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TWO -YEAR-OLD RACING AT NEW ORLEANS. New Orleans, La., October 17. Joseph A. Murphy, manager of the racing department of the Business Mens Racing Association of New Orleans, has announced that the association will offer a two-year-old race each day of the meeting. "I have had so many requests from horsemen and ,1 breeders asking for this decision that it would seem , our best interests will be served by offering the e races. I am in receipt of a letter from a prominent t breeder saying that the rnle in respect to two-year-olds has lowered the average of yearlings in n the Kentucky sales 00. I am in no position to 0 judge of the correctness of this estimate. Many of the horsemen, who are to race with us, do not t wish to divide their strings and I do not wish to n waste my stalls with unavailable material. "If all the governing bodies will adopt the French I, rule to race no two-year-olds until August the e Business Mens Racing Association will abolish its s two-year-old races, but two-year-old races at New 1 Orleans in January nnd February are no earlier than two-vear-old races in Kentucky and Maryland 1 in April." Racing two-year-olds develops them. 1. Over-racing ruins them. A two-year-old can be e over-raced in September as easily as in January. Westy Hogan and Harry Kelly, the crack two-year-olds I of the vear, were developed in New Orleans ! last winter. "My personal idea- is that the breeders and horsemen have had too much tough sledding the past ten years to curtail their earning capafity v until they get their feet under them."
