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PREDICTS GREAT WINTER IN NEW ORLEANS. Colonel Rer.aud Reaches Home and Talks Enthusiastically About the Outlook for Racing. Vice-President and General Manager P. A. Renand of the Crescent City Jockey Club, returned to New Orleans Saturday after two months spent In the east. The Picayune of Sunday says he was heartily congratulated on the success which had attended the negotiations for a peace pact and publishes the following Interview: "Everybody was delighted with the harmonious settlement of the differences in New Orleans," said Colonel Renaud, "and it will lead to the greatest winter-racing season New Orleans has ever enjoyed. The Eastern horsemen were very well pleased with it, and a large number of them have signified their Intention of coming to New Orleans next winter. The hotels will not hold the crowd. New Orleans has every reason to look forward to the winter season with enthusiasm. Both the number and the quality of the horses will be an improvement on past years. I dont believe there will be stable room at both tracks to accommodate all the horsemen who will seek quarters. I anticipate that at least 2,500 horses will be brought here this fall. "As to the stakes and purses, there will be an improvement in that department instead of a depreciation, as many were led to -expect from the fact that the war is over. There will be five more stakes to contend for, and the overnight events will be larger. Both tracks Intend to show the horsemen and the public that they will be treated with every consideration and fairness, and with a liberality even in excess of previous years. The meetings will be conducted on a strictly business basis, the free gates being abolished, and with only a friendly rivalry, instead of war to the knife, there is no reason why everybody should not experience the beneficial effects of the harmonizing of our differences. .--.- - - "Our stakes will be issued during the Belmont Park meeting next month, and I may add that Secretary Natbanson has carte blanche to prepare a program that will prove extremely attractive to the class of horses which we want here, and which will undoubtedly be here this year." The Picayune says both tracks were in such fine condition last year that there is little to be done to make them ready for the coming season. Some little improvements are nlways necessary, and they will make them, but there are no radical changes in view. The racing season will be opened by the Crescent City Club Thanksgiving Day, and then the two tracks will alternate with two weeks of racing until the close, of the season, when the City Park track will have the windup. The following year the City Park track will inaugurate the season, and the Crescent City track will close.
