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IMPROVED CONDITIONS Moderating Weather and Drying Out Course Stimulates Training. Prospects Excellent for Fast Track at Fair Grounds Today Latest New Orleans Gossip. NEW ORLEANS, La., Jan. 13. The return of more moderate weather conditions, combined -with greatly improved going, served to stimulate training operations at the Fair Grounds Sunday morning and attracted to the course the biggest throng of work watchers of the winter. The spectators were well repaid, for they were privileged to witness some meritorious workouts. The track had dried out wonderfully well since Saturday and with the aid of much rolling and harrowing by a large force of workmen Sunday afternoon horsemen are hailing with pleasure a fast track for Mondays racing. Racing secretary Joseph McLennan has prepared attractive daily programs for this weeks racing, and with a promise of normal weather and a fast track the week should be productive of the best grade of racing witnessed this winter. The Rex Handicap, at three-quarters, will provide the weeks chief attraction and will grace Saturdays program. This event, the first handicap of the meeting for three-year-; olds exclusively, will serve to bring into I : notice a number of Louisiana Derby possibilities, I including the Greentree Stables Rin-key, a victress in her only three starts at the I Fair Grounds, Benjamin Blocks Thorndale, H. P. Whitneys Uproar, the Idle Hour Stock Farm Stables Brilliant Cast and others of i 1 lesser note. The race attracted nineteen nominations and weights are due to be announced Thursday. Joseph P. Murphy, well known in racing circles, has arranged to make his departure Tuesday for Florida to stay there for the remainder of the winter. JOCKEY SCOBIE MARRIED. Word was received Sunday that jockey E. Scobie, who will ride for II. G. Bedwell during the summer, had married Miss Lucille Murphy, a girl residing at Latonia, Ky. A. Thomas, trainer of the William Perkins stable, has succeeded W. Herring as trainer of Charles Henry. Harry Block, New York operator, was among the arrivals Saturday and plans to spend a fortnight here before going to Hot Springs. Euclid Allard, well-known handicapper and backer, who attended the first six weeks of the Havana meeting, was an arrival from Cuba Saturday and will remain until the close of the Fair Grounds meeting. Efforts to locate relatives of W. M. Cruden, horseman, who died of cancer of the stomach in the Charity Hospital last week, have been unsuccessful and burial was made Sunday in a local cemetery. Cruden was known on the race tracks as "Huckleberry Bill and had owned and trained horses in Canada for a number of years. Last summer he raced the horse Troilus on the Canadian tracks. Jockey J. McCoy has received an offer from Hal Booker, now in Havana, to go to the Cuban city and ride for him during the remainder of the meeting. McCoy still has the offer under consideration. j Secretary Joseph McLennan is in receipt of a telegram from the city editor of the Louisville Times asking him to locate Bertram Menne, a stable hand, supposed to be employed at the Fair Grounds. The telegram states that the Louisville newspaper has important news for Bertram Menne. FOR EMPLOYES WELFARE. E. R. Bradley, ever on the alert to improve the living conditions of his stable employes, arranged before his departure for his winter home in Florida an addition to his stable, which he recently had reconstructed at the Fair Grounds. The improvements, which include an extra story containing sleeping rooms with shower bath and toilet, will be completed in a short time. Mr. Bradley is also paying for the construction of an outlet from his barn to the city sewer. Mrs. W. J. Potter of Mobile, who recently purchased the horses Polvo and Boy O Boy, has made an additional purchase of a three-year-old. She has secured from the Audley Farm Stable the colt Bench Manager for a price reported at ?5,000. In securing these three-year-olds Mrs. Potter has in view the winning of the Louisiana Derby. Andrew W. Leonard, steward on the Kentucky track3 has selected the name Flavia for his bay filly by Under Fire Mary Orr that George Land is training at the Fair Grounds.
