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JEFFERSON PARK OPENING TwentyEight Days Meeting Be ¬ gins at Shrewsbury Today More Than a Thousand Horses Available Availablefor for the Racing Much Interest In InLonlsana Lonlsana Derby NEW ORLEANS La February 13 Jef ¬ ferson Parks second spring race meeting will be inaugurated tomorrow at the Shrewsbury course The meeting will run through to March 17 including twentyeight racing days and will be ushered out with the run ¬ ning of the 10000 Louisiana Derby Horse ¬ men arid turf followers are elated with the prospect of a Jefferson Park spring meeting The weather down here this winter has been so balmy that disappointment is always ex ¬ pressed when the racing colony has to break up early in February FebruaryThe The Business Mens Racing Associations meeting which terminated today extended over a period of only thirtyeight racing days this year and that would have meant an early closing for the New Orleans racing racingThe The Jefferson Park management announces it will conduct an annual spring meeting but that next year such a meeting will only be of fourteen days as it never is intended to race beyond March 17 17The The Fair Grounds meeting will extend to March 4 in 1924 1924More More than a thousand thoroughbreds will be held here for the Jefferson Park meeting Five hundred of them are already quartered at the uptown course There will be only six races a day the management having decided not to extend the program beyond that number The horses in the first race will go to the post at 2 15 oclock Most of the big stables have expressed the intention of remaining over S N Holman says Best Pal Boy from Home and others in his string will be as busy at Jefferson Park as they have been at the Fair Grounds GroundsThe The running of the Louisiana Derby is being looked forward to with interest even though it is admitted that the threeyearold here this winter at best are ordinary T W OBriens Shamrock E R Bradleys Blue Nose and G R Allens Calcutta look like the best of them with Setting Sun Prince of Umbria and a few others to be considered consideredC C W Hay of Kentucky whose work in the judges stand at the Fair Grounds has at ¬ tracted attention has been named to serve at Jefferson Park in place of Joseph A Murphy during the few days Judge Murphy will be in Chicago ChicagoGeneral General manager Anthony Rouprich has put the Jefferson Park couse in the best possible condition and a splendid opening is looked forward to
