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ADDED MONEY AT NEW ORLEANS TRACK. s g Twice as Much as Last Year "Obstacles" of Last e Summer Prevented 0,000 Derby. " If A. K. Macomber sends his world-famous stake horse. Boots, to New Orleans to contest for the two t big stakes to be run here, he will be lifting the lid for future great racing here. Considering the fact that .3,000 is to bo given away in added money to stakes at the coming Fair Grounds meeting, while not half that amount was , given last year, it is not going too far to presume that the 1918 race meeting here will see one or two g real big stakes perhaps a Crescent City Derby that o will rival the famous Kentucky or Latonia Derbys for value. But for the obstacles which lay in the patli of racing the past summer, it is probable that there would have been one 10,000 stake here this winter. Such a stake race is needed. It would be worth the . while of horsemen like Macomber and Harry Payne Whitney to keep their strings out of winter quarters , if there were rich events like this to go for. As it is, there is considerable stake money at , the coming meeting for horsemen to race for, and this spells the reason for the presence of so many , good horses here. When it is considered that there 1 are three other winter tracks running and that New Orleans has twice the number of horses an one 1 of these tracks is quartering, it is easy to under- stand tl:at the Fair Grounds must be offering ; tempting purses. New Orleans Times Picayune.
