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NEW ORLEANS STAKES. In this issue of Dailt Racing Form will be found the conditions of twenty-one important stakes, offered by the prosperous Crescent City Jockey Club of New Orleans. Their appearance is token that the. northern racing campaign is rapidly .drawing to a close and it will not be a great while until tho attention of followers of the turf will be turned exclusively to the two great centers of winter racing San Francisco and New Orleans. It is to the credit of the Crescent City Jockey Club that it has abandoned the played-out system of guaranteed stakes and adds a liberal sum from its own treasury to each of these stakes. This, in connection with the fact that the purees have been raised until ucna will be of less value than 300, adds to tha dignity and importance of the meet" ing and will prove strongly attractivo to horsemen. Among the attractive features are the Inaugural Handicap, ,250 added; tho Crescent City Derby, ,500 added; the Magnolia Selling, ,C00 added; the Preliminary Derby, ,E00 added; the Crescent City Handicap, ,500 added ; tho Merchants Handicap, 5l,5C0 added; tho Christmas Handicap, the Jackson Handicap, the Qeorgo Washington Handicap and the Bnsh Cup Handicap, all ,250 added, while thoso receiving ,000 each added money are the New Orleans Handicap, the Audubon Handicap, the Gontilly Handicap, tho Livo Oak Handicap Bweepstakos, the Cotton Selling Stakes, the Club House Handicap, the Do Soto Handicap, the Speed Handicap and the Oakland Handicap. Here is 5,500 already arranged for, in the firBt issue of stakes which close November 14, 1901. It should also be noted that the Club has at considerable expense constructed a steeplechase course, second to none in the country, and intends giving two or more races a woek over it during tho meeting.
