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OEIVEAXS RACING Speaking of the racing just closed at Now Orleans the Picayune of March 23 had this to say The winter racing season which closed yester dsy has been the most successful in the history of the sport in the south The game was a decided improvement over previous years and this in a measure can be accounted for by the progressive spirit shown by the management A liberal policy was adopted by them this year the purses were raised and the old stereotyped guaranteed value events were done away with and in their stead added moaoy events were given givenThis This naturally drew a much better classof own ¬ ers and horses here and with them came an im ¬ provement in the racing Profiting by their exper ¬ ience this year the club will still further branch out and next season will find some further increase in the amount of money hung up upIf If the present plans are adhered to it will mean that many of the larger stables in the east will be seen here when the season of 190203 is ushered in The money which will be hung up will warrant owners sending good horses here The days of the 250 purses are past and with it goes the merrygo round skates which masqueraded hero some few years ago as race horses horsesA A number of metropolitan horsemen came hero yoiast winter forthe first time All wore well satisfied and many left with the firm intention of coming back again and bringing the best horses they could buy So shrewd a turfman as W Lakeland was quick to see the advantages of campaigning a string of useful horses here He argued that a horseman could gather up half a dozen fair class horses win a few purses and then dispose of them at handsome profits Take for instance the horses Death Myn ¬ heer and Piederich Neither one of the three were thought much of in the east and any one of them could have been purchased at a reasonable figure at Bennings As a matter of fact Death was sold for 1000 to Arthur Worley He brought the old Charaxus gelding here won half a dozen races with him and sold him for 2COO to H Robinson In a few weeks Robinson refused twice this amount for him Then there was Mynheer He was only a cheapsellincr plater running for 400 and 500 around the Aqueduct and Washington tracks Yet he came here ran a few good races and was disposed of for 25CO Piederich cost his owner 700 He won something like 2CCO in purses and was sold for 3000 This shows the possibilities of what a shrewd horseman can do The trouble in past years has been that owners brought worthless ma ¬ terial here and the result was that they reaped but little if any profits Now that the boom is on it ie hoped that the club will do its part and if it can pee its way clear it is more than likely that it will increase the purses still more next year yearThis This seaEon 300 purses were distributed Next year the purses will probably be raised to 100 with a 500 handicap every afternoon for the bettor class horses John W Schorr George C Bennett Wil ¬ liam Lakeland David Gideon and the Messrs Morris have already engaged stalls for next sea
