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PREPARXNO AT NEW ORLEANS. There is considerable activity at the race track at present. The work of getting the barns into shape for the arrival of the racing stock has just bean completed, and now a big force of men are at work painting the grandstand and the betting ring. As yet only a few youngsters purchased by Colonel Bud Benaud in the east are quartered on the race course, but today these youngsters will be joined by the Griffin string, consisting of some twelve or fourteen horses. Griffin, a week ago, engaged stable room for a dozen, and yoaterday notified Secretary Clark that he was on his way south, and would arrive from Chicago this morning. He will find that the qaarters are in perfect condition to receive him, for the stalls were bedded yesterday and put in excellent Bhaps, says the Picayune of Thursday. " The first big shipment is looked for on or about the 17th of November. The Harry JWhite special train will leave Chicago on the 14th or 15th, immediately after the Lakeside meeting, and in this special will be nearly all of the good horses quartered in Chicago. "The prospects for books on the opening day seem much brighter than ever before. It ia expected that the opaaing day will find from fifteen to twenty bookmakers on the block. Cartwright will have a representative on hand, and Mr. Frank will represent Mahoney Mc-Cloud. Barney Schreiber will have a book in the row. "George Bose is also reported to have made arrangemants for quarters hero for the winter Several of the bookmakers, who ha70 been ac customed to visiting California every season , have arranged their plans to spandjjthe.cola months in Now Orleans. "Last season California secured nearly all the good jockeys and a groat many of J the good horsas. By making tho Btakes added money in place of a guarantee the local racacoursel seems to have cut in on the San Francisco arrivals very strongly. It has been the etrongast ?move the Crescent City Jockey Clnb has ever made. "In the way of jockeys, the local course ako seems decidedly wall off this year. It has been stated positively that James Winkfield will ride here this year, and Blake, the colored jockey, who cams originallyjfrom this city, will be down. He iB ridingnow atlOO pounds. ;Bas- singer, another colored boy from here, who haB done good service in the west, will also be on hand. "Tommy Knight will be another of the jockeys seen on the local course daring the winter . Knight last season went to the west, but he comes south this year, with the greater part of tho turf following. "Every indication at present leads the management to believe that they will have moro horses than they can accommodate. The stakes also ssem to bo filling up more rapidly than usual, with a much batter class of horses than 1 last soason." 1 I
