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JUAREZ VENTURE SUCCESS INAUGURAL MEETING RESULTS IN FIRM ESTABLISHMENT OF MEXICAN RACING Keen Interest Aroused Among Wealthy Mexicans Mexicansand and Elaborate Plans Under Consideration Considerationfor for Next Winters Sport LI Paso Tex February 13 TUe inaugural mcct ing f the Jockey Club Juarez lias proved a gratifv Iilg success botb from a racing and a tiuaneinl stand ¬ point It is Inie the club has not garnered any profits n its initial venture but expenses have been met mid the attendance and interest shown in the meet ¬ ing have encouraged Messrs Winn Terrazas and other associates to make more elaborate plans for next winter meetingOne meeting One effect of the present meeting that is most gratifying is the deep interest that it has aroused among the wealthier class of Mexicans as a result of which many have already organized racing estab ¬ lishments while others are contemplating taking up the sport as a pastime Outside of Don Alberto Terraras who has already purchased an interest in u pretentious racing establishment the most noted recruit to the sport is Ignacio de la Torre Miers a soninlaw of President Diaz and a millionaire many times over This gentleman has been an en ¬ thusiastic daily visitor to the track He has en ¬ gaged James Johnston who recently left the employ or II G JSedwell to train his stable at i yearlv salary of 5OOO In addition Johnston will liavt a contingent interest in the winnings of the horses of the stable Of the halfdozen or more Mexican Derby candidates now in Johnstons charge Guayiilc and Gondola have shown the best trials ISuth are lieing pointed for the big Mexican City event which Senor winningOne Torre Miers is most desirous of winning One result of the present meeting in the citv of Juarez has been the increased demand for capable teachers of the Spanish language This demand conies from horsemen and bookmakers who are de ¬ sirous of learning the language of the Dons as they realize that if they hope to race and operate success ¬ fully in Mexico iu future years it will be neces ¬ sary to be able to si eak the language of the coun ¬ try tryEvprjroue Evprjroue vvho has attended thc preeiit Tuarez ineiliiiK realizes that Mexico is a promising field for the breeding and racing of the thoroughbred Such wellknown horsemen as Charles Van Meter James Blute Fred Luzader Tom Mannix and John Mark lein have been putting in their spare time studying the Mexican tongue and others are so well advanced that fluentlyThe they can speak the language fluently The quaint city of Juarez offers many attractions to the visiting horsemen besides the races The weekly bull tight held every Sunday is well at ¬ tended by the racing fraternity while the cocking main has its full quota of devotees This sport is hem on Monday which is an off day for the horse ¬ men Many wellknown faces can be seen around the pit at the weekly gatherings and no little money changes hands on the results of the contests Among those in regular attendance are Starter Mars Cassidy and Jake Marklein The club under whose auspices the fights are conducted has had construct ¬ ed a new building which was oi ened recently In ¬ vitations were sent to the mayor and city officials of Juarez and to the more prominent of the horse ¬ men all of whom attended attendedEl El Paso Tex February 15 Two favorites out of 8ix Hue and Seasick rewarded form followers at Terrazas Park today Both were of the lukewarm and receding kind and were left on the layers hands after A Jiriei flurry of early speculation Practically therefore the running of every race resulted in good profit for Hie ring Proceedings began with the suc ¬ cess of a 15 to 1 chance Egotist which had finished a consistent tailendcr in the poorest company iu his four preceding starts startsGlorios Glorios deteat in the afternoons principal feature created the greatest comment The race was won by Orbed Lad in runaway fashion The uncertain son of Smile led by a wide gap from start to finish There Was seemingly no serious move made behind him until it was too late To put it mildly jockey Bice rode Glorio with exasperating overconfident overconfidentLeopold Leopold Blum made further purchases of thorough ¬ breds for Mexican racing at Juarez today Landlord Arcourt and Opinion being the horses acquired acquiredJockeys Jockeys Dugan and Crecvy accompanied by trainer Dave Leary left for the ast yesterday yesterdayThe The last fortnight of racing at Terrazas Park was ushered iu auspiciously with smnmerlike weather the attendance growing steadily and with the same excellent standard of racing maintained to the end the sport will have surely won its way into local public favor
