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JEFFERSON PARK MEETING ! Now on Its Way and Living Up to Every Prediction. i Owners from Far West Have the Pick of Juveniles at the Fair Grounds. NEAV ORLEANS, Lit.. November 29. Living up to every prediction made for it. Jefferson Parks race meeting, now three days old. is proving the best in the brief history of that course. Starting off with a muddy track prevailing, the best opening day crowd since racing was inaugurated at the Shrewsbury track turned out, and there are enough regular nice followers on hand to keep the daily attendance ahead of former years. Incidentally the vast improvement? made at Jefferson Iark during the summer mouths proved their worth right off the reel this autumn in draining the track following the heavy rain the day before the opening. AAith the long racing season now under way it will get better as it goes along if history repeats itself, and even now there are belated arrivals daily from the north and east, chiefly those who remained for the windup in Maryland. AAhile the main contingent of New Yorkers is already here, there still are many, turjites in the metropolisv-who, will head this way toward the fag end of - the year so-.as to be on hand for the Fair Grounds meeting. Practically all of the Kentucky turf fans who intend to spend the winter here are already on the scene and have got into action by now. Beginning tomorrow it will be possible to get a real line on the ability of the coming two-year-olds inartered here, as James Osborne,, assistant to starter A. B. Dade, will commence schooling the. youngsters at the harrier at the Fair Grounds. .Post habit-count for a whole lot when the juveniles are asked to go only three-eighths of a mile, as quick breakers win a lot of races as a rule the first part of the year. Summing things up in general, the close-student of thoroughbreds has a good chance to note the merits of the young horses when they are sent to the startiug gate, and it soon can be told whether they are of the caliber their owners and trainers claim that they are or not. It begins to look as though the owners from the f-i- west are going to have a lot to say in the decision of the two-year-old races during the early part of the Fair Grounds season, as the latest addition to their ranks, "the stnble of Edward Cebrian witli fifteen coming two-year-olds in it, greatly increases their winning chances. Trainer Hal Kartell brought fifteen promising looking "babies" from his employers farm in California, and all are the progeny of that good stallion Aon Tromp. According to Farrell they have all shown something in the way of fast trials before being shipped and they have come in for a lot of admiration from veteran horsemen since their arrival here. Trainer C. AV. Carroll was no time in disposing of what he considered the star of the A. B. Sprek-els youngsters, a chestnut colt by Runnymeile--Handsome Flora, which was purchased along with two other yearlings by George Peterson. The colt in question was a much sought one. and several other owners had asked a price on him before he was sold to Peterson. His new owner expects him to be the champion of the winter here. CLANCYS POWERFUL STABLE. Although not as large in numbers as many stables here, AA". C. Clancy, former trainer for the noted racing firm of Corrigan and McKinney, has oiie that will be heard from. Included in his string are Pickwick. Paddy Dear, Ting-a-Ling. Royal Ensign. Hip Hip Hooray. Minute Man and Assume, lie is training the latter for Johnny Leonard, formerly well known in fistic circles because of his managerial connections. The Clancy horses have had a successful summer in New York, Pickwick lxing a stake winner, and they are all as fit as hands can make them now after their layoff since the New York season closed. Royal Ensign was turned out during the warm months after doing stud service in Kentucky and proving barren, but she seems ready to run one of her best races right now. She will be. bred again next spring to E. II. Rradleys North Star III. Andy Rlakeley has fourteen horses under his care here and they are the property of four different owners C. II. Emerson. R. H. McCarter Potter. John R. McKee and himself. This stable promises to be heard from ofteji during the Winter, as Rlakeley is a good cohdifloiicr of horses and he: lias soiik. fair thoroughbreds to work "02. Jockey H. Myers, a good apprentice rider under contract to AA. R. Coe, will pilot the Rlakeley horses at both tracks here. Trainer R. N. Dick Aestal lias only two horses here other than the yearlings he is handling for !. L. RIackford and Dr. I. E. Clark. They arc Ino- meal, owned by RIackford. and Richard A., wlik-h is the property of Dr. Clark. Aestal will race them both at Jefferson Park, but he expects to play a prominent part in the racing at the Fair Grounds when his big baud of Texas-bred yearlings get into action. Former Jockey Roy AValdron. who was forced to forsake the saddle several years back because of In - creasing weight, is now one of the assistant trainers in the .1. AV. McClelland stable. He came down with a