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NAMED FOR THE NEW YEARS HANDICAP. Nineteen Nominated to the Opening- Stako Race of the Now Orleans Meeting. New Orleans, La., December 20. Nineteen nominations were made to the New Years Handicap, entries for which closed yesterday. The race is at a mile and one-sixteenth for three-year-olds and over, with ,500 added. There would have been double this number of entries, but for the fact that the track has been so bad recently that the trainers of the best -staying horses quartered at the coutse were unable to give their charges sufficient work. Those nominated were: Herbert Temple. Chilton King. Brumley, Dundreary. Typhoon, Yengliee. Grumpy, Iolroma. Colonel Venule, Syrian. Brian Born. Bryiilimah. For Fair. Leochares. Courtly Lass, Bob Hensley, Hauberk, Gainer and Thornhill. J. M. Booker. Jefferson Livingston and II. Perkins are the only owners who named more than one horse for the stake. Although the going was muddy at the Fair Grounds this morning, the track was opened for horses to work over and there were several hundred of them out. Rain, which fell for nine hours yesterday, makes a fast track out of the question until late in the week. The continuous muddy going is working a hardship on the trainers who attempt to get their charges ready to race during the opening week of the meeting. Max Bloch, who will operate in the "palm garden." was among todays arrivals. He came from Tijuana. It is expected that the large New York delegation will reach here tomorrow. Word has also been received that a big crowd of turfites left Louisville yesterday for this city. A message from jockey T. McTaggart, who is at Tijuana, said that he will arrive here iu time to ride during the opening week of the Fair Grounds meeting.
