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MATT WINN IS ENTHUSIASTIC. . Louisville, Ky., September 7. Matt J. Winn, general manager of the New Louisville Jockey Club, who has just returned from Juarez, Mex., is enthusiastic regarding the outlook for winter racing in Mexico. He would not have come to Louisville at this time except that his services are required in the preparation of the details for the coming meeting at Churchill Downs, which begins ou September 25 and ends on October !. Mr. Winn says these thirteen days of racing will furnish splendid sport, and that an attractive program will lie prepared. I. X. Murphy, architect of the new racing plant at Juarez, returned north witli Mr. Winn. The latter said of his trip: "We spent most of the month of August at Juarez. The construction work on the new race track there is about half completed, and everything is working as smoothly as possible. Messrs. Murphy, Follansbee add myself are all much impressed with the outlook, and the track will undoubtedly lie one of the finest in the country. It is being built like the famous Santa Anita course in California, and when it is finished 1 believe it will be one of the most beautiful plants in this country. "I am sure that racing in Mexico will prove a success. The people all over that country are sportively inclined, and 1 must say we were splendidly treated wherever we went, both by the government officials and the citizens. We were practically met with open arms, and almost every concession asked was granted. The country around Juarez and 101 Paso is thickly populated, and besides 1 expect thousands of lovers of the thoroughbred horse in the north and middle west to attend this meeting. We will open the sport on Thanksgiving day with a handicap that should attract some of the best horses in training in this country. "I cannot say much regarding the coming meeting at Churchill Downs, because I have just arrived. I do know, however, that all of the eastern horsemen who attended the meeting at the Downs tills spring will return for the fall meeting. They promised me this at Empire City track. I expect also many additions from the eastern contingent. We will have thirteen days of the sport here, and there will be a handicap each day. Secretary Lyman Davis lias been attending to the details, and I am sure that lie has done his work well. "I will begin work at once on the stakes for the Juarez meeting. The stakes will be of the value of ,000 and ,000 each and the overnight handicaps will be valuable. We will have a double line of street car tracks to the. course, and spectators can ride from the principal hotel in El Paso to the track in fifteen minutes. We will have a mile chute and a half-mile chute, and I know horsemen will lie pleased with the course."
