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JUDGE NELSON ON HAND Noted Canadian Racing Official Arrives at New Orleans. r - Big Delegations Get In From New York and Kentucky.. . .... Latest Gossip. NEW ORLEANS, La., November 24. Judge. Francis J. Nelson, who will make his debut as a racing official in this city at Jefferson Park on Thanksgiving Day, was an arrival today from his home in Toronto. Within a few hours .after he got here the judge was at his desk at the race track looking over applications for trainers and jockeys licenses, of which there are more than ever. With the arrival of Judge Joseph A. Murphy, who is due Wednesday from Bowie, the official family will be. coniplte at, the .opening,. oC-jthe, meeting, excepting starter Edward -Triber- - There was plenty of activity at Jefferson Park today with owners and trainers registering their horses and applying, for licenses, and numerous horses being given gallops. At the Fair Grounds there were likewise many horses out, with the coming two-year-olds in the majority, Both tracks again were fast, and good moves were the order of the day. Horsemen and followers of racing.came; in- vast numbers today from every direction. " The New-York delegation again was a large one and in it was James W. McClelland, who has a big stable pf horses here in charge of trainer Kim Patterson, Frank Bray, Frank J. Ortell, J. Smith and Maurice Bernard, formerly assistant trainer of the A. K. Macomber horses. Bernard said that there will be between twenty-six and thirty -thoroughbreds in the Macomber consignment whicli will be sent to France on December 3, including the. two good stallions Hol-Iister and War Cloud. Most of the others will be brood mares and weanlings. Liberty Loan,- a La-tonia Derby winner, will be sent to the Macomber place in California, where about forty mares will be kept, along with three other stallions; Bernard has one horse of his own to nice here, Tliunderbird, a two-year-old.. John W. Schorr and Eddie Delting came down from Memphis. Schorr has a larger stable now than he has raced in a long time, there being several yearlings in it, in addition to a few older horses. JOCKEY COLONY EHEABGED. " Jockeys James Butwell and J. Dreyer got in from Bowie. Butwell will ride, for the stable of L. J. Reinlieimcr here, while Dreyer will ride as a free lance. Jockeys II. Myers, T. Davies, J. Pierce, J. Rodriguez, A. Riehcreck and H. Thurber. are scheduled to leave Bowie for liere today. Among the well-known regulars who got in during the day were Henry Hendricks, M. Raphael, Ben Hollender, B. Bernstein and Euclid Allard. Terry Farley, who is custodian of the jockeys rooms on the eastern tracks, and who will serve in a similar capacity at both of the local plants, was also among the days arrivals. A special train of six carloads of race horses is scheduled Jo leave Bowie, tonight with this city for its destination. " According to persons who left -Baltimore Saturday, another special will be rur after the close of the meeting. Trainer II. Farrell, who will handle the Edward Cebrian two-year-olds here, came in from California this morning, and the horses got in tonight-There were fifteen yearlings and two two-year-olds in the consignment. All of the yearlings are the progeny of Yon Tromp and are sons and daughters of some of Mr. Cebrians best mares. George Peterson purchased three of the A. B. Spreckels yearlings from trainer C. W. Carroll. They are a chestnut colt by Runnymede Handsome Flora, a chestnut colt by Runnymede Flash of Night and a bay colt by Voorhecs Emir brother to Hocnir. The first-named colt was considered by trainer Carroll as the best in the Spreckels establishment. Two of It. kE. Watkins horses were taken ill on the road down " from Baltimore. Truly Rural, II. P. Whitneys good two-year-old, is said to have developed a serious case of car fever also. John 15; McKee, who brought the horses owned by the late G. J. Lonstorf, came down from Cincinnati this morning. He will race them here. Jockey II. Hamilton. who is riding with much success in the east,-1 will so to Califoriha at the close of the Bowie meeting and spend the winter at Wickiup Ranch, which is owned by T. II. Rosse-ter, his contract employer. George Peterson is trying to arrange for the services of jockey Albert Johnson, also under "contract to Rosseter, for the Winter here. " " Starter Edward Tribe will be the only member of the regular official family missing at Jefferson Park on the opening day, nest Thursday. It has been announced that judge Joseph A. Murphy will leave Bowie in time to reacli here Wednesday. James Osborne, who will act in place of starter Continued on second pose. vl JUDGE NELSON, ON HAND Continued from first page. Tribe for the first three days of the meeting, put up a starting gate and began schooling horses at it" today. Nest Monday he will begiu this task ; of "schooling the "coining two-year-olds at the Fair Grounds. W. E. Phillips, patrol judge on the Kentucky Jockey Clubs tracks, stopped off hero Saturday en route to IIrtvahi. The news of the sudden death" in Cincinnati of Barney Schrcibcr caused profound regret among the horsemen and turf followers assembled here for the winter. He had been a regular attendant here each winter and was planning to come here again when stricken. Many hicssifges of mdllandnec, weroV sent from .here to his widow. -. J. Nv Huffman has brought Mary II. and one yearling from Louisville. He said that the Winter colony -.at the two Louisville tracks is larger than ever. ;. . " " ; Top Coat, T. M. Botts good sprinter, which was thought to have about recovered froin his "recent spell of car fever, lias suffered a relapse; it is said, and his condition is again serious. His temperature has again ascended to a dangerous figure, but .trainer Danny Miller is hopeful that he can pull him through. 0: At- Biaiichi! angling, for "the--! services of jockey J. Metabc here this winter! MeCnbc Is at present ,vHh the Frank Weir stable in the east, but it. is said that lie has announce!! his intention of riding here during the cold months. The saloipf yearlings has begun here; Trainer C. Ww Carroll , has. disposed of three of the A. B., Spreckels youngsters, and it is said tltat they .brought a price that runs into, five figures.
