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MEXICANS ARE INTERESTED HOME-BRED STABLES TO COMPETE WITH AMERICAN RACERS AT JUAREZ. Arrangement Made With Mexican Government by Which Geldings for Racing Purposes Will Be Admitted Duty-Free Hereafter. Louisville. Kv., July 25. — A letter from El Paso. Tex., stales that Alexandra dc la Arena, a Mexican millionaire, will ship a pretentious racing stable for next win t rs meeting at Juarez, and hopes to make a good showing there racing against the eracks of the American owned gtriugs with his home-bred stink. The colts and fillies that the president of the Mexican Jockey Club will principally scud to the pest ale the produce of marcs in foal bought for this Wealthy foreigner by L. Blum iu Kentucky several veals a go. Some of tiiem are now three-year-olds. but the bulk arc two-year-olds and of the latter the moat is expected, as there are said to be some promising youngsters iu the collection. It seems that horsemen going from the United States to Juarez this year will not encounter the trouble they had with geldings in setting over the bonier line last season. An arrangement has been made with the government of Mexico by which geldings for racing purposes will be allowed to enter Mexico without duty. All the improvements around ami on the grounds of the Juarez track are progressing well. Four hundred additional stalls are in course of construction which with the 800 already const rueted, will provide accommodations for 1,000 horses. The contracts on all tlie improvements call for their completion by November 1 and this will he easily accomplished, judging by tlie progress now being made in the work. As soon as the Empire City meeting winds up Secretary Lyman II. Davis will begin the compiling of the conditions of the numerous stakes to be run at Juarez, a considerable task in itself, as there will be forty or more of them this season. It is probable that the date of the closing of these events will be ubont the middle of October and during the progress of tlie fall meeting at Churchill Downs. As soon as the Louisville meeting is ended Secretary Davis will go at once to Mexico in order to have a luunth on the ground preparing for a gala opening on Thanksgiving Day. Horsemen are much elated over the prospects of In ing able to race during the winter for mi purses all around. Turfmen of the J. C. Milam type, who liav" shunned the winter tracks in recent seasons, are attracted by the value of the races to be run at Juarez the coming winter and some of them have already detl rniined to make a trip this season with u stable of horses to Mexico.
