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NEW ORLEANS OWNERS MECCA Turfmens Eyes Turned Toward Crescent City With Arrival of Cold Weather in North. NEW. ORLEANS, La., Nov. 12. With the scheduled arrival of approximately 300 head of horses early Monday, Jefferson Park and the Fair Grounds are expected to take on much color in preparation for the winter season, opening at the Shrewsbury course Thanksgiving Day. According to word received Saturday from Kentucky, there is more or less a hurried effort on the part of horsemen that will campaign their charges here during the winter months to escape the severe cold now prevailing at the picturesque Kentucky racing grounds. Prominent among the stables that are headed for the Crescent City is the extensive C. V. Whitney-M. Goldblatt string. At the Fair Grounds, where the horses of this ownership are to be quartered in a private barn, arrangements for them were completed by Frank Kelly, track superintendent of that course. Saturday marked the arrival of the Mrs. E. Denemark horses. Trainer Watts brought a carload and included among the list are some rather capable performers that showed to fine advantage during the past season in the Chicago district. Training activities at Jefferson Park took on much activity Saturday morning. The track, extremely hard and fast, in all probability will be flooded a bit prior to the opening of the season in order to insure the training of horses that may be bothered with weak underpinning. Announcement has been made by R. S. Eddy, Jr., general manager of the Jefferson Park course, that the racing secretarys office will open Monday for the registration of horses and it is planned that badges will be ready for issuance following the arrival of stewards Bradley and Ireland. Applications for stable accommodations continue to reach manager Eddy. The task of finding quarters for the numerous applicants was difficult, for, with no racing in the United States, Cuba or Mexico until the latter part of December, the number of stables coming to the local tracks is regarded the largest in the history of winter racing. The stables that are to come here following the close of the Maryland season at Bowie is expected to prove unusually large. Among them probably will be some of the best material that may be found in competition during the meeting. Quarters have been reserved for a division of the Audley Farm Stable, John Marsch, J. Goff, S. W. Labrot, W. L. Brodie and numerous others.
