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NEW ORLEANS PROSPECTS EXCELLENT Early Indications Point to Host Successful "Winter Meetings Ever Held in Crescent City. NEW ORLEANS, La., October 28. All early indications point to the greatest winter season of racing ever held in this city. The Kcntuckians are coming down to reap the harvest for which they have been resting up and pointing their stables; the easterners are coming down to see the "hard-boots" do not get it all. New Orleans will be the melting pot and, as this will be the first year when the biggest stables are going to forget their suspicions that winter racing injures their horses, stars of the turf should bt plentiful, and good jockeys to ride them should be even more plentiful. The contention that winter racing dulled two-yoar-blds and other horses never was more convincingly disproved than during this year. Racing under the worst, conditions imaginable down here all winter, thoroughbreds left local tracks and went east and west and more than held their own. Reports botli from the east and west bring news that the owners and trainers no longer fear winter racing. They are coming down strong. They realize the weather cannot be any worse this year than It was last, and there is every reason to hope for better. At any rate, accommodations at both local tracks are so far ahead of what they were last year that it is going to take an awful spell of weather to make things uncomfortable for horses and horsemen. The Fair Grounds plant is nearing completion, and when turned over by the contractors will be one of the finest racing courses in the country. The track Itself is finished and in another month should develop more speed than it ever had. The Jefferson Park plant is practically ready for the meeting whieli opens "there Thanksgiving day. Hundreds of thoroughbreds arc on the scene, and with tjie closing of the New York season last Saturday and with the end of Kentucky racing only a few days distant, the local colony will be greatly augmented within the next ten days or so.
