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FIDDLER IS VICTORIOUS Burgoo Is Denied Second Place After Foul in Fourth Race. Many Refuse Issue With Dick Morris in Original Event and Substitute Is Run. NEW ORLEANS, La., Feb. .25. For the second time during the meeting, E. R. Bradleys Burgoo was disqualified for fouling when stewards J. B. Campbell and Chris Fitzgerald set him back after he had finished second to A. Pelleteris Fiddler in the three quarters of a mile substitute fourth race on todays program at the Fair Grounds. The action resulted from Burgoo slightly impeding the Shandon Farms High Foot during the final drive. In the original finish C. V. Whitneys Smear finished third, and High Foot fourth, but the disqualification of Burgoo moved Smear into second position and brought High Foot into third honors. The disqualification was the fifth during the present Fair Grounds season and when set back earlier in the meeting and on the occasion of his previous start, Burgoo was deprived of first money after leading home Outer Harbor, Prometheus, Honeyman and others. DICK MORRIS BARRED. Presence of the consistent winner, Dick Morris, among the entries for the fourth race on todays program as originally made up, was said to have prompted so many withdrawals that the. race was forced into the discard and the substitute, from which Dick Morris was barred, received the en- tries, two of which were excused by the stewards later in the day. Fiddler, ridden by C. Landolt, was the favorite over Smear and Burgoo, and his victory marked the third score in as many races for the choices. Closing with a rush, he overtook Squeaky, High Foot, Smear and Burgoo in rapid order and got away with the race by a neck over the unlucky Burgoo, which slightly forced back High Foot. The latter was tiring after having made most of the pace, before the winner came on and successfully dealt with the Bradley colt in a bristling finish. CATALANS IDOL BEST. Catalans Idol cantered home a decisive winner over Quick Sale, Well Behaved and nine other maidens over one mile and a sixteenth in the opening race. Quick Sale finished second and third fell to Well Behaved. Master McGee, which was installed favorite, drove to the end in fourth place. He enjoyed a short stay in the early lead, but was rushed at such an excessive pace to reach the front after getting away poorly that he had Uttle left when the real test came. Dusky Boy, strong second choice, showed poor form and was badly outrun from end to end. John Paul saddled the winner of the second race in H. Herendeens Premeditate, one of the outstanding choices. Under an alert ride by E. Pool, the daughter of Supremus and Mettie Bereaud won with something to spare and by the rather decisive margin of a length and one-half from Golden Light and Ellen D., which were a nose apart and second and third, as named. The winner set her own pace and, after "drawing clear on the turn, was never in serious danger. The race was exclusively for three-year-old fillies. Lillian T. turned in her third winning effort in successive engagements when she made a show of those that opposed her in the third race, marred by a disgraceful performance on the part of the erratic Cock-rill, second choice to the successful Lone Star Stable filly. Second to complete the route was Troll, a rank outsider, and Vagabond headed the others in the field of twelve. A. Richard brought the winner to the front under a well-timed ride and, after reaching the stretch and continuing boldly to the end, she drew away until her winning advantage over Troll was four lengths. The latter, a strong factor at all stages, proved a trifle too good for Vagabond in the final drive. As a feature offering, racing secretary CContinued on twenty-third page.. FIDDLER IS VICTORIOUS .Continued from first page. Joseph McLennan brought together some of the second flight three-year-olds, at six furlongs, and the race offered as the fifth was named the Sunny South Purse. It was attended by an accident in which Flaunt, the Warm Stable gelding, which had a big following, was painfully injured. He suffered severe bruises, cuts and lamed himself when he straddled one of the stall walls in the starting gate, and his condition was such that his rider, Earl Pool, eased him to a gallop after going a quarter, during which he failed to come out of the lameness. The winner turned up in Knebelkamp and Morris Hoops, which won easily from Sari-etta. Walter P., -which was making his first start, accounted for third money. Landolt had the mount on Hoops.
