New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-01-30
our Spring Hsaccs.

Hin CnrscRsr has already chronis ,ted Inc fact
that racing in the grand old style hich once char
acterzed the tart q Louisiana is about to be re-
newed in april, on the Fair Grounds Course, for
merly the Union. Such men as Kenner, Benja-
min, Lecompte, Minor, etc, from this State, and
Hutchinson, Moore, Patterson, Cottrell and many
others from ner1 hborng States, feel an active and
strong interes.t in making our Spring meeting e
brilliant and numerous one and when such OF our
own Immediate citizens as Captain Slocomb and
Others, equally prominent, lend their energies to
the grateful task, we feel no hesitation in predict
ing that the spring races, this season, will Dc iaiy
as SPLENDID and satisfactory as when the famous
Lexington and Lecompte ran their unequaliea
match upon the Metairie.
1 To give our more distant readers some ldea OF
the liberality and warmth with which the fevlVal
of the turf is regarded by the people OF LOUISIANA
we are at liberty to state that the purses WHICH
have been promised in the advertisement Oh 'he
meeting, have been more than doubled py aeeuai
subscription.
We trust the owners of the great stables in the
West, as well as those from the North aha has.,
who ntendsto winter their studs in Alabama, will
give their attention to this subject. Asteroia anu
ether celebrated horses WILL as sure as they make
/ their appearance here, lind ngh-mestiea eoursefs
that viii nut them to their mettle, both for speed
and endurance.
The old spirit of hospitality burns as brightly as
ever in the Crescent City, and those turfmen who
visit us will find no reason to regret the trip unless
in the fact that their fayorites may be beat for the
purse and the plate.
We find in the New York '.Turf Field ant
Farm, of the goth inst. correct and interesting
r. - Att, .I
with our cordial approval:
4 Editors Tsaf, Field and Fdrn,--Ie is viii
| great pleasure / announce through your columns
/ for the information of the sporting world ina
| with the commencement of the new year, the PEG
pie of New Orleans have determined to revive
/ racing here, and so place the sport on an emin
ence it occupied before our unfortunate dissension
| occurred Four years have passed since we saw
s'hgh-metted y racers contesting for pride O.
place. and we hope in the exciting and exhllirrat
ing scenes of the turf, to forget the ravages OIL
/ war. The moving spirit Of our enterprise is tina
/ popular citizen and wealthy gentleman, Cuthher
/ III. Slocomb, who knows mo sueh wore
as fail, (" and whose name, to the an
nouncement gives assurance that no departure
from punctual and honorable proceedings wl'bt
tolerated. Turfmen from the West have thus
every inducement to send their stables to winter
here, or at Mobile; for. should the number
horses Justify it, two weeks racing will be glyer
here in April, after the Mobile meeting terminates
II the honored 90 Metarie " can be got ready,
meeting will take place over that renowned
course, and, failing this, a second week can BE-
given overj the Fair Grounds Course the old
onion Course. We hope that Mr.. Alexander vii
send US a stable, even if it does not include the
famous Asteroid, and it is time he should pay the
! Crescent City another visit. A strong desire
exists to see Capt. B. f. Hutchinson twhom W.
know well) with his successful stable, and w
i think that more than the usual inducements TO
distant stables to come here exist now; for alas
we have but one local stable, that of Mr. Kenner
The lamented Wells is no more, Bngaman Mno
and Lecompte have no horses in training. Capt
Moore and Mr.. Patterson are in Mobile, where Mr.
Il CottreIl and Mr.. Williamson have local stables
and DR.. Weldon is expected there. We shall rel
on these stables to visit us, and hope additions
ones from Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri and Ill
nos. We offer the purses; it is for turtmen t
appropriate them, and fewer disadvantages are t
be encountered now than will exist hereafter, fC
home stables will be formed by another year.