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FIRST OF YEAR 1924 Disqualification Mars the Feature Race at Fair Grounds. The Roll Call Set Back and Sedge-field Awarded Purse Three More for Jockey Parke. NEW ORLEANS, La., Jan. 15. The first disqualification of the Fair Grounds meeting came when The Roll Call, ridden by J. Corcoran, won in the feature race, a mile and a sixteenth dash for a purse of ,200, in which he beat the outstanding favorite, Sedgefield, by a short head, with Llewellyn in third place five lengths back of the pair and twenty in advance of Kinburn, the only other starter. The Roll Call displayed the most speed from the start, but was closely followed by Sedgefield and Llewellyn until reaching the stretch, Avhere the latter dropped out of it and left Sedgefield to contend for the purse, j Parke was bending every energy to wearj down the leader when he was suddenly forced to go to the inside as a result of the The , Roll Call coming out. When again straightened and going fast, Corcoran brought The Roll Call toward the inner rail and Parke was again forced to stop riding to take his mount to the outside. Sedgefield, in spite of the zigzag course he had to take, came steadily near the end and at a longer dis-, tance would have passed The Roll Call. j On their return to the judges stand to weigh in Corcoran and Parke were called before the stewards and after hearing both riders those officials ordered the disqualification of The Roll Call. His elimination moved Sedgefield into first place, gave second money to Llewellyn and third place to Kinburn. The stewards held jockey Corcoran responsible of willfully trying to impede Sedgefield during the stretch racing and, in addition to disqualifying The Roll Call, suspended Corcoran for five days. HARD JOLT FOR RING. The change in placing was a hard jolt for the ring, the layers being forced to sustain heavy losses on Llewellyn for place and show and. also on Kinburn to show. The racing suffered materially by the sudden change in weather, the steady rain making it disagreeable for the spectators and converted the track from fast to muddy going. Many of the better-class starters were absentees, due to the bad track conditions, and some of the races suffered additionally by heavy withdrawals. The concluding race was almost riddled by scratches. Favorites and followers of jockey Parke fared well, for five favorites were successful and Parke added three of the winners, counting his victory on Sedgefield. The success of favorites and Parke began in the opener when Wilmer the Wizard, running in the colors of Mose Goldblatt. won in hollow style from Fire Boy and Exchange. Fire Boy might have given the winner a strong argument with a better ride. Parkes other successful mount, aside from Sedgefield, was Tan Son in the closing race. Tan Son lead for the entire way and won well tinder restraint. . He was not considered highly by the sharps and he drifted in price though he was at all times an outstanding favorite. The Cincinnati Stable added another purse to its coffers when the erractic Madam Ven-nie, racing kindly this afternoon, won from Lady Choco and Belle K. Madam Vennie was much the best for she was away slowly and had to go all around the others. She came avay in the last sixteenth to win well under restraint. SHOWS IMPROVEMENT. Paul Micou, which has been performing only ordinarily in recent starts, showed improvement in the third race which he won after a drive with Sagamore and Three Square. There was some bad interference in the stretch in which Three Square suffered most. He was also a sufferer soon after the start. After having much the best of the sendoff Felicitous and Poor Sport, a pair of expected contenders, ceased to figure strongly in the result when the stretch was reached. Margaret Ware was another to show improvement over her last start, when she came away to an easy victory in the sixth race. She won from the outsider, Our Star, and Juno. The latter was the extreme outsider in the race. Simplicity, Baby Mine, Feh-rah and Bye Bye all raced below expectations. Bye Byes poor showing was due to the bad ride by Blind. That rider has lost all semblances of good form and seems in imminent danger of falling off his mounts. Stipcrbum, which lias already won a purse at the Fair C rounds for C. II. Knebelkamps account, made good in the sixth race, in which she was a well-backed favorite. Silent King and Repeater fought it out hard for second place, with Silent King just managing to land it. Ettahe was the disappointment here. He went far below his best form.
