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THOROUGHBREDS TO GO -TO MEXICO. New York, September 25. While it was- chiefly with a view of improving . his range stock- that Senor Don Juan Horcasitas, Of Chihuahua,-Mexico, recently bought through Leslie Kraft - the horses Puissant and Baytwlg and five thoroughbred yearlings, these horses will -do: -a bit of racing, Mr. Kraft says, before they are put "into the stud. The Mexicans have no organized- raelngv The population and wealth of the Southern Republic is distributed over too great an area for the successful conduct of the sport on American; lines. But they do a deal of desultory racjng. When an- owner of one range thinks he has a good horse he cballanges the owner of another, fifteen or twenty miles distant, who may think "he also owns; a Tuaner, to: a match or a series of matches H. M. Mason, one of tKe tnost jfcpalgandof eastern trainers, rode races in the late 8bs and early 90 s when he was in Chihuahua with Jack Follans-iee. The races are invariably jrun out in the open common at distances varying from 000 to 880 yards. They are purely trials of speed. Endurance in horse or rider does not count for anything. But money . can be picked up by a, man who has a thoroughbred that can step a bit.. Puissant and Bay twig will probably win many a race on the other side of the Rio Grande before they are set to work to Improve Senor Horcasitas range stock.
