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FAIR GROUNDS BIG PRIZES Three ,000 Stakes, Fourteen oi ,000 and No Purse of Less Value Than ,000. NEW ORLEANS, La., Oct. 4. Announcement has been made by officials of the Business Men3 Racing Association that the purse distribution at the Fair Grounds winter meeting beginning January 1, 1924, will be the largest in the history of the famous old track. Three big stakes, each of which will havo an added value of ?5,000, will be decided during the course of the meeting. These feature events are the New Years Handicap, the Crescent City Handicap and the Mardi Cras Handicap. John Dymond, Jr., president of the association, has made it known that in addition to the three major stakes, there will be run fourteen other contests, each with an added value of ,000. Through him it was also learned that the association would probably frame several stake races for two-year-olds if juveniles of sufficient merit are shipped to the New Orleans track. There will be seven races daily. Six of theso contests will have ?1.00D purses and the feature each day will have a value of ?1,200.
