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FOUR ,000 STAKES FOR FAIR GROUNDS Total of 241,500 to Be Distributed During Winter Meeting of Forty-Ono Days. NEW ORLEANS, La., October 9. The purse distribution at the Fair Grounds the coming winter will be the most liberal in the history of winter racing. At a meeting of the Business Mens Racing Association here Tuesday night it was decided to offer the following scale of purses: Three 00 purses, three 00 purses and one ,000 purse daily. It was further decided to offer four ,000 stakes, the first of which will be known as the Nev Years Day Handicap, and will be run opening day at the Fair Grounds, January 1, 1920, the Crescent City Handicap, which will be run about the middle of January; the Martin Behrmau Handicap, at two miles, which will be run early in February, ami the Mardi Gras Handicap, which will be run on the closing day of the meeting, February 17. On the days the ,000 stakes are run there will be no ,000 handicap. This will give the forty-one-day meeting a daily distribution of ,500, with 0,000 in added money going to the stakes, and in all a total of 41,500 for the meeting. President B. C. McClellan and manager It. . Eddy have gone to Kentucky, where they intend to try and persuade the largest stables which have .not taken part in winter racing heretofore to come down for the sport next winter. Work tin both Jefferson Park and the Fair Grounds is being completed and both plants are in splendid condition.
