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MARDI GRAS HANDICAP TODAY Twelve High Class Performers Named to Contest in Big Holiday Feature at the Fair Grounds NEW ORLEANS, La., Feb. 8. Tuesday, Mardi Gras day, brings a real treat, for local and visiting racing enthusiasts in the splendid Louisiana Jockey Club program, to be run at the Fair Grounds and featuring a renewal of the Mardi Gras Handicap, for years the headliner on this particular holiday at the picturesque local course. Should dry, balmy weather continue through the next twenty-r- --- -------------------t four hours, there is every prospect of a bitter J contest at a sizzling pace, as the handicap The field for the Mardi Gras Han- J stars vie for Mardi Gras honors over a fast dicap follows: ! track and at a mile and one-sixteenth. PP. Horse. Wt. Jockey, j "Twelve of the twenty nominated for the 1 Jimmy Mo ran. 116 G. Elston ! fixture were named through the entry box 2 Surf Board 112 H. R. Riley ! today, and including as they do such of the 3 Spanish Play. . 116 C. Landolt j winter giants as Knebelkamp and Morris 4 Broad Mdows.109. ... .. .J. Smith j Spanish Play, Edward Haughtons Wotan, 5 Abdel 105 Mrs. Payne Whitneys Surf Board, E. R. 6 Wotan 106 E. Pool I Bradleys Broad Meadows, R. A. Fairbairns 7 Bargello 113 G. Elston j Glastonbury, C. V. Whitneys Bargello, M. 8 Glastonbury ..106....R. Finnerty Goldblatts Jimmy Moran, J. J. Robinsons 9 Playtime 101 E. James I Renaissance and others, the best race of the 10 Quatre Bs II. 98 M. Lewis j winter should result. 1 11 Renaissance ..103 A. Pascuma j Surf Board, recent conqueror of Bargello, 12 Nellie Custis.. 94 J. Neel greatly impressed in his final distance trial j for the race Sunday morning, trainer Jack Middleton sending the Greentree Stable star a mile, for which he was timed in 1:43. He was rated under strong restraint throughout and went, the half-mile in :51 and the three-quarters in 1:17. This impressive concluding preparatory gallop and his fine competitive performances during the meeting assures him a place among the choices for Tuesdays race. In the Inaugural Handicap on the opening day of the meeting, he finished second to Spanish Play, and in his next start defeated Bargello. Surf Boards Mardi Gras impost will be 112 pounds, while Spanish Play and Jimmy Moran, the latter unbeaten in two starts during the current Fair Grounds meeting, will carry top weight of 116 pounds and Bargello, 113 pounds. The race in which he bowed to Surf Board was Bargelios first in several months. Jimmy Morans 1932 victories include the renewal of the Pontchartrain Handicap and the combination of the Goldblatt performer, and Bargello is likely to rule favorite tomorrow.
