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1 ; 1 1 ; NINETY-SEVEN RACING DAYS New Orleans Meeting 1o Be Run from Thanksgiving to St. Patricks Day. NEW ORLEANS, La.. November 8. Horsemen and tourists are beginning to arrive in New Orleans preparatory to the inauguration of the winter racing season, which .formally opens at Jefferson Park Thanksgiving Day, November 25. With crews of laborers working on both the Jefferson and Fair Grounds tracks, and the dally work-outs of the horses already quartered here, a racing atmosphere is already discernible. Although there has been no definite announcement made, it is generally understood here that New Orleans will have a run of ninety-seven days of racing. It was at first hinted that there would be no spring meeting at the Jefferson .Park track, but things have taken a sudden turn and it looks now as if there will be thirty-two days of racing at this track following the conclusion of activities at the Fair Grounds. Jefferson Park opens Thanksgiving Day and will continue until January 1, when the Fair Grounds will usher In its annual meeting.. The Fair Grounds will run for thirty-three days, ending February 8, Mardi Gras day, when the Jefferson Park meeting will be resumed until St. Patricks day, March 17. Purse offerings at both the local tracks will be the largest In the history of the sport here; No purse will be less than ," at Jef fersbn p5rk and there will he only two such races, a day., Four of the daily races will be of 00 each and the other race will be a daily overnight handicap valued at ,000. Last winter both racing associations fixed up their plants for the comfort Of horses and horsemen and both tracks now present some of the best barns to he found, anywhere. More and more horsemen each year are going "in for winter racing, it having been learned that winter racing does not spoil horses. On. the contrary, many thoroughbreds have gone .right from here and held their own on the. New Yoj k, Kentucky and Maryland tracks. Omar Khayyunvwerit right from here one year arid vbn the Kentucky Derby. Among the.best stables that are. coming heraU ibe that .of iL W. ClarkwTiose"gdlngPet5r won "two ,000 stakes here last winter. Ifctor will be With the string which trainer Barnes brings down, as will Captain Mac and Sway, both of .which" have raced exceptionally well this year.
