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READY FOR JEFFERSON PARK MEETING MEETINGImprcvcuiants Imprcvcuiants o Plant and Track Completed Sev ¬ eral Hundred Horses on the Grounds New Orleans La November 19 preparations ara rapidly being completed for a big opening of the winter racing in New Orleans which will btvushered in Saturday November 23 at Jefferson Park The track has been put in splendid condition repairs having been made to the grandstand clubhouse burns etc and the entire Shrewsbury plant is in tiptop shape to start the thirtythree day meeting meetingMore More than three hundred thoroughbreds have ar ¬ rived for the long winter season which opening November 23 will continue through March 4 1919 with the running of the Business Mens Racing Associations fiftyfour day meeting opening Jan nary 1 at the Fair Grounds As a goodly number of thoroughbreds have been stabled at Jefferson Iark for several weeks dozens of them are in condi ¬ tion to answer the notes of Boots and Saddles and a fine opening day program already is in the making makingThe The influenza epidemic having spent its course winter visitors already have started to pour into New Orleansj Reports from Kentucky Maryland and New York are to the effect there will be a greater number of tourists and racing lovers in New Orleans the coming yinter than ever before The end of the war stamping out of the influenza and the greatly increased popularity of thoroughbred sport through its indorsement by the Remount Divi ¬ sion and high military officers and through the connection of so many wealthy and influential men all will tend to attract winter travelers to the winter capital of Americr AmericrHorses Horses arriving here and they are coming daily are being stabled at both Jefferson Park and the Fair Grounds It is not quite seven miles from the Fair Grounds to Jefferson Park and horsemen who stable t one track say they will arrange to have their honses shipped by motor van from track to track Two big specially constructed automobile vans some of the same type which van the horses about among the New York and Maryland tracks will be here all winter During Jeffersons season thev will take horses there from the Fair Grounds and during the Fair Grounds meeting they will operate from Jefferson Park Big receiving barns ar being prepared at both tracks for these vis ¬ itors itorsTSACK TSACK IN FINE CONDITION CONDITIONManager Manager Anthony Rottprich is leaving no stone unturned to make Jefferson Parks race course one of the best in the country A new surface lias been placed over the entire track and recently Manager Konprich has raised that section near the three quarter post The whole track has settled but is far from being hard It is predicted that the track will be exceptionally fast A half mile in 47 recorded a few days ago would seem to indicate so soWilliam William M Sheedy wellknown and popular train ¬ er has high hopes of developing some fine racing timlKr from a choice band of yearlings he lias brought down for the winter season Sheedy is training for a wealthy business man of Washington I C and his horses will race under the colors of the Winons Point Stable His string includes a brown colt by Assagai Mountain Mist brown filly l Ridium Washerwoman bay filly by The Coot Marian Gray brown filly by Angel Jim Villialla bay filly y Ballot Sadie B Besides Sheedy has Napoleon and Jessie C two platers platersW W E Norvell for many years a racing official on race tracks through the United States and Can ¬ ada has arrived for the winter season He says horsemen and tourists alike all are setting tluir heads toward New Orleans and predicts that another week will find a niidseason crowd of visitors in this city Al cityAl Clopton who trains a big string for J O TalUitt arrived yesterlay A number of Cloptous horses have been here a week and the other sec ¬ tion of the stable is on the way from Maryland His string includes such good ones as Icarus Happy Go Lucky Cobalt Star Realm Kultur Kentucky Boy Iilseu Manoevre and others othersEd Ed Peters is comfortably located at Jefferson Park with a small but select string He has Runes Reveler Thos F McMahon Hindoos tan and another anotherJake Jake Byer has a useful string in Columbine Or ¬ derly Onwa and several others and probably will have them all here He already has brought Colum ¬ bine down and is looking to see this speedy filly give a good account of herself in the sprints sprintsFrank Frank Bray who limits his winter training activi ¬ ties to two or three horses is among the recent arrivals J J Troxler will be here with Fern Ilandley and several others including two yearlings Fern Ilandley is a good filly and should go well here in the winter winterSixteen Sixteen yearlings belonging to A B Spreckels will be shipped to the Fair Grounds and raced there as twoyearolds early iu January
