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NEW ORLEANS STAKE RACE PROGRAM. New Orleans, La., October 25. Directors of the Business Mens Racing Association have approved the list of stakes presented by racing manager Joseph A. Murphy. The stake book for this winters racing is rich in big purses, ranging from ,000 to the Crescent City Handicap, ,000 added. As compared with the stakes offered last winter, the coming meetings program entirely eclipses the meeting of last winter. The Hotel Mens Handicap, ,000 added, was the biggest attraction of the 101G meeting. This stake will be offered again this year, and the Crescent City Handicap, ,000 added, has been thrown in. It was decided that there would be no purse less than 00 and no handicap of less than 1916.sh00. The Crescent City Handicap will be run Mardi Gras Day and will feature the close of the meeting. This race will be at one mile and a quarter for three-year-olds and over. It is expected to be the drawing card which will persuade some of the biggest horsemen on the turf to ship their best thoroughbreds here. They will come to shoot at this stake, as well as at the Hotel Mens Handicap and the other stakes of ,000 to ,000. Long-distance racing will be catered to during the coming meeting. The conditions of the stake races here are such that horsemen will not have a big forfeit to pay if they enter their racers and do not start. Small entrance and starting fees will be charged, and as the races close only a few days before they are run, trainers will be given every opportunity to enter only thoroughly conditioned horses, and so will lose nothing by scratching. In addition to the list of stakes and handicaps, the Business Mens Racing Association has offered to the merchants and manufacturers of New Orleans the opportunity of having handicaps named for themselves by offering cups or trophies. Already one of the prizes has been offered. The AVestern Fruit Jobbers Association, which holds a convention here January 29, has asked for the privilege of giving a handsome cup for one of the handicaps. This offer will be accepted, and manager Joseph A. Murphy said he was convinced that the fruit jobbers would throng the Fair Grounds 5,000 strong on the day of their handicap. The New Years Day Handicap, one mile and a sixteenth, ,500 added, will feature the opening day card. The City Park Handicap, one mile, ,000 added, is scheduled for January 0. On Jan-uarv 13, the St. Charles Hotel Handicap, ,000 added, one mile, will be run. The Gentilly Handicap on January 20, Mouteleone Hotel Handicap on January 25, Cosmopolitan Hotel Handicap on February 3, Comus Handicap on February S, all with ,000 added, will carry the meeting up to the running of the Hotel Mens Handicap. This will be at one mile and a sixteenth, for three-continued on second page. NEW ORLEANS STAKE RACE PROGRAM. Continued from first page. year-olds and over. It is the same race which Marion Goosby won last winter, with Skeer Face second and Pan Zaretii third. The Proteus Handicap, one mile and a half, February 15, and Momus Highweight Handicap, three-quarters, both with ,000 added, will be followed on February 17 by the Rex Handicap, one mile and an eighth. ,000 added. The Martin Behrman Handicap, two miles, ,200 added, is scheduled for February 19, and on the following day will be run the piece dn resistance of the meeting, the ,000 Crescent City Handicap. A recapitulation shows that the association has hung up 3,700 in stakes for the horsemen to come here for. This, when coupled with the fact that no race will be for less than 00, witli a 1916.sh00 handicap nearly every day, brings the purse money up to about ,000 per day. Such an attractive meeting, manager Murphy says, will get the attention of horsemen from all parts of North America, and his only fear is that there will not sufficient stable room for the many thoroughbreds that will come for the winter sport. The high-class horses will bring many tourists, and New Orleans, accoring to racing Manager Murphy, is in for the banner winter season of all time. .
