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SEVEN RACES D aTLVTJ feWE R" Program Eook for First "Weeks Racing Issued Horses Arriving in Large Numbers. NEW ORLEANS, La., November 3. The distribution of the first weeks program book for Jefferson Barks 1919 winter race meeting, which opens Thanksgiving day, and the daily arrival of thoroughbreds for the long winter campaign here, begins to give the local racing plants a busy aspect. The program book provides for seven races a day, witli a total purse distribution for inaugural day of ,700 and ,S00 per day for the rest of the week. The Thanksgiving Day Handicap will be worth ,500 and will be for all ages at one mile. The Jefferson Park track has practically been rebuilt, and fair weather seems all that is needed to see a new set of track records all through. The Thanksgiving Day Handicap will be wprth ,100 to the winner. 50 to the second horse and 50 to the third. The opening day program will have as an added attraction a condition race for splinters, all ages, at five and a half furlongs. More than two hundred thoroughbreds already are quartered at Jefferson Park, with nearly that many more at the Fair Grounds. They are arriving on every train from the east and west. Nash Turner arrived today with End Man, The Boy and Fana-man; L. F. Wagner, with Osgood and four others, was another arrival. Two more carloads are expected in tomorrow. Every inducement will be given the owners and trainers to run good horses at Jefferson Park. There will be purses and handicaps for the best of them daily. The daily handicap of 00 is calculated to prompt the owners to start right in without waiting for the bigger purses at the Fair Grounds. The races will start at 2, p. m. daily.
