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LOCAL OWNERS PROFIT Crescent City Horses Share Fair Grounds Feature Purse. JiJlizabeth Bolla Outstays Colonial - Belle and Real Pardner in Spectacular Stretch Duel. NEW ORLEANS, La., Feb. 1. Local jOwners garnered all the honors in the Adorable Purse, which brought out seven fillies and mares and furnished the featured contest at the Fair Grounds today. ,The Colgate Stables Elizabeth Bolla, A. pelleteris Colonial Belle, and the Southland Stables Real Pardner were first, .second and third, as named, to complete the three-quarters of the headliner. Glidelia, favorite, was among the four others, of which Aunt Deb, which led the small field for four and one-half furlongs, .was fourth. The finish, the most spectacular !of the day, rivaled the most interesting of the meeting when the three leaders drove to the finish separated by only a half length. .Taking the lead when Aunt Deb gave way -and continuing to the finish in resolute fashion, Elizabeth Bolla got away with the .victory, which occasioned mild surprise, by a jieck, while Colonial Belle outfinished Real Pardner by a head for second honors. As Aunt Deb set the pace, Elizabeth Bolla Was the runner-up and for the first five-sixteenths Real Pardner occupied third ilace. On the stretch turn, where Colonial Belle came through on the inside, Real Pardner dropped back while racing wide, but when put to a drive came on gamely and was as good as Colonial Belle in their vain, iut gallant effort to overtake the veteran .Colgate mare. Like Colonial Belle, Glidelia was in rather close quarters early, yet when clear failed to xally under strong urging and no time gave her many backers cause for the slightest encouragement. UNFAVORABLE WEATHER. Todays racing inaugurated the second week of the meeting and due to cold, threatening weather, the attendance was light. A penetrating wind swept out of the East during much of the afternoon and running against it in the stretch the performers were glowed down by the high breeze. Twelve juveniles, eleven of them non-winners, started in the three furlongs distance in the opening race, and it resulted in an interesting contest and victory for A. Pelleteris Conquest, a daughter of High .Time and Heydey. She got up in the late stages to beat Norman P., a son of Midway and Sweet Liberty from the Knebelkamp and Morris stable, out of the honors, and the .Young Brothers Boston Waters, two lengths back, took third from Marion E., the lone winner. Excepting only Norman P., all in the large field lost much ground on the turn, but Jimmy Smith, on the winner, was not dismayed, and his strong riding of the filly played no mean part in her success. She vas well backed, and the result was popular. Hal Price Headleys Chu Chu was a handy winner over Bright Knot, Lady Cou-vin and nine other plater three-year-olds in he second race. She ruled a pronounced favorite and under light weight ran the distance in 1:12, which brought her to the finish a length and one-half in the van of Bright Knot, a rank outsider. Premeditate, making her first start of the winter and recipient of more than scattered support, dropped third place to Lady Couvin, Which came through on the inside with a Continued on twenty-second page. LOCAL OWNERS PROFIT Continued from first page. rush in the stretch when within a short distance of the finish. Stop Gap, one of the most consistent winners among the cheaper platers, added another purse to his earnings when he decisively defeated Master Ogden, Vanquish and others in the third race, for which he received very light support. Cleverly ridden by J. Battista, who rated him back of the early pace, the winner came on fast in the final three-eighths of the mile and one-sixteenth and triumphed by the margin of three lengths. Running his usual good race, Master Ogden outstayed Vanquish and the others, which included the confidently backed Essare.- Away slowly and repeatedly taken back under a timid ride, Essare was far out of the contest at every stage. The engagements of apprentice J. Hernandez, local boy, are being made now by Charles Reid.
