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SAILORS CHANCE TO REDEEM HIMSELF NEW ORLEANS. La., November 24. After proving au utter failure in the north and east ail year. Sailor. J. W. McClellands tJiroe-yenr-old son of All Gold Boisterous, will have an opportunity of winning himself out for his owner here during the winter. It was at Jefferson Park and the Fair Grounds last year that this horse established a reputation that caused McClelland to purchase him at Hot Springs, and so well did he think of him in the early spring that he sent him to the post in the Kentucky Derby. He finished seventh in that event, while Eternal, his stableiuate, landed in tenth place. Sailors race was not a bad orie by any means, as he left tiie barrier last and was last In the run dovvn the haekstroteh, only to finish witii a grirnL rush. . Instead of improving after that race he seemed to get worse when sent east and never did pay his way. He is the only horse older than two years that trainer Kim Patterson brought here, four of the others being two-year-olds, and the other twelve ycatliags,
