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CRESCENT CJTY STAKES. Owners are reminded that the date for closing, em-tries to the big list of stakes offered by the Crescent City Jockey Club is near at hand. Every indication points to a winter meeting at New Orleans that will exceed in interest and prosperity evea f that of 1901-2, and that is saying a great deal. The sweeping increase of tho purses to a minimum value of 00 is a factor that serves to attract more owners and horses than have heretofore contributed to the success of the Crescent City meetings.! One of the principal features is the Inaugural Handicap for all ages, ,250 added, six furlongs, only to accompany tho nomination. Then comes the Magnolia Selling Stakes, ,000 added, at a mile, all ages. Tho Palmetto Sweepstakes, two-year-olds, six furlongs, .0C0 added. The Preliminary Derby Handicap Sweepstakes, two-year-olds, six furlongs, ,500 added. Tho Crescent City Handicap Sweepstakes, a mile and a quarter, ,500 added, all ages. The Xmas Handicap, ,000 added, all ages, a mile, and tho New Orleans Handicap Sweepstakes, four-year-olds and upward, seven furlongs, ,0CO addgd closes out the year. 4 MQPf Opening 1903 with tho Now Years Handicap Sweepstakes, three-year-olds, a milo and seventy yards, ,000 added, there follows the Audubon Handicap Sweepstakes, three-year-olds and upward, at a mile and a sixteenth, ,000 added. Tha Jackson Handicap Sweepstakes is a mile and a half, three-year-olds and upward, ,000 added. The -Gentilly Handicap Sweepstakes, three-year-olds and upward, six and a half furlougs, ,000 added. The Live Oak Handicap Sweepstakes, seven furlong3, three-year-olds and upward, ,C00 added. The. , Cotton Selling Sweepstakes at ono mile, three-year.olds and upward, ,000 added. The Merchants Handicap Sweepstakes, at one mile and a sixteenth, three-year-olds and upward, ,EC0 added. The . Club House Handicap Sweepstakes, tbree-year-olds and upward, ,000 added. The De Soto Handicap Sweepstakes, three-year-olds and upward, six furlongs, ,000 added. The George Washington Handicap Sweepstakes, ,000 added, a mile and a sixteenth, all ages. The Speed Handicap, six furlongs, three-year-olds and upward, ,000 added. Tho Oakland Handicap Sweepstakes, a mile and a quarter, ,000 added. The Bush Cup Handicap Sweepstakes, ,500 added, and a piece of plate valuod at 00, over two miles and a quarter, and the Crescent City Derby, a mile and an eighth, ,500 added, three-year-olds. The Derby will be tho first three-year-old stake of importance of 1903 oast of the Rockey Mountains and as such will fitly close the big hundred days meeting. As a local contribution to the meeting Harry White, the assistant secretary of the Crescent City Jockey Club, and who is looking aftor the stake entries at this point, has made arrangements to ship the following horses to New Orleans at the close of the Roby meeting. Arthur, J 12 Arthur, H 2 Abadie, Mrs. M 4 Arnold, E. J. and Co 6 Burke, W. and Co 4 Bender, S. S, and Co 8 Butler, B 2 Burdeau. C. K 4 Barrett, J F 3 Bolich. R. G. and Co 4 Bradley, E. R 4 Carey, T 4 Cunniegham, B. J 2 Cotton, H. A 4 Cochran, J 4 Clerico, J 2 Durnell and Herz. 15 DeWitt and Co 8 Dornham and Curtis 8 Evers. J B 2 Fizer and Co 10 Foster, V.. and Co 4 Gardner, H 2 Glasscock, I. and Co 3 Gray, J. B 4 Griffin, H. T 12 Hatfield and Ownbey 8 Herman and Cassin ...... 3 Herendeen and Co 2 Jordan, M 4 Johnson, C. A. and Co... 10 Krewer, J. P 2 Licalzi, T 3 Morris, E 2 McHale, T. J 4 McMillan. J. D. and Co.. 3 Mahoue, 0, E 2 Moody and Everett 3 Morton, S.iG . 6 McGuiro, P .., 2- Mulo, G... 3 Newman, J. F 4 OHorn, T 2 Keono, J. O. and Co 4 Sullivan, T. D. 4 Rodgers, D P. and Co.. 3 Saxtoa, H L, 2 Sabath, M 3 Smith, F. . . . Trotter, E 3 Willis, A. B.. i VVesteriioia,Mrii.Ii.-l , t5 Waters, J. C S
