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WINTER DATES AND STAKES NEW ORLEANS SEASON WILL OPEN NOVEMBER 23 AND CLOSE APRIL 11. Thirty-nine Stakes to Close November 9 City Park Derby Is Increased to 0,000 New Track to Open First. New Orleans, La., August 20. The winter season of racing at the local tracks under the auspices of the City Park Jockey Club and the Crescent City Jockey Club will embrace 121 days, sixty-one days at- City Park and sixty days at the Fair Grounds. The season will open at City Park November 23 and close at the Fair Grounds April 11. The plan of alternating every two weeks will" be in vogue, the dates having been fixed as follows: City Park November 23 to December 7. Fair Grounds December 0 to December 21. City Park December 23 to January 4. Fair Grounds January ! to January IS. City Park January 20 to 1ebruary 1. Fair Grounds February 3 to February 15. City Park February 17 to February 20. Fair Grounds March "2 to March 14. City Park March 10 to March 2S. Fair Grounds March 30 to April 11. As was announced from New York some time ago, Matt J. Winn of Louisville, Ky., is to be the general manager of both tracks and Ed W. Magiun of St. Louis, has taken up his duties of racing secretary for both clubs. Mr. Maginns lirst work was the preparation of the following list of thirty-nine stakes twenty for City Park and nineteen for the Fair Grounds nominations to which will close Saturday, November 0: CITY PARK JOCKEY CLUB. Initial Handicap, for all ages, ,500 added, one mile; Saturday, November 23. Thanksgiving Handicap, for all ages, ,500 added, one and one-sixteenth miles; Thursday, November 28, Test Stakes, for all ages, ,000 added, three-quarters of a mile; Saturday, November 30. Cypress Handicap, for three-year-olds and upward, ,500 added, one mile and an eighth; Saturday, December 7. Christmas Handicap, for all ages; ,500 added, one and one-sixteenth miles; Wednesday, December Planter Stakes, for two-year-olds, ,000 added, seven-eighths of a mile; Saturday, December 2S. New Year Handicap, for three-year-olds foals of 1005, ,000 added, one mile; Wednesday, January 1. Cosmopolitan Hotel Hurdle Handicap, for three-year-olds, ,000 added, one and a quarter miles; Saturday, January 4. Tulane Selling Stakes, for three-year-olds and upward. ,000 added, one mile; Wednesday, January 22. King Cotton Stakes, for three-year-olds and upward. ,250 added; one mile, Saturday, January 25. National Stakes, for two-year-olds foals of 1000, ,000 added, three-eighths of a mile; Wednesday, January 20. Heaslip Cup, for three-year-olds and upward, ,500 added, two miles; Saturday, February 1. Legarde Selling Stakes, for three-year-olds foals of 1105, ,000 added, .one mile; Wednesday, February 1!. Martha Washington Stakes, for two-year-olds v foals of, 1000. ,000 added, three and one-half furlongs; Saturday, February 22. Orleans Handicap, for three-year-olds and upward, ,000 added, three-quarters of a mile; Wednesday, February 20. Pickwick Steeplechase Handicap, for three-year-olds and upward. ,000 added, full course; Saturday, February 20. Louisiana Stakes, for two-year-olds foals-of 1000, ,000 added; one-half mile: Wednesday, March 18. City Park Derby, for three-year-olds foals of 1005, 0,000 guaranteed, one and one-quarter miles; Saturday, March 21. Juvenile Stakes, for two-year-olds foals of 1000. ,000 added: one-half mile; Wednesday, March 25. Lyric Handicap, for three-year-olds and upj-ird, ,000 added, one and one-half miles; Saturday, March 28. CRESCENT CITY JOCKEY CLUB. f Inaugural Handicap, for all ages. ,500 added, three-quarters of a mile; Monday, December !. Crescent City Stakes, for two-year-olds, ,000 added, live and one-half furlongs; Saturday, De-cemlwr 14. Gcntilly Selling Stakes, for all ages, ,000 added, six and a half furlongs: Wednesday, December IS. Preliminary Derby Handicap, for two-year-olds, ,500 added, three-quarters of a mile; Saturday, December 21. Old Hickory Handicap, for tliree-ycar-olds and upward, ,250 added, one and one-quarter miles; Wednesday. January S. Speed Handicap, for three-year-olds and upward, ,000 added, three-quarters of a mile; Saturday, January 11. Magnolia Selling Stakes, for three-year-olds and upward, ,000 added, one mile; Wednesday, January 15. Merchants Handicap, for three-year-olds and upward, ,250 added, one mile; Saturday, January IS. Premier Stakes, for two-year-olds foals of 100G, ,000 added, one-half mile: Wednesday, February 5. St. Charles Hotel Handicap, for three-year-olds and upward, ,500 added, one and one-quarter miles; Saturday, February 8. Mississippi Selling Stakes, for three-year-olds, ,000 added, one mile; Wednesday, February 12. IJusli Cup Handicap, for three-year-olds and upward, ,500 added, two and one-quarter miles; Saturday. February 15. Rex Handicap, for three-year-olds and upward, ,000 added, one and one-eighth miles; Tuesday, Mareli 3. Carnival Stakes, for two-year-ohls foals of 1000, ,000 added, four and one-half furlongs; Saturday, March 7. Crescent City Derby, for three-year-olds foals of 1005, 0,000 guaranteed, one and one-eighth miles; Saturday, March 14. Ladies Stakes, for two-year-olds foals of 1000, ,000 added, one-half mile; Wednesday, April 1. Audubon Selling Stakes, for three-year-olds and upward, ,000 added, one and one-sixteenth miles; Saturday, April 4. Rosebud Stakes, for two-year-olds foals of 1900, ,000 added, five-eighths of a mile; Wednesday, April S. New Orleans City Railways Handicap, for three-year-olds and upward, ,000 added; Saturday, April 11. The stakes vary but little from those of last . season beyond the fact that some of the stakes WINTER DATES AND STAKES. Continued from first page. which last season were run at the Pair Grounds will be decided the coining winter over the City Park track. This condition is ncecssltalrd by the agreement as to dales entered into when the treaty of peace between the two tracks was signed in 100C and by the further fact that the events referred to are run on holidays and take their names from the days on which they are run, such as the Christmas Handicap, New Years Handicap, the Thanksgiving Day Handicap, and so on. Iiast year all the big holidays fell to the Fair Grounds. This coining winter the new track will have them. The values of the events have been slightly increased, the increases amounting to nbout ,500 on a season .at each track. The City Park Derby, which last year was run as a straight added money event with a premium of $.,0011, will this winter lie a guaranteed race with a value of .flO.OOO, just as the last Crescent City Derby was and will.be again. The City Park Derby lias also been changed in its conditions by the addition of a live-pound IM-nalty for the "winner of ,.$..,000 in 19oS." As it will be run on .March 21. this penalty will hardly apply to any other than the winner of the Crescent City Derby, which will lie run a week earlier, unless perchance the winners of the Ascot Derby and the California Derby should be sent to New Orleans for the race. Tin; switch in the stakes gave to City Park three events exclusively for three-year-olds, leaving to tlie Fair Grounds only its Derby for horses of that age. This would make the Fair Grounds list look rather sparse, so a new stake for the youngsters, to be called the "Mississippi Selling Stakes," with ,000 added money, has been added to the Fair Grounds list.
