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! BILOXI FOR TWO-YEAR-OLDS Juvenile Tilt to Top Saturdays Fair 1 Grounds Program. Unbeaten Torch Stick Among the Probable Starters Michigan Flyer Expected to Furnish Contention. NEW ORLEANS, La., Nov. 29. Two-year-olds will hold the spotlight at the Fair Grounds this week-end, for on Saturday the Biloxi Handicap, a race fashioned for juveniles, will be the principal attraction. It will be decided over six furlongs for a purse of ,500 and entries for it close on Thursday. The Biloxi was one of the early features here last year for two-year-olds and it resulted in a victory for Real Play which performed under the Southland Stable colors of the late Charles Bacharach. Real Play later was acquired by Frank Seremba and is back in New Orleans this season as one of the better three-year-old sprinters. Among others, the race is expected to attract E. E. Irbys unbeaten Torch Stick, a son of Torchilla, which has accounted for his only four engagements. Torch Stick won his first start at Washington Park in September under the colors of Dixiana and then was acquired by Irby who tool: the horse to Fair-mount Park. At the Collinsville track the youngster won his next three races, his last victory coming in a handicap at five and a half furlongs in which he came from far back in the stretch to score by a neck. Another likely to be among the starters in the Biloxi is the Louisiana-bred Michigan Flyer, which carried the colors of Joe W. Brown, New Orleans owner, to victory in the first race of the local meeting last Thursday. Michigan Flyer, which vas foaled on the Carencro, La., farm of state senator E. A. Martin, won in the mud on Thanksgiving Day, but the colt is believed to be equally at home on firm footing, which, it is hoped, will prevail for Saturdays feature. Mrs Vera Wyses High Place, second to Michigan Flyer, and Butsey Hernandez Bright, third in the same race, also may be found among the entries for the Biloxi. The juvenile contest will not be the only feature of Saturdays card, for older horses are to come together in the Oaks Handicap, a test of a mile and a sixteenth. Entries for this event also close on Thursday and it, too, should attract a representative field.
