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JUAREZ TO GET EECRUITS SHIPMENTS OF STABLES TO BE MADE FROM CALIFORNIA ERE LONG A B Spreckcls to Transfer His Pretentious String to New Mexican Course Intimation That Oak ¬ land Meeting Will Not Be Extended El PaFo Tox January 11 Hain falls infrequently hereabouts and the great Terrazas Park course was not built in anticipation of a rainy season Therefore wJieit there was a dowiqiour this morning that made the adobclikt going slippery and uncertain and un ¬ like anything the local racers have ever experienced a radical cnange of form in the running was a naturiil result The public found it so difficult to pick the winners that the layers for the first time during this meeting reaped a rich harvest The disqualification of Wander the bestbacked liorse in the fourtii race materially contributed to the en ¬ richment of tin ring This was the principal feature programmed Only four horses one of the smallest lields of the meeting tried conclusions The start was unique in that it was the only bad one Mars Cassidy has been guilty of making in Mexico Early Tide the oddson favorite was quickly eliminated from contention by bolting Wander came from a long way back In tin first quarter to contest the lead with the Hying and vastly improved Al Muller This pair ran like a team to midway of the stretch where Wander began to forge ahead and bore to the out ¬ side The more Al Muller weakened the more prominent was the tendency of Wander to crowd to the inside and the pair finally reached the finish directly under the judges stand with Wander in complete control of the situation On Garners com ¬ plaint of foul tlic stewards promptly displaced Wander leaving Al Muller first Orbed Lad second and Early Tide badly i eaten off third thirdThe The defeat of Woods promising juvenile Frank Mullens for which In had recently liccu offenrd a fancy price by Sterlln was the sensational upset of the afternoon It was generally attributed to track conditions but close observers blamed it to iiiciiraiHfont jockeyship jockeyshipAn An Important recruit to local racing arrived today from Oakland in the person of George W Berry manager for A B Spreckels the multimillionaire breeder and turfman of California Mr Berry ap idiid for stalls for thirtythree twoyearolds and seven older horses wlilcli lie contiinnlates shipping here from Oakland Only two stalls being available a contract was immediately let for the construction of fifty additional stalls in order to accommodate the big Sprckels string as well as a number of other intending shippers from Oakland after the close of the present meeting there which Mr Berry ay may run only the sixty days originally sched ¬ uled