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PLENTY OF STAKE MATERIAL New Orleans Racing Secretary Satisfied With Stable Reservations. Fair Grounds Features, Weekly Handicaps and Allowance Races, Expected to Fill Well. NEW ORLEANS, La., Oct. 10. Uaterial for filling the fourteen stake races listed for the 105-day meeting of the Louisiana Jockey Club, beginning Thanksgiving Day, will not be lacking, according to racing secretary Richard A. Leigh, after making a preliminary survey of the applications now on file in the. Jockey Club office this weekend. Secretary Leigh is optimistic over the prospects of filling not only these with high grade thoroughbreds, but the two weekly handicaps and the special two-year-old allowance races as well. "I am especially pleased with the list of two-year-olds expected to come here," said secretary Leigh, "because I have at least one good race booked for each week for the better class, which will eventually develop the material which will start in the 0,000 Louisiana Derby, to be run on March 27. However, I have a fine array of dis-stance horses also listed in the applications, which is highly pleasing because I believe the fans like distance races and we will have our quota of these during the meeting." Ed. Haughton, who has always raced a fine string of horses here, both for himself as well as the Greentree Stable, is bringing a total of twenty-three head, which include Black Highbrow, a handicap sprinter; Orthoprism, winner of five distance races this year; Crowned Head, winner of nine; Swamp Angel, a ,000 distance claiming" nlnner and winner of five; Coming Back, winner of four; pharatime, winner of five of the ,500 variety; Bedight, vitirieVof five; Wee Wink, winner of five, and others in the two-year-old division. .B. Hernandez, local patron, who now has a total of eighteen head, has many winners in his- stable, including Biography, Indian-town, Lolschen, Flag Cadet, Woodlander, Combahee, Laird, Little Upset, Zuni and others. The Hernandez string was leading money winner at Thistle Down this summer, raced with success in Chicago and Detroit and is now campaigning in Texas. Coming from Rockingham is the string of Miss A. Doris, trained by H. L. Campbell, which embraces eseveral horses which have figured in the New England handicaps this summer. Among them are Lady Higloss, winner of nine; Great Haste, winner of six; Polo Bar, winner of three; Dixie Princess, winner of three; Die Hard, winner of six; Flying Dere, winner of four, and Starogan, winner of six. J. Graham is shipping the useful sprinter, Transmutable, winner of six races this year, along with Chifally and Redress.
