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END AT NEW ORLEANS Louisiana Derby Closing Day Feature at Jefferson Park. . Black Gold Probable Favorite, with Thorndale a Close and Strong Second Choice. NEW CHILEANS, La., March 1G. With the running of the Louisiana Derby at Jefferson Park Monday the Ions winter season of racing: in New Orleans will come to an end and immediately afterward will come the departure for other racing; points of officials, race followers and others connected with the racing. Indications point to fine weather and a fast track for the closing days racing, together with a vast outpouring of racing enthusiasists to view the running of the Derby and bid adieu to the thoroughbreds until .next winter rolls around. The Louisiana Derby has attracted a field that, for quantity and quality, will compare favorably with those of previous years and, with a fast track, a truly run contest is bound to result. Black Gold, despite his top impost of 120 pounds, is favored on the eve of the contest and will probably go to the post carrying the bulk of the publics money. Benjamin Blocks consistent colt Thorndale will be the second choice and his fine races here this winter, together with his acknowledged fitness to traverse the Derby distance of a mile and an eighth, will attract to his standard a world of support. The Grecntrco pair, Rinkey and Dazzler, are also highly regarded, notably the former, which may be the one to carry off the race. Of the others, Blotter, which will carry the locally-owned colors of the Southland Stable, and Brilliant Cast, from the Idle Hour Stock Farm Stable, are considered the best and the ones most likely to upset calculations. The Derby colts were not asked to do anything of an ambitious nature Sunday morning, as their trainers believe they are lit and ready to run to their best form Monday afternoon. Most of the colts were cantered at short distances to keep them keyed up for their best efforts in the Derby. EXODUS NORTH rXDEB IVAT. The exodus of horses for northern racing points Is already well under way and before ! the end of the present week both local plants will be well depopulated of their thoroughbred colonies. A majority of the early departures are stables intended for the early spring meetings at Bowie and Huntington. Horsemen shipping to those points are encountering the usual difficulty of securing cars. Sunday witnessed a number of departures and chief among the number was the stable I of Mose Goldblatt, comprising fifteen head,! which was dispatched to Louisville, Ky., in charge of Ben Walters. In one of the cars that took the Goldblatt horses Louis Taubcr shipped the horse Make Up, which is also destined for Louisville. Quite a few stables will leave Tuesday morning for Huntington, W. Va., and included in the number will be the establishments of J. J. Russell, James Bobertson, H. 13. Bowns. J. Shields and E. McCown. The latter will ship Vennie, Avispa, Torsida and Arrowhead, while among the Russell band will be Sleigh Bells, Beg Pardon and Tingling. I The Bowns consignment, in charge of George Zeigler, will embrajce Pathan, Anne, Balco Baby Lane and San Dimas. M. J. Murphy is another trainer who has decided to ship to Bowie Tuesday.- J. J. Troxlcr has decided to ship his stable to Lexington, Ky., next Wednesday. DELAYING HIS DEPARTURE. Mrs. George Reeds two-year-old, Broadway, which has been in Troxlers care all winter, was turned over Sunday to Fred, Burlew, who will take the youngster to Jamaica when he ships the Ben Block stable to that track April 23. Burlew is delaying : his departure for the North until the advent of better weather in that section and will keep Thorndale and his other horses here until that time. Howard Oots, who has jockey L. McDer-mott under contract, has agreed to permit the boy to ride for Andy Blakely at Tijuana until the opening of the Kentucky spring racing season at Lexington. McDermott will leave Tuesday morning for the Lower California track. Trainer William Hurley has decided not to ship the Idle Hour Farm Stables horses to Lexington until after the first of April. J. Lowenstein will ship his stable to Lexington March 24. F. P. Letellier, whose horses are stabled at the Fair Grounds, transferred his Derby eligible. Blotter, to Jefferson Park Sunday morning. Mr. Letellier is undecided about his future plans, but may decide on a campaign on the Kentucky tracks next spring. At an auction sale of horses in training held at Jefferson Park Saturday morning twelve head were disposed of at nominal prices. Following were the best sales: Arrowhead, 5575, E. McCown; Georgette, 00. II. D. Holmes; Uncle Sonny, 50, "W. H. Flzec; Mary Lynn, 50, V. Crane. i
