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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF There are now approximately .1,200 horses stabled at the two New Orleans trades. The horses of T. H. Murnan arrived at New Orleans yesterday in charge of W. Foley. A majority of the big feature races of the English turf were won by outsiders during the racing season of 1922. Lord Woolavington, the leading money-winning owner of the English turf in 1922, is a millionaire Scotch distiller. T. H. Cross, the Chicago turfman, has shipped six yearlings from his farm at Tay-lorville, 111., to New Orleans. They will be trained by A. G. Blakely. Admission prices to Oriental Park are: Grandstand inclosure, men, .50; women, .50. Grandstand private boxes, seating six; persons, .00. Field stand,. 50 cents. The schooling of yearlings is now under way at the Fair Grounds, New Orleans. There are said to be many promising youngsters being prepared for the early juvenile racing of 1923. Danny Jones, the young apprentice in the stable of W. F. Knebelkamp, at Jefferson Park, is a New Orleans boy, seventeen years of age and weighing only 85 pounds. He i3 said to be quite promising.
