking Reformer to the inner rail when he had a bg lead caused his failure to land the purse in the opening race Reformer was much the best and with good management on the part of the rider proba ¬ bly would have won off Reel Foot beat the bad band that started here with Bonfira heading Reformer for second money moneyHKIOIIS HKIOIIS KKMKLK SUJMMIISKS SUJMMIISKSIlermis Ilermis Kernble furnished the upset in the fifth race which he won with ease His race today wrs in contrast to several pre ¬ vious ones Romanelli had the mount and he slipped him into a long lead before the other riders were aware of it and kept him in the good going afterward Normal was good enough to outstay the others for second place Lampus finishing third Duke John here quit badly after he had gone three quarters quartersThe The closing race was won by Grace Daugherty with Viva Cuba second and Bux ¬ om third thirdJack Jack Hare Jr is intended for shipment to Lexington as soon as transportation facili ¬ ties are available Bill and Coo intended to go to Thomas Piatts farm near Lexington is also awaiting transportation Jack Haro Jr will go into the stud Bill and Coo and Betty Js racing careers are also terminated terminatedTris Tris Speaker wellknown ball player and manager of the Cleveland American team was a visitor en route from his home to Lakeland Fla where the Indians will train this spring springThere There was a falling off in the number of layers operating this afternoon only thirty nine responding to the call callThe The horses owned by J W Bean and J Gardner will be shipped tonight to Bowie Md where they will await the racing there
