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ON THE HOMESTRETCH Only Twenty More Days Remain of Fair Grounds Meeting. Two ,000 Added Stake Features Yet to Be Decided Auction Sale Next Thursday. NEW ORLEANS, La., Feb. 10. The present meeting at the Fair Grounds is approaching its termination and has but twenty more days to run beore it closes March 4. During its remaining time five- stake races are to be decided, and among the number are two of the most valuable fixtures of the winter season. The latter are the Crescent City Handicap, at a mile and an eighth, which will be the headliner on next Saturdays program, and the Mardi Gras Handicap, at a mile and three-sixteenths, which will be decided on the closing day. Both of these races "have ,000 added, and both ought to be worth approximately ?3,500 to the winner. In both races the second horse will draw down ,000, the third, 00 and the fourth 50. The Crescent City, weights for which will be announced Thursday, has attracted a splendid nomination Us4- of twenty-five of the best horses in local training, the number including such well known racers as Flint Stone, Rinkey, Dr. Clark, Exodus, Best Pal, Bradleys Toney, Thorndale, Cherry Tree, Olyn-thus, Revenge, Moonrakcr and others of lesser note. TRACK WORK RECORDED. Delightful weather served to attract a large concourse of visitors to the Fair Grounds this morning to watch the workouts. Fast track conditions enabled trainers to send their charges along at a swift pace and among the numerous gallops some highly creditable moves were recorded. The first thoroughbred auction sale of the meeting will bo held in the Fair Grounds paddock prior to the races next Thursday, when a large number of horses in training arc to be put under the hammer. The Aud-ley Farm Stable will furnish the main consignment when that establishment will offer ten head, including Deronda, Fausto, Flit-low, Spanish Name, Huey, Bluemondale, Sweeptona, Sea Wrack, Futuro and Widgeon. All of the number are young horses that have not quite come up to the expectations of their trainer, Kay Spence, who is anxious to weed out the stable in order to reduce the size of the establishment in his charge. After disposing of these horses Spence intends shipping those he retains to the Jones farm in Virginia, to be turned out until the summer months. The horses that are wintering at the farm Spence will take up and send to Churchill Downs to be put back into training. The horses that John Lowe has in charge here for Edward Ccbrian will also be sold next Thursday, together with a number that Lowe is racing in his own colors. Lowe intends disposing of all his horses here to permit him to return to Lexington March 1 to assume charge of the extensisve establishment of Frederick Johnson, now wintering at that course. WILSON HORSES TO FARM. Trainer Jack Pryce . of the R. T. Wilson and W. J. Salmon stables has arranged to ship five horses now at the Fair Grounds to Mr. Wilsons farm in Kentucky the latter part of the present week. The number includes the three-year-old Carlton, which gave great promise last year, but which had to be thrown out of training in December when he sustained a badly wrenched knee in a race at Jefferson Park. W. Daniels cracK three-year-olJ filly Sue Donovan, which sustained an injury to one of her ankles while being galloped about a fortnight ago, is rapidly recovering from the injury and if she trains to the satisfaction of Andy Blakely will be seen under colors before the close of the Fair Grounds meeting. Barney Google, the Frizzle Jeano colt that William Perkins recently sold to IT. Stark of Memphis, who turned him over to W. H. Flzer to train, is back in the Perkins barn at the Fair Grounds. William Snyder, alternate starter, who recently underwent an operation, will resume work Monday and will send the fields away for the remainder of the Fair Grounds meeting. AVord was received at the Fair Grounds that T. C. Bradley, manager of the Lexington track, is spending a couple of weeks at Hot Springs, Ark., in an effort to recover his health. Jefferson Livingstons two-year-old Evelyn, the only youngster to win three races at the Fair Grounds, will be nominated to all of the two-year-old filly stakes to be run in Kentucky next spring and summer.
