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STRONGEST NEW ORLEANS STABLES. New Orleans, La., December 12. Burlew and ONeill and James H. McCormick have by far the strongest eastern stables here. Al Weston has a dozen or more, including some two-year-olds, bred at the Clyde establishment on the eastern shore, Chesapeake Bay, but there is nothing that sizes up as a real good one in his collection. He will win some purses later in the season. Ex-jockey George Odoin has a fairish lot of selling platers that lie brought down here to dispose of as well as to raco, as none of them is speedy enougli to have much chance on the eastern tracks. A. C. Me-Cafferty lias a useful stable, but J. J. McCaffertys lot of ten or a dozen were picked up at bargain counter prices here and there in ttie east during the fall, and the former "wizard of the turf will no doubt be lucky if he earns a reasonable share qf the selling plate money. Albert Simons, who In previous years has always been a factor In winter racing here, brought down only three or four of his own. He is training a few also for other par-tiea, but his stable is much weaker than it has been in previous seasons. Dick Watkins has a useful lot. A larger number of eastern owners than in former years with from one to two or three horses each are hero this winter anil out of this varied aggregation something of good class may develop as the season progresses.
