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WINTER RACING SEASON OPENS TODAY . ur- ,,o a Perfect Stage Setting at. Jefferson Park for Inauguration of Sport , ,: - i New Orleans to Have Ninety Five Days of Continuous Racing More and Better Quality of Horses Available for Crescent City Sport Await the Bugle Call NEW ORLEANS, La., Nov. 26. With a perfect stage setting for the 1921-1925 winter season of racing Jefferson Park will usher in Thursday what promises to be a banner period of sport in the Crescent City. It will be continuous until March 17. In all there are scheduled ninety-live days of racing, forty-eight at Jefferson Park and forty-seven at the Fair Grounds. An altogether different atmosphere seems to prevail. In a way it is a reminder of 1914, when the sport was resumed here after a lengthy absence in these parts because of the Locke law. Interest in the resumption was then feverish and this year finds the racing devotees of old reinforced by hundreds of converts just as eager for the sound of the buglers notes calling the starters to the post for the initial dash that will open the sport formally. . - In a measure the racing this winter is a departure from the old. New management is Jin charge of the Jefferson track. The Fair Grounds also has had injected into its destinies a new personnel. It has been advantageous to both tracks. Unaer general manager Robert S. Eddy Jr.s able guidance the Jefferson tracK is already reflecting many improvements. The track, the grounds ana grandstand have been transformed and owners and trainers, as well as visitors of yore, have been greatly impressed with the altered conditions of the plant. It is now in a modern state and with the constant improvements that will be instituted before long the Shrewsbury track win not be far behind tne Dest equipped m the country. In one thing tae Jeuerson track excels every other course and that is in its racing strip. No better adapted soil for winter racing purposes can be found anywhere. It is not conducive to record-breaking performances, but ideal from a trainers point of view. It will be particularly favorable to horses with suspicious underpinning and its general uniformity will result in more form-lul racing. Nothing that could add to the comfort of the patrons has been overlooked by manager Eddy and his associates to assist in making the opening and the entire period of racing auspicious. LIBERAL PURSE OFFERING. The liberal policy of the Jefferson Park management in the matter of purse offerings has assisted in bringing here a better class of horses than formerly raced in the winter. The slogan that owners "can no longer afford to lay up their horses in winter" seems to be well founded. The rich winter offerings exceed in instances many of the offerings of noted summer courses. The New Orleans Handicap of 425,000 added and the Louisiana Derby with its 7,5t0 in added money and a number of ,000 added offerings and continuous array of ,500 and ,000 purses in the daily cards are sufficient inducements for the best in the country to contest for.. The hue and cry against the starting of a good horse in winter months is also gradually subsiding. Black Gold and Omar Khayyam, both Kentucky Derby winners that wintered and raced here, dispoved the harmful effects that might result of their racing and training on winter tracks. Numerous crack two-year-olds have gone from New Orleans and other winter tracks and triumphed decisively over pampered champions. Judges Hay and Ireland, constituting the license committee, had a mass of applications for trainers and jockeys licenses to pass upon and did not complete the work until late today. With only a few exceptions all were granted licenses. Judging by the list there will be more trainers and jockeys here this winter than during any previous year. A G. Blakely will be ccpiipped with riding talent during the winter. He has four jockeys that he can call upon. They are George Cqoper, R. Mozer, L. Simon and G. Babin. The latter is the only one not now on the grounds, and he will be here after the close of the Bowie meeting. CHILHOWEE AT FAIR GROUNDS. R. T. Watts is a recent arrival at the Fair Grounds with the crack three-year-old. Chilhowee, which S. A. Newman, New York attorney and new recruit to racing, recently purchased from Gallaher Brotheis. Chilhowee is the holder of two American records, and will be a distinct addition to the list of handicap horses to be raced here this winter. In addition to Chilhowee, trainer Watts has the horses Seths Treasure, Red Seth. Uncle Jay, Star Girl and flvo yearlings.- Gar and two Continued on twelfth page, NEW ORLEANS OPENS Continued from first page. of the yearlings are the property of Mr. T. C. Bradley, manager of the Lexington track. A number of ambitious young riders are to le seen in the saddle at the Jefferson Park meeting. C S. Wilson has a most promising youngster in the person of L. Lee, a 17-year-old boy, who started his saddle career at Aurora and later rode at Columbus, where he rode his first winner. Tom Carroll also is said to possess a coming riding star in II. Herbert, a Xew Orleans boy, who entered upon his chesen vocation during the fall seasons in Xew York. Herbert, during the short period he has been riding, is also credited with a winner. His employer believes the lad has the making of a read good rider. Former jockey Eddie Dugan is sponsorlns jockeys D. Jones and C. Frost and will make their engagements at both local meetings. Jones is well known to Xew Orleans and Kentucky patrons, having been riding for a number of years. Frost, on the other hand, is a new beginner. He got his first saddle experience at the last meetings at Columbus and Akron, Ohio. Tommy Carroll has only a small stable to campaign this winter. The establishment includes David Harum, the two-year-old maiden. John S. Mosby, and a couple of yearlings. One of the latter is by Jim Gaffney and the other by Wrack. They will both be raced in the Carroll colors after the first of the year. Stables, some of them of national reputation, continue to arrive from all points of the compass for the forthcoming meeting, and it is becoming evident that Xew Orleans this winter is attracting a better grade of horses than for a good many years. The arrival of the big special horse train Monday night caused quite a stir at the Fair Grounds, where the horses were unloaded. The train, due to a wreck on the road, was seven hours late and did not pull into the local railroad yards until 7 oclock. The shipment included the stables of E R Bradley, Will Perkins. Mote Goldblatt. W. M. Cain, R. L. Baker, I. Weil, Frederick Johnson and a number of smaller establishments. Del-san, in the stable of Will Perkins, was the only ailing thoroughbred to reach here. He arrived suffering with shipping fever. The R. L. Baker consignment, which came in charge of George Arvin, included Mammon, Muldraugh, Perplexity, Fair Orient, Muskeg and a couple of two-year-old fillies. Jockey L. Steinhart, who sustained injuries at the Latonia spring meeting, will be seen in the saddle at the Jefferson Park meeting, being under contract to Mose Goldblatt. Jockey E. Kummer will ride this winter for Jack McPherson. The boy was idle during the latter part of the Kentucky fall season due to illness. Dick Arestal has arrived at the Fair Grounds with three well-bred yearlings that he purchased in Kentucky. Andy Blakely reported that the two-year-old Stampdale, which was taken sick after being shipped from Maryland to Churchill Downs, has fully recovered, and is being galloped daily. J. H. Xicholson is a recent arri-al from Baltimore with the horses Rock and Bye and Search Light ni.
