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LARGER PURSES AT JEFFERSON PARK Management to Offer Big Inducements to Secure Higher Grade of Horses for Winter Meeting New Orleans La September 10 Horsemen will have every encouragement to get their horses here early next winter ami have them in condition to start racing at Jefferson Iark It practically has been settled by the directors of the Jefferson Fair Association that nurses will be considerably larger this year than last and therefore there will be no excuse for horsemen keening their best thoroughbreds in the barns during the early part of the meeting meetingThe The racing meeting at Shrewsbury last year was more in the form of an experiment The Supreme Courts decision legalizing oral betting had not been rendered when the Jefferson Fair Associa ¬ tion started to build its 250000 plant A storm which left 10000 damages in its wake was an ¬ other thing to take Into consideration and the association dill not believe it could see its way clear to guarantee big purses for its initial season seasonBut But all that has been lived through and this fall will find Jefferson Park opening with a much brighter prospect With the assurance of eighty five days of racing at New Orleans next winter it can be taken for granted there will be 1000 or more horses of higher type than the 1000 which were here last year yearThe The requests for stable room will be carefully picked over by both the managements of the Jef ¬ ferson Iark and Fair Grounds and none of the undesirables of the turf or the stables of bush horses will be given any encouragement encouragementThough Though no announcement lias been made by either track as to the size of purses to be offered it is believed Jefferson Iark will give no purse of less than 500 while the Fair Grounds mini ¬ mum will he iOO iOOStakes Stakes aro being arranged to be run at both tracks It is understood Manager Uouprich and Secretary Kinstein of Jefferson Iark aro putting their heads together and discussing the advisability of scheduling a big handicap something of about 5000 in value As the Fair Grounds stake books contain several such big stakes and many minor ones owners nd breeders will undoubtedly hurry their best thoroughbreds here to gather some of the coin coinA A big exodus of horses will take place from Kentucky immediately after the close of blue grass fall racing Many uf the racer will be brought down the Mississippi on barges thus saving railroad congestion
