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i ; . RECORD COLONY FOR NEW ORLEANS All Stables at Jefferson Park and Fair Grounds Will Be Filled Throughout Winter Months Shrewsbury-Inaugural Thanksgiving Day Many Arrivals NEW ORLEANS, La., Nov. 14. With the opening here of the winter racing season only ten days off, todays activity at the two local tracks and particularly Jefferson Park, where the lid will be pried off Thanksgiving Day, approached mid-season volume. Favored by very favorable training conditions and cool, sunny weather, trainers, whose horses have had time to recover from the tiring effects of the long trip from northern points, were busy putting their charges through a serious training period. At the same -iSltimn orrumlo. nfl Pplrorl in nt VintTl .Tp.ffprsnn . , j Park and the Fair Grounds, and with a corps of men going about the task of putting the former course in shape for the opening, there was plenty to hold the interest of track visitors. Robert S. Eddy, Jr., general manager of Jefferson Park, found matters requiring his personal attention heavier than on any other day since he opened his office on the grounds. Again he was besieged with requests for stall accommodations and applications received came from almost all parts of the country, and while it is impossible to take care of all the late requests, quarters for some may be found at the Fair Grounds and in private barns in the vicinity of the two tracks. The number of applications received for stalls this winter so greatly exceeds the number in any previous season since the revival of racing here that a record colony of horses is assured. It is estimated that all stables at both Jefferson Park and the Fair Grounds will be filled to capacity throughout the winter. Stables checking in this morning came from New York and Kentucky, with several prominent establishments heading the arrivals. Three cars from Latonia and another from New York arrived at the unloading chute. A half dozen shipments arrived in good condition from Kentucky Sunday and five or six cars are expected in tomorrow. This steady influx of thoroughbreds, inaugurated last week, will continue through the week and the opening of the season is almost certain to see all stables, at the two courses filled to capacity. The office of Julius Reeder, racing secretary, was opened at Jefferson Park this morning. Richard Leigh, Cliff Abbo, John Carey, Frank Otis and others are assisting Reeder in registering the equine personnel of the scores of stables and badges will be ready for distribution upon the arrival of stewards Thomas C. Bradley and John T. Ireland from Kentucky. Prospects for an excellent renewal of the Thanksgiving Handicap, feature race on the inaugural program, as uncovered today by secretary Reeder, were most pleasing. A prospectus of the probable field for the race, which is open to all ages and set for decision at one mile and a sixteenth, indicates a large and classy field. Prominent among the probable starters are A. B. Letelliers Sazerac, Mrs. R. Pollards Uluniu, John Marschs Chief John, Prince Atheling and Camp Pince, M. Goldblatts Jimmy Moran, B. Creechs Portcodine, C. V. Whitneys Skirl Continued on eighth page. NEW ORLEANS LARGE COLONY Continued from first page. and Mrs. E. Denemarks Pigeon Hole, F. Serembas Nyack, W. L. Johnstons Rip Van Winkle, C. H. Knebelkamps Hoops and several others. Reeder is closing entries for the race Tuesday, November 22, and weights and acceptances are due the following morning. Entries can be made by telegraph or letter and Reeder anticipates several nominations from stables still at northern points but due here within the next week. Announcement of the scale of jockey fees to prevail through the entire Jefferson Park meeting of fifty-one days won instant approval of the riders here. According to the announcement the fees will be 0 for winning mounts, for second or third and for unplaced mounts in all races where the purse is 00. In races of 00 or over, winnings mounts will be 5 and losing mounts 0. With but few exceptions all the leading younger riders who have been working in Kentucky, Illinois and the East and a large percentage of the outstanding older jockeys, will ride here. Joseph Cattarinich, who is one of the principal stockholders in Jefferson Park, is expected here Sunday from Montreal and will remain through the entire meeting. Later he will be joined by Leo Dandurand, also of Montreal and associated with Cattarinich in racing, ice hockey and other sports enterprises. If the Audley Farm stable arrives here in time, the establishment may be represented in the Thanksgiving Handicap by Late Date, the clever filly that has proven a consistent winner in the best company this season. Jockey H. L. Fischer, H. Schutte and R. Martin may come here with this stable, which is trained by Kay Spence. For the convenience of horsemen, racing secretary Reeder is accepting yearling registrations as furnished by The Jockey Club for filing at Jefferson Park. Horsemen who expect to race two-year-olds of 1933 at the Shrewsbury track are asked to file such papers at their earliest convenience. G. R. Wingfield, Jefferson Park starter, is returning tomorrow from Florida, where he spent the past week. During his absence schooling has been directed by Jack Hen-nessy. Defier, son of Bud Lerner, for which Frank Seremba paid 2,600, is going along nicely in his training at Jefferson Park and promises to win his share of races here this winter. Seremba summered the three-year-old at Petite Vercheres, the stables and paddock enclosure which J. Cattarinich built at Jefferson- Park a year ago. Stalls in the Fair Grounds stable, leased by the Three Ds Stock Farm for the winter, were bedded down and the big string R. N. Vestal will bring over from Arlington, Texas, is due any day now. D. McDermid, who has raced here many seasons, will be in charge of the horses of C. N. Ingle. The horses in McDermids care at Jefferson Park are Drastic Water, Drastic Delight, Bonnie Cap, Our Price, Esther Ann and Just Reward.
