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EXODUS TO SEW ORLEANS RACING FOLK ARE BECOMING SCARCE ALONG NEW YORKS "GOLDEN WAY." Winter Interest in Thoroughbreds There Largely Revolves Around. Racing at Fair Grounds G. H. Browne Back from Havana. By Ed Colo. Xcv York", December 29. Broadway is thinning out perceptibly due to the near approach of the racing at New Orleans. One can walk along the "golden way" those days and racing folk are as scarce as flies in snow time. They are all on the way down south, or are packing up the lightweight "duds" and flannels in preparation for a warm season. The last of the big delegation moved southward today when Al llanf stepped on the Southern Railway slseper and bid good-bye to his friends as the tran pulled out. As heretofore, Hanf will walk nronnd the palm garden at New Orleans accommodating all who wish to speculate. If all who have left this section "open up" for business in the garden, there will lie a mighty long list of odd-layers, possibly more than there is needed. Hut such an overabundance of layers always regulates itself on a race course. In a few days the law of supply and demand asserts itself and the ranks and layers become thinned out as a natural conr.se of events. Those left in this city who follow tiie doings of the thoroughbred are anxiously awaiting the opening at New Orleans. Only casually have they scanned the results at the Mexican and Havana tracks for the past month. To them New Orleans will look like the opening of the eastern season owing to their knowledge of the horses and jockeys that will daily appear on the programs. Speculating on Handicap. Already the rank and fiie are speculating on the chances of the nineteen entries in the Xew Years Handicap. The class of horses is sufficient to attract attention, headed by such stout and fast thoroughbreds as Leochares. Hauberk, lolroma. Rrumley, Grumpy, Typhoon, Thornhill and others of more or less standing in tiie turf world. That a highly representative class of horses are being prepared for the meeting is assured by the number of representative owners now on the ground. I?eg:irdii:g the jockeys, who will perform at New Orleans, the most prominent are I. Robinson, Itorol, Crump. Fnirbrothor. MeDcimott. L. Gentry, It. Hoffman and Mott. These riders will surely be in demand. Many new names appear on the list, presumably apprentices in the majority. New Orleans always was a good track for the development of young riding material. It is hoped that some of the new aspirants will show in the limelight before the meeting closes, as good apprentice material is scarce at the present time. Many of the iest riders in this country, during the past generation, graduated from New Orleans. Browne Back from Havana. Grant Hugh Browne is back from Havana, where lie has been the past week looking over the new racing and general sporting plant he ami his associates are building there. "In February," says he, "we are going to have four glove contests for champions of all classes if we can arrange to get them together. Each championship bout will be scheduled to go forty rounds if necessary. It will be a fistic carnival. Mr. Henschell will be here in a few days to make all arrangements. "Early in January we hope to have all our baseball arrangements completed. They are in the hands of Id ike Donlin, and he has already made propositions to sis players -who will no doubt be ready to move to Havana in a few days. As re-Ir gards the racing, we expect to have everything com-f plete by February lo, and will open with a stake to bring all the best horses in Havana together, as well :m others who will go there shortly." In answer to the question whether there would be night racing on the new track, Mr. Browne declared there certainly would not be any night racing this year and it all depended upon future developments whether there would be night racing at any time. In speaking of the new tax which would affect the tracks in the province of Quebec, Mr. Browne, who is much interested in the Mount Royal institution, Maid that he thought the tax fair and reasonable. In concluding his remarks on the Canadian tax subject, Mr. Browne said: "The Mount Royal Association will gladly pay any tax the province or dominion wishes to impose so long as it will leave the association even a small margin."
