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RACING "AT MW ORLEANS 3 Greatest Season of Winter Sport to Begin Thanksgiving. Jefferson Park Ready for Opening Day Oyer 1,000 Horses Available. NEW ORLEANS, La., November 20. Winter racing for the season of 1920-1921 will be inaugurated here next Thursday, and continue to March 17, 192L The first meeting will be -held at Jefferson Park, from November 25 lo" December 31, then the Fair Grounds will open on January 1 and racing will be conducted there to February 8. The wind-up will be at Jefferson Park, the final meeting running from February 9 to March 17. Preparations are practically completed for the inauguration of the snort at Jefferson Park on Thanksgiving Day. Even despite" desertions to Havana and Tijuana, there are nearly as many horses here as there were last year; in fact, more than are necessary. The Kentucky delegation is already here and every day brings additional arrivals from Maryland. However, not until the Bowie meeting is over will the final shipment come from that state. Jefferson Park appears to better advantage than it did last year, improvements during the summer mouths, adding favorably to its general appearance and horsemen are loud in their praise of the changes. The track is in much better condition than last spring and should be fast by opening day, if no more rain falls Racing secretary J. B. Campbell expects to have a "fine "program" for" Thanksgiving Day, and as the ; majority of- the horses here are in racing condition, will find no trouble filling his cards Joseph A. Murphy, J..H. Monck and H. P. Conk-ling will be the stewards of the meeting, while Ed Tribe will do the starting as soon as Bowie closes, James Osborne acting in his place for the first few days. G. D. Bryan, Jr., secretary-treasurer and moving spirit of the Jefferson Park race track, arrived this morning from Baltimore, and he brought with him the news that Judge J. F. Monck, well-known Canadian racing official aud former jurist in his home city of Hamilton, Ontario, will be the third man in the stewards stand at the coming Shrewsbury meeting with Joseph A. Murphy and Herman P. Conkling. Judge Monck is due to get in Tuesday and it is expected that the other two stewards will arrive about the same time. Messrs. Murphy and Conkling will leave Baltimore tomorrow. Mr. Bryan is optimistic concerning the coming Jefferson Park meeting, and in his opinion it will be the best ever held nt that course. "With the exception of a few eastern owners who are going into winter quarters at the wind-up of the Bowie meeting, practically all of the stables now racing at Bowie will ship to New Orleans," said Mr. Bryan, "and we are in a quandary as to how to provide stalls for all of them. More horses of the higher grade will be here than ever- before and if tlio -weather will only, hold up like it" is now, New Orleans racegoers will be- treated to some grand sport." While the Jefferson Park management is struggling along with the stalling situation, a worse state of affairs exists at the Fair Grounds, STALLS AT A PREMIUM. At the latter park there are 1,164 stalls and the applications for them already total three hundred more than are available. Each- day finds additions to the list of requests for stable room, and it looks as though many of the racing establishments will have to take quarters for the entire -winter ; at -one track or the other , instead of moving with the meetings as in former" years. The ideal weather of the past few days continued today, and the two race tracks were fairly alive with horses. Following the end of the training period at the Fair Grounds; a huge - scraper was placed on the course, digging it up to a considerable depth. When the dirt resettles it Is expected that the course will be faster thah ever. Arrivals of horses included those of R. Field. A. W. Jackson and B. A.- Smith. Fields racers were in charge of Trainer Charles Hawk, and : among the nine-in the outfit Were two iyenrlings. There were sir yearlings in Smiths consignment. John M.- Goode will send six horses here, according to advices received yesterday, -and among them will be Sands of Pleasure and Wadsworths Last, two thoroughbreds which raced with much success here last year. Additions to the riding colony include jockeys W. Obert, H. J. Burke, F. Murphy, F. Smith and J. Gruber. William Farnum, the noted moving picture actor, will race a large stable of horses here this winter, in charge of trainer W. H. Fizer. The Farnum horses will be sent down at the conclusion of the Bowie meeting." A party of Kentucky horsemen sailed from here for Havana this morning. Among them were Mr. and Mrs. Michael Quinn, Mr. and Mrs. Victor Arm, William Krels, Lucine Hoffman, A. Melcher, Al Weinberg. John Moller and JJ Moran. Lloyd Gentry came n tonight from Lexington, Ky, his horses having been here for several days. Arrangements have again .beeu completed whereby the Illinois Central Railroad will run two special trains daily to the Jefferson Park track. This city is .rapidly filling with turf enthusiasts from all parts of the country and the hotel and rooming houses report more reservations for the winter season than ever before. Most of these on hand now are from New York and Kentucky, where the seasons have ended, but the Maryland crowd will begin to come in during the coming week. The first race at Jefferson Park will be called to the post at 2 oclock each day and this will enable the patrons to get back to the city before darkness sets in.
