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ON TEEIll WAY TO HAVANA. OWNERS, TRAINEES. RIDERS AND HORSES GATHER IN NEW ORLEANS. Useful Class of Race Horses a Noticoablo Feature George C. Bennetts String for Racing in California. I New Orleans, La., November 22. The scenes at ! City 1ark raee course yesterday morning reminded one of the old days previous to the opening of the 1 llg winter meeting there. Several carloads of horses got in from the north, and in all about fifty thoroughbreds were unloaded. They were housed 1 in the stables at the course, when they will rest j up until November 20. the date set for the next sailing of the steamship Excelsior for Havana. Some 1 of the horses which got in are well known by frc- quonters of the local tracks. There was not u sick 1 horse in the lot. and all appeared to sufTcr no ill j effects from their journey. W. Perkins and Scott Williams string were the ; first to be brought off the cars. There were four j head in thisi lot, as follows: Dear Maria. Omaniosa. I St. Aulaire and Duomo. They were sent to stables , G. K. L. Fitzgerald brought Lady Ethel and Water ! Cooler. Doth these horses showed good performances : at City Park last winter. Lady Ethel ran in the ; colors of Denny Vincent. B. H. Troxler. brother to jockey Roscoe Troxler, came with Drown .lug. Washakie. Charlotte Hamilton and Dona II. K. W. Uaxters string included French Nun, Claiborne, Colonel Dine and Rexall. The big black goat, which always accompanies French Nun. was also in the Baxter consignment. This goat and French Nun L have been companions since the latter was a two-M year-old. and the stable hands are forced to lock B the goat up whenever the mare is sent to the post in a race. There is a great attachment between the pair and on the trip from Latonia to New Orleans V the goat sto-xl under the mare all the way. G. H. 9 Dudley came with three. Itose F., Daisy Shine and Guarda. Clarence Davis brought down his handsome two .year-old Ally, Elsa F.. and A. Beatty came with Bitter Hand, a mare that showed excellent form on the Canadian circuit last season. Ira Cox luought two useful ones in Malecon and Granada. Another consignment is due in the morning, two carloads coming from Nashville and another car from Latonia. K. E. Palmer and William Gerst are sending some of their best horses from Nashville, while the Latonia car will Include the stables of H. McCarren, Jr.. W. P. Reed and A. Martin. Race-goers will readily notice the absence of riffraff in the Cuban consignment, which means that the horsemen that will take part in the Havana meeting this year will be entirely different from those who took part in the racing there last winter. The Kople back of the project are determined that the raring at Almendares shall be clean and free from scandal, and especial attention will be paid to the touts who may venture to go to Cuba with the idea that they will not lie known to the leeal authorities and in that way be permitted to operate. The Pinkertons will attend to that end of the game and see that the ring is free from objectionable characters. George C. Bennett, who at one time raced a powerful stable at both the local tracks, was in town last week. He Is on his way to Texas to attend a conference of the directors of a company of Memphis capitalists who operate a large rice farm and rice mill in Texas. Mr. Bennett has not entirely deserted the turf, as he has three thoroughbreds still left which were shipped to California in charge of his old trainer. Tom Neppcr. They are the four-year-old Ethon. which showed such high-class fofin on the Canadian circuit this summer: a two-year-old full brother to that great filly. Dishabille, and a yearling Elrter to Petulant. The two-year-old is said to be a real good horse and if reports from Neppcr are to be believed, he is the best horse that Mr. Bennett ever owned. "He will have to show me that he is a great colt before I believe it." said Mr. Bennett in speaking of the youngster yesterday. "I told Nepper that I owned at different times sonic great race horses, and also some that could burn up a track in their trials. Still. I trust that lie is right, for I cant deny that I still love a real good horse. Nepper wished to go to California and I did not interfere with hi3 plans. California is too far a journey, however, to go to see a horse race and I will content myself with a trip to Cuba, and whatever racing I witness during the coming winter will be In Havana. From what I understand they are going to have a good meeting at the Cuban vapital, and I hope they do. as it will mean much to some . of the owners who do not feel like making a trip , . across the continent to race their horses. Several of my friends in Memphis are also going to Havana this winter, so I will have lots of company down there." None of the turf magnates who were reported coming . here to attend an important confereuce have as . yet turned up. This was to be expected, as all hope : of giving a meeting at cither of the big tracks was 1 abandoned weeks ago. The Crescent City Jockey Club dont want racing at the Fair Grounds this i winter, anil President Samuel V. Heaslip of the . . City "Park Jockey Club made known his intentions I B In regard to racing in an interview -printed a few days ago. These gentlemen realize that it would 1 be useless to attempt to give a meeting without some sort of betting. The WasMngton Park Jockey Club, the strongest association of Its kind in tie country, attempted to nun out its mooting several years ago at Chicago without betting and it proved such ju dismal failure that the meeting was shut down suddenly. At the New York courses last summer only a handful of people turned out to witness the racing, and there was even some sort of betting there, too. The general public will not go to a rate track where they are liable to bo arrested for an infringement of the law. and it would be the same hero if cither of the two big tracks were to open and attempt to run. Horsemen, too. are a bit chary, and they appear to have but little confidence in the promises hebl out of meetings being made to pay which depend entirely on the gate receipts. It is for this reason, probably, that so many local owners are anxious to go to Cuba.