dvision of this establishment that trainer j. Kim Patterson brought here. AAaldron has had plenty of experience around thoroughbred horses, as i he was practically raised with them, and the further knowledge that he gained in the saddle should prove valuable to him in his present capacity. a 1 NASH TURNER HAS SMALL STABLE. The other ex-jockeys who have turned owners s and trainers here are Grover "Rubbles" AAarren and 1 Nash Turner. The latter is well remembered by the old guard of racegoers, and he was at one time 1 a leading light among American pigskin artists. , AVarren quit riding only last summer after finding I it impossible to keep down to a decent weight for r his profession. He 1ms inly one horse at present Summer Sigh which he obtained from R. L. Rres- ler, the last employer for whom ho rode. Turner has three horses in his outfit Pauaman. The Boy and End Man. This: is a likely trio, and the old-Z time rider expects to grab off many races with them this winter. II J.. W. Schorr has four horses stabled it t Jef. o ferson Park Lady in Black, Napthalius. Milda and g Lukes Pet. The rest of his outfit, including seven yearlings, is at the Fair Grounds, and all are e under the care of trainer Louis Tauber. Lady in a Black is a recent purchase from the Pastime Stable, s ami she i a richly-bred filly in addition to being g a really fast-one.--- It-. is said that "Pop" bus souu d good yearlings this year, and he expects his stable to regain some of the prestige it had when he . s 1 1 - J Continued on second page. JEFFERSON PARK MEETING Continued from first page. owned Cudgel, Ed Crump, Luke McLuke and other good ones. R. L. Baker, former manager of the Lexington track of the Kentucky Jockey Club, has two horses here. MeAdoo and General Ryng, and they are in the stables of different trainers. Freddie Staton brought MeAdoo down, while L. Calm has General Byng. MeAdoo at one time was a rather useful horse, but in Ids last few races in Kentucky he did not seem to be at all himself. General Byngs reputation remains to he made. Catania, formerly owned by Gallaher Brothers, and which was bred by them, will race here this coming winter in the colors of John Gruber of Louisville. The two-year-old daughter of Rock-view Mary Talbott was brought here by Wayne Lewis. She showed to goPd advantage last spring in Kentucky, but failed to win this fall. Other ex-Gallaher horses here are Nobleman in the stable of C. E. Lennhan and Keep and .didia, which were purchased by H. Neusteter after the close of the Kentucky racing season. Keep was n winner the last day of the recent Churchill Downs meeting, and she ran like a high-class filly. She won over the mile route ill muddy going, but she can hold her own on a dry track as well. Mistress Polly, which changed hands twice during the Louisville meeting last fall, and -which wound up the property of T. II. Greenbaum, is being trained by Clyde Phillips. Sin; was the medium of some fast sales in the Blue Grass State,. John Whitlow purchasing her from II. Neusteter and selling her after she had won the only race in which she started in his interest. She is a right handy racing tool, as she seldom leaves a race track without winning at least one race at the meeting. Tippo Sahib, one of the most consistent horses in Kentucky last spring and fall, and which figured in the only dead heat on the Blue Grass racing circuit during the autumn season Refralo being on ihe other end of it is in the stable of Ed Trotter here. He is owned by J. T. West, and has been going along in good style since, his arrival. Trotter, .also has the six horses of Kirlr Harrington, wlliclr fomf erly were trained by II, Perkins, and lie has quite a few of his own to look after. A few of the best ones under his care are George Starr, Troilus, West-wood. A. N Akin and Kewpie ONeill. Westwood, for which Harrington paid 2,500 last spring at Hot Springs. lias been on the shelf for some time, but he will be ready to put forth his best efforts lieres He is- still a maiden, the closest -he. capm to winning, a rnce being in. the Bashford Manor Stakes at Louisville last spring. wlien Sam Freed-man beat him by a margin of inches. Many of the jockeys here who went to Lexington following the close at Louisville to work"yeaTlings before they went into winter quarters report that there will be more good youngsters in- Kentucky next spring than ever. Quite a few of thp riders were called to the farms of their- various employers to perform this task before being -allowed to depart for tins city, while others gavr the juveniles their final trials over the Kentucky Association course at Lexington. - Jockey Lawrence Lyke was delayed getting here on this account, as lie went . to the Idle Hour Farm, ownpd by E.R-. Bradley,- his employer, to put. the finishing touches on the work of the yearlings. Roth Lyke and jockey Simpson Boyle will ride here for Mr. Bradley this coming winter. As has been his custom for several years the master of Idle Hour Farm will stop -off hen: on - hi." way -tif; "his winter home at Palm Beach, Fin., and take in several weeks racing. He is expected December 2.
