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GOSSIP OF THE TTJRF J pThe stewards of the Western Jockey Club at their looting bore tomorrow will be asked to grant censes for spring meetings at Douglas Park lOuisville and Highland Park Detroit and for tie reinstatement of the lessees and officials of hese tracks This announcement was made by lessrs Walter O Parmer of Nashville George M rendrie of Toronto and R C Chambers of Hot prings after a meeting at Cincinnati last Friday In Parmer will be unable to arrange a schedule of fates for these meetings until after the session of tie Board of Stewards of the Grand Circuit of tfot ing meetings which is to be held in Detroit some imp this month The dates will be so arranged nat the Highland Park and Douglas Park meet ngs will nick in with the Canadian Circuit and eciprocal relations with the Western Jockey Club vill be established in Canada In the course of the 6ming week or ten days stakes will be announced prall these meetings leaving the dates on which hey are to be raced to be fixed later laterThe The opening of the New Years racing at New Or ians is thus commented upon by the Picayune of ahuary2 Eight royal was the entertainment furnished cal turfites yesterday for the opening of the years icing There have been bettor days racing at the airGrounds many of them but none having more itisfactory results The crowd that journeyed out the track was1 of the usual holiday temperament id proportions The majority would have been leased with any old sort of racing for to them it vas just an outing with the chance to speculate lappily these humdrum sessions are a thing of the asfr and the regulars were in all candor com ¬ piled to admit that it was winter racing at pretty ear its best notch notchf f f the same sort can be furnished for the re lainder of the meeting it will mean some exceed ngly bright pages for tnrf history and will win for ie Crescent City Jockey Club a following that is srtain to place it on a higher level than heretofore n joyed Those to speculation inclined and this neanfc about every man and woman on the ground nanaged to pick up expenses and a little more Tavorites were beaten in three of the six events lecided still this did not mean anything like sur ¬ prises for the reason that the defeated ones were autfooted by those equally well played The track Ivas a combination of uncertainties On the back Itretch it was fit for record breaking but the final lartcr was an expanse of lumpy sticky holding ndkept the riders on their mettle trying to find the best spots such as they were Under these conditions it was really surprising that results were as close to form as they were Tom Healey will leave New York City for Cali ¬ fornia in a day or two The visit is largely for recreation but while there ho will try to secure a good jockey for Mr R T Wilson Jr whose racing interests are now so important as to warrant employing the best rider available Frank Van Meter has shipped five head of year ¬ lings from his stable in Lexington Ky to Louis yille where they go into winter quarters for the purpose of training
