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j i I FAIR GROUNDS OPENING STAKE Thanksgiving Handicap to Grace Crescent City Holiday Card. Zevson and Waxwing Probable Favorites for Inaugural Feature Track Ready for Thursday. NEW ORLEANS, La., Nov. 21 Among the dozen or so likely to take part in the sixteenth running of the Thanksgiving Handicap at the Fair Grounds Thursday, opening day of the long winter meeting of the Louisiana Jockey Club, are two horses which will be trying for their second victories in this ,000 added feature. They are Mrs. E. H. Bartletts Zevson, a star of the handicap division in New Orleans for two winters, and R. A. Cowards Waxwing, one of the topnotchers here last season. Zevson, as a four-year-old, won the stake in 1936 and in so doing hung up a new track record of 1:41 for the mile and seventy yards. Last Thanksgiving, Waxwing, also a four-year-old, took down top honors. These two horses met a number of times here last winter and on their performances at the Fair Grounds there was little to choose between them, although Zevson invaded Hia-leah Park late in the season and distinguished himself by finishing second to War Admiral in the Widener Challenge Cup. LIILE LOCAL TRACK. Both Zevson and Waxwing are known to be partial to the local track and since both of them have trained in splendid fashion they can be expected to give creditable accounts of themselves in the inaugural day headliner. Cornelio Mojena, the Cuban jockey, who handled the Bartlett horse with so much success last winter, probably will be astride the son of Zev Thursday, while Andy Lo Turco is likely to have the mount on Waxwing. While Zevson and Waxwing should come in for stanch support in the Thanksgiving Handicap, they by no stretch of the imagination should have the race at their mercy, Continued on fourteenth page. FAIR GROUNDS OPENING STAKE Continued from first page. for one of the strongest fields in several years is expected to accept the issue. There are at least two others which have placed in previous runnings of the stakes which are considered probable starters Thursday. They are E. K. Brysons Carvola, which finished third behind Waxwing and Moon Side last fall, and Butsey Hernandez Woodlander, which finished second to Fire Advance in the 1935 running of the race. Both are on the scene and ready for the test. Carvola may have T. J. Hills White Cockade as a running mate, while Adolf may perform as part of an entry, as well as Woodlander. Waxwing may also have a running companion in Upslala, which has been racing in creditable fashion. Mrs. A. M. Creech is expected to be represented by one or two from among a trio which includes Shining Heels, Gato and Grey Streak, and there are still others which are considered better than outsiders in the local handicap contingent. Some of the others likely to be found among the entries for the stakes are Chance Ray, Warlaine, Spillway, Dnieper, Fairflax, Hope Eternal, Eastport, Taken and Wood-saw. The Thanksgiving Handicap had its inaugural at old Jefferson Park in 1923 and was run their until 1934, when it was transferred to the Fair Grounds. It always has been a fitting inaugural feature and usually produces a thrilling contest. Among previous winners besides Zevson and Waxwing were such performers as Cherry Tree, Nassau, Sun Altos, Prickly Heat, Galahad, Paul Bunyan and Contraband.
