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,000 NEW YEAR HANDICAP Chief Attraction for Opening Day at the Fair Grounds. : Louisiana Derby of ,000 Added to Be Run at Jefferson Park. BY J. L. DEMPSEY. XEW ORLEANS, La., December 20. Willi the approach if the Christmas Iioliila.vs will undoubtedly cmne t lie best part of the Jefferson Park racing, and when that meeting ends on Deccmlier 31 the Fair Grounds will inaugurate its season of the sport, which will last for forty-one days. On Christinas day at Jefferson Park the SI, .100 added Cliristmas Handicap for all ages at one and one-sixteenth miles will lie decided, then will come a series of overnight handicaps daily, and on the opening day at the Fair Grounds will come the New Years Han-dican, ,00; added. The latter is a new stake, and is one of four of its kind which will he offered liy the ISusinoss Mens Racing Association this winter.- They will range i:i distance from one and one-sixteenth to two miles. Due to the good weather and fast track which has prevailed most of the time since the "Jefferson Park meeting opened, racing secretary J. 11. Campbell lias -been enabled to get quite a few of the good horses cut with frequency, but there are still any number of them waiting for the Fair Grounds season to open. Most of them will be pointed for the big stakes at that track, but secretary Campbell is hopeful that some of the mere important ones will contest in the Christmas Handicap. For the irst time jiu years the coming three-year-olds, many of which Will no doubt be nominated for the Kentucky Derby and other stakes next spring, will have a chance to show their real worth before they leave here, and the Louisiana Derby will be tin? means of affording them this opitortunity. This race, which will have its inaugural running r.t the spring meeting at Jefferson Park, will have an added value of ,000, and by the time of its decision the new three-year-olds will have ample training Jo be able to go over the route of one and one-eighth miles, which will be its distance. While limit? of the real topnotchers in the two-year-old division in the north and east during 1919 is here at present, most of them being in M-intor quarters, there are any number of them on hand that were frequent winners in Kentucky, New York and Maryland, and they naturally have a good chance to improve. It is almost a certainty that some Derby material will crop out with the large number of coining three-year-olds to draw from, and the training that they will receive in preparation for the Ixiuisiaua Derby will be of considerable benefit to them later on in the Kentucky Derby. Tom Shaw, one of the largest and best known "odds brokers" of the present day, is a recent arrival from Chicago, where he spent a vacation following the close of the New York racing season. Quito a few more operators from the east are expected shortly, many of them waiting for the Fair Grounds meeting before cutting in. Tin? Knelielknmp and Ilowerton-O. P.. Potts combination is cutting quite? a figure in the racing at Jefferson Park, five horses from these two stables, which are under the care of trainer George Arvin, having been returned winners the first part of Hit? meeting. They are Iluinmn. Bread Man, Diamond iirl, Sweet Liberty and Taenia. The latter had the distinction of setting a new track record for five and one-half furlongs, l:05-,f and this was the first new mark made here that compares with tlie best time for" the distance at many of the northern and eastern tracks. Dread Man. a two-year-old son of Golden Maxim Evelyn Doris, gives promise of developing into a fairly good three-year-old. and he is a colt that evidently will fancy a long distance of ground, as he leaves the barrier slowly " anil invariably comes from behind with a rush through the stretch. REGISTERING THE TWO - YEAR -OXDS. Racing secretary Joe McLennan will begin the task of registering the coming two-year-olds at the Fair Grounds next week, and he said that he has worked in his official capacity at many race meetings in various parts of the country in the spring, summer anil autumn where there were not near as many youngsters available for racing as are at the Int:al track. Practically every prominent thoroughbred sin in this country is represented, and there lire quiti? a few foreign-bred juveniles here also. So well have the "babies" advanced in their training that a hundred or more of them are now biing sent, away from the barrier by springing the tape on them, and each day finds new additions to this list. Starter A. It. Dade, who was here ftir a few days before proceeding on a hunting and fishing trip, said that he is confident that by giving the coming two-year-olds a months schooling at the barrier niucti of the trouble experienced with them at the starting gate in past years will be eliminated, anil as a result the raees will develop into more true run affairs. He suggested this plan to the Kentucky Jockey Club last spring, and several of the leading lights in that organization have indorsed it to be put in effect next spring. One of the most consistent sprinters here this winter is The liov, former jockey Nash Turners three-year-old Celt Sand Dune colt. Three-quarters of a milt? seems to be just about his limit, but he has abundant speed as far as he goes, and lie won three consecutive races at this distance. In one of them he equaled tin? track record of 1:14. and then came back the next day and reduced it to 1:13 . Panainan, another i:i Turners small stable, has not shown to good advantage here as yet, and lie ims hail several chances at that. Locally owned horses are not playing as prominent a part in the racing here this year as formerly, and their victories have been few and far between. Astraea, Thursday NIghter, Speedster. Paul Connelly nud Merry Lass Jiavt; won-for their New Orleans owners, but last winter hardly a day passetl but what a Crescent City horse took down a purse. James Arthur lias a quite useful stable of thirteen horses here and they are the property of himself. JIart Dirnham. J. P. Mayberry. T. Francis, 11. J. MeCormlck and G. K. Webb. The list is composed of llondage, Charlie Leydecker. Le Bleuot, Little Maudie, Margery. Gain de Cause. Coiiiacho, Kingling II.. Onico, Enrico Caruso, l!lue Devil, Huzzas and Satana. Bondage and Charlie Leydecker are the best of the band and they are being rested up for the Fair Grounds meeting after a hard campaign in the east. Bondage will be nominated for tin? four long route stakes at the old track. Jock- Continued ou second page. ,000 NEW YEAR HANDICAP. Continued from first page. eys J. Rodriguez and A. Riehereek are the Arthur stable riders. Trainer A. II. Vlvell has five horses here belonging to M. F. Mount, and included in the quintet is Franklin, which lias many victories to his credit. The others are Etruscan. Douglass S., Arbitrator and Classtoi. The Mount racers were also kept hard at it in Maryland and they have not been seen in action much here to date. Former jockey "Heine" Caranaugh lias graduated into a full-fledged trainer. He brought Sands of Pleasure and Wadsworths Last here for John M. Coodu of Lexington. Ivy., and in less than one week he won a race with both of them. Sands of Pleasure had not started in a race since October 13 previous to his coining here and his rest evidently helped him considerably. He set u new track record for one mile and seventy yards and in doing so lie defeated -a fair band of horses. Considering the few horses that it has started, the J. W. McClelland stable is doing right well here. Watersineet. Rory oMore and Sailor turned in victories for owner McClelland and he was es-ix;cially nleased when the latter won. It was his first win for his present owner, who had alKitit despaired of his ever turning the trick. Incidentally t was a long time between victories for Sailor, as he went from here In Hot Springs, tlienre to Kentucky, on to New York, then to .Maryland and back hero again since his previous winning race. Trainers Kim Patterson and Archie Zlmmer are caring for the McClelland horses here, Patterson having Sailor and tlie yearlings in charge.
