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♦ ♦ 1 ■ 1 • 1 1 ; ; 1 ■ • , | I 1 - 1 , I 1 e i J 1 5 i s | • J ! " 1 3 1 e a • " e e • 1 4 Orleans Features | For 1951-52 Listed 5,000 Handicap and Derby Of 0,000 Headline Events To Be Run at 81 -Day Meeting NEW ORLEANS, La., June 28. — Fair Grounds racing will offer a lucrative array of stakes and purses during the 1951-1952 season, which gets under way here Thanks-; giving Day. j As revenue increased last season, president John S. Letellier and executive vice-president Anthony Pelleteri won the confidence of horsemen here by upping the daily purse schedule as the season went on, and they promise that there will be no let- j down during the coming meeting. Stakes were raised on short notice, and several rich events were added to the race program. Letellier and Pelleteri assure all horsemen that this policy will continue — and purses will be increased as quickly as revenue makes it possible. The 1951-52 program now includes the 5,000 New Orleans Handicap; the 0,000 Louisiana Derby; the 0,000 A. B. Letellier Memorial added last year; the 0,000 Louisiana Handicap; the 0,000 LeCompte Handicap; eleven ,000 handicaps, and a generous allotment of ,500 events. Purse distribution averaged approxi- mately 2,000 per day during the 76-day meeting last year. With five days added to the coming fall and winter program, total purse distribution should run considerably higher. Tentative Schedule The tentative stake and handicap program for 1951-52 is as follows: November 22 — Thanksgiving Handicap, ,000, 3-year-olds and upward, 6 furlongs. December 8 — Baton Rouge Handicap, ,000, 3-year-olds and upward, one and one-sixteenth miles. December 15 — Gulf Coast Handicap. ,000, 3-year-olds and upward, one and one-sixteenth miles. December 22 — Yuletide Handicap, ,000, 2-year-olds, five and one-half furlongs. December 25 — Christmas Handicap, ,000, 3-year-olds and upward, six furlongs. December 31 — Sugar Bowl Handicap. ,000, 2-year-olds, six furlongs. January 1 — New Year Handicap, ,000, 4-year-olds and upward, six furlongs. January 8 — Old Hickory Handicap, ,000, 4-year-olds and upward, one and one-sixteenth miles. January 19 — Louisiana Handicap, 0,000, trophy, 3-year-olds and upward, one and one-eighth miles. January 26 — Marriage Handicap, ,000, trophy, 4-year-olds and upward, one and one-sixteenth miles. February 9 — LeCompte Handicap. 0,000. trophy, 3 -year-olds and upward, one and one -sixteenth miles. February 14 — Debutante Stakes, ,000, trophy, 2-year-olds, fillies, one-quarter mile. | February 16 — Duncan F. Kenner Stakes, . ,000, trophy, 2-year-olds, colts and geld- J ings, one-quarter mile. j February 23 — A. B. Letellier Memorial. I 0,000, trophy, 3-year-olds and upward. one and one-sixteenth miles. | March 1 — Louisiana Derby, 0,000, trophy, 3-year-olds, one and one-eighth miles. March 8 — New Orleans Handicap, 5,000. trophy, 3-year-olds and upward, one and one-sixteenth miles.
