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KENTUCKIANS AFTER MONEY STRONG KENTUCKY STABLES REPRESENTED IN THE STAKES AT NEW ORLEANS. Crescent City Already Crowded with Visitors Seeking Quarters for the Length of the Approaching Race Meeting. Ncav Orleans. December 14. Kentuckv horsemen are confident that they will carry off the lions share of the prizes at the coming meeting at the Fair Grounds track, and they have sent some of the best the market affords in the Avay of thoroughbreds from the Blue Grass State. In long-route races, as Avell as the sprinting races, the Kcn-tuckians have horses to enter which can hold their own in any company, but they will find competition pretty keen, as the east is also stronglv represented here. At no previous meeting in recent years has there been as many horses shipped from Kentuckv as this year, and many owners avIio. heretofore, haA-e rested their charges during the cold months in tli!! north, are to race here this Avinter. Most of the horses from the Blue Grass State have been here for some time and all are thoroughly acclimated and ready to race on short notice. AVhat, with good racing luck, should be one of the most successful stable here, is that of H. L. Baker, avIio will arrive next week. Pif Jr., Avinner of the Latonia Cup, is the best of the fourteen Avhich Baker will bring, and, as there are several long-route stakes to be run, all of good monetary values, lie Avill have a chance to score frequent honors. In the sprinting division the Kentuckians hold some good cards in Chalmers, Mars Cassidy, Cucle Hart and Fleetabelle. The latter can also go over a longer route of ground and, as she is training in grand form, she should render a good account of herself, especially if she starts a few times in the mud. The sprinters will find plenty to do, however, in the various handicaps, as they avIH be called on to meet such cracks as Leochares and Pan Zareta, and these two horses Avere never better than they are right now. AVhcn Chalmers is at his best, and with a good adjustment of AA-eights. he and Leochares will put up an interesting battle for honors. His ability to steal an earlv lead, oAving to his knack of beginning quick, will help him, but every one avIio has seen Leochares race, knoAVS that he will have to keep running at almost phenomenal speed to beat the sou of Broomstick Leayonara. Noav Orleans is crowded with racing people cath this early, and from every section of the country are coming requests for reservations to the A-arious hotels. The real influx Avill begin the day after Christmas and. it is expected that there will be far more people hero for the races than Avere here last Avinter. New Orleans has been rightfully named the "Saratoga of the South," and the high grade of horses which will race OA-er the Fair Grounds track makes it seem like a meeting in the North or East than a Avinter meeting. The Business Mens Racing Association has left nothing undone in the Avay of providing financial inducements for the horsemen avIio are to nice here. Fifteen stake races will be decided, including the Crescent City Handicap, a ,000 added affair at a mile and a quarter. This will be run on Mardi Cras Day, February 20. There also Avill be the Hotel Mens Handicap, ,000 guaranteed at one and a sixteenth miles and the Rex Handicap, Avhich has an added value of ,000. This will he at one and an eighth miles. Jim Osborne, chief assistant to starter Harry Morrissey, and formerly Avith starter Mars Cassidy. Avill be one of the assistants to starter A. It. Dade here this Avinter. Osborne served as starter on the racing circuit in far Avestern Canada during the past summer, and reports from that section said, that he did his Avork well. He is on the ground her now, aAvaiting the arrival of his chief. It will not be long until the schooling of horses will begin and, for that reason, Osborne came here at an early date. Judge John B. Campbell. avIio next year -will bo racing secretary at all of the Kentucky, tracks AVlth the exception of Lexington, Avill serve as an official here. He will be associate judge and clerk of the scales, a position Avhich he has filled during the tAVo previous Avinters. This is his home town and he has been here since Latonia closed.
