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HIGH PLANE OP NEW ORLEANS RACING. Washington. D. C. November 30. — The sincerest flattery yet accorded the Business Mens Racing Association of New Orleans developed today when part of tlie stable of K. T. Wilson, president of the Saratoga Association, was shipped to the Crescent City. Saratoga has always filled the public eye as the s| ortiest race meeting in the Vnited States and the determination of its president to send a stable to New Orleans is pr.iof conclusive that he is keenly interested in the manner in which racing is conducted there and desired to give his approval to it in a manner that no one would misunderstand. The Wilson horses that were shipped from here were Hester Prynne. Pixy. Naushon and Ethan Allen. Trainer T. J. Healey wil select six imported yearlings from the New York lot to supplement the shipment. Jockey J. McTaggart will go with the stable. Manager Joseph A. Murphy, who is here presiding at Bowie, is highly elated over the co-oi eration that he is getting from the better class of horsemen. "One of my associates in the stand said to me yesterday that what I would have to guard against was the track getting tlie reputation of being a "rich mails track. He did not know that what he feared for me was the very ?oal towards which I was striving. I have no ambition to simply run a winter race meeting. I would make the Fair Grounds the Saratoga of tlie south. I would give it a world-wide reputation as the Mecca for the lietter class of tourists, for the wealthy breeders of purebred stock of every kind and for the scientific and progressive tillers of the soil. Many people have wondered why I have given stable room to so many yearlings. I have done this purposely. In another year I shall present to breeders who race their own produce and to those who are large purchasers of yearlings a plan to build their own stables on the grounds, where they can ship tlieir stables tn winter and develop their young stock. They will have all the privileges of a perfectly equipped track in a semi-tropic country and can ship to Kentucky or Maryland in April with every horse at its top form. There will be no rental nor will there be any obligation to race with us unless the owner elects. Should he do so he will have the opportunity to try out in actual competition those that he considers his best and at the same time have an active market for his culls. "Tlie business men of New Orleans and myself are extremely fortunate in the class of horsemen we are attracting. They come from all parts of the Inited States and Canada and I feel that we shall have them shoulder to shoulder with us for uplifting and perpetuating the sport. "It has always been my ambition to manage a race track where there was no purse of less than S1.000. If professional race track promoters will keep their hands off New Orleans and allow the Inisiness men and myself to work out this problem unhampered and if the small minority that would have our institution deteriorate simply into an asylum for local indigents will take a broader view of the whole proixrsition this eventually will lie reached." _________
