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CHOICES HAVE GOOD DAY Flying Don Accounts for Feature at Fair Grounds. .Carnival Visitors Swell Crowd Al- - most to Saturday Proportions Starch Scores in Fifth. NEW ORLEANS, La., Feb. 8 Favorites, .vhich have enjoyed more than average success almost daily since the opening of the Jneeting, had another big day at the Fair Grounds Monday, and their score for the Afternoon was brought to four victories in is many races when J. J. Robinsons Flying Don easily accounted for the Lake Maure-pas Purse, for three-year-olds. The six that started here were badly matched, and the .winner, after leading from the starting point, reached the finish of the three-quarters with an advantage of four lengths over S. W. Labrots Open Hearth. Third and a length farther back, was R. A. Fairbairns Merry Fox, which was making his first appearance of the winter. Battering Ram led De-fier and Our Cherrycote for fourth money. After beginning swiftly the winner, rid-den by A. Pascuma, soon opened up a commanding lead and, maintaining his speed better than in other of his winter efforts, was never in danger. Entering the stretch he bore out badly, and while this cost him some ground, he soon regained it after Straightening out in the last three-sixteenths. It was his first success of the local season. BATTERING RAM FAILS. From a slow start Merry Fox worked his way into second place just inside the stretch turn, but Open Hearth outstayed him, while Battering Ram failed to prove a contender at any time. Todays sport opened the third week of the meeting, and with scores of Carnival visitors attending, the crowd approached Saturday proportions. Ideal weather prevailed. Miss Careful, good daughter of Chance Play and Meddlesome II., and probably the best of the juveniles seen under colors here, Recounted for her second purse in as many Starts when she was a handy winner over Uustice Logan, Nituma and nine others of her age in the first race. The winner had colors of her owner, C. D. Ponamsky, in front after going a sixteenth, and running the three-eighths in :35, the fastest time of the meeting, won by a length from Justice Logan. Nituma, second choice to the .winner, encountered a slight measure of adverse luck when she failed to slip through between Justice Logan and Crucial Test, which finished fourth, near the last furlong. This forced her rider to ease her up, and after getting clear she finished fastest of all on the extreme outside. FAVORITE WINS. Form players also hit the mark in the second race when Our Grief, the Warm Stable- starter, which ruled at short odds, proved much the best among the twelve three-yearTold fillies that started. The distance was three-quarters, and the winner completed it with six lengths over Golden Light. The latter, driving hard, had a neck over Escoba Land. Cousin Judy, second choice, led the others. Some quick thinking by Earl Pool pulled the winner through a rather dangerous situation on the turn, where she missed being blocked by the smallest of margins. Going to the outside with a rush, she disposed of Golden Light, which set the early pace, when entering the stretch and came away fast as Golden Light withstood the determined Escoba Land. Tantivy accounted for his first purse in some time, and scored another victory for the betting choices in which he easily defeated Morsnuff, Honeyman and nine others in the third race, under claiming conditions, and over three-quarters. The victor overwhelmed his rivals with a rush in the stretch and, while holding on well in the drive, Morsnuff failed to keep pace with the Whitney gelding and went down by a length and one-half. Some six lengths separated Morsnuff and Honeyman, the latter taking third by a neck over Glidelia. Another favorite, this time the consistent Starch, winner of four of his previous five engagements, scored in the fifth race, in Which only seven started. Starch led from start to finish, but was under vigorous riding after a mile and won by a length from Florence Dolan. Third fell to Strong-heart, which pressed Florence Dolan in the run to the finish, The winner was ridden by J. McCoy.
