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BRADLEY IN NEW ORLEANS To Confer With Associates in Regard to Extensive Improvements at Fair Grounds. NEW ORLEANS, La.. April L— R, R Lradley, associated with EL C. Schleider and Colonel John P. .Sullivan in the ownership of the New Orleans Fair Crounds, was an arrival late this afternoon, accompanied by Larry Shannon, manager of the Idle Hour Stock Farm. They came from Palm Leach, Fla.. and will make- an indefinite stay. Mr. P.radleys visit at present is to go over plans with his associates in the Fair Crounds anil general manager James Murphy regarel-ing the extensive improvements to be made at the Fair Crounels plant before the opening of the racing next season. The new constructive work will embrace many features and include the enlargement of the grand stand, building of a new pad-elock and elaboration of the present magnificent club house. The racing strip will also come in for attention and particularly the drainage. Mr. Lradleys horses that were raced here this winter, including Bage nbaggage and Loot to Loot that finishe-d first and second in the Louisiana Derby, and are now coming in for considerable attention as pcdential fae-te rs in the Kentucky Derby, are still quartered at the Fair Crounds, in the private stable of their owner. While here Mr. Bradle-y will also give the contract for the- new stable that he has in mind V quarter his horses ne-xt year. The stable- is to be the finest in the country, regnrdlem of COOt, and will embrace every modern convenience, including coounodiooi quarters far his trainer and stable- employees. The Idle Hour Farm racers will be shipped to Lexington from here about April 15.
