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DEAD HEAT RECORDED AT JUAREZ. General Marchmont and Dorante Figure in Sensational Finish at Mexican Course. El Paso, Tex., January 21. Ideal racing conditions today drew the largest Saturday crowd of the Juarez meeting, fully 5,000 spectators being present. The feature event of the day was the Victorina Selling Stakes, at one mile, and, while the field was lamentably small. It proved one of the most exciting contests of the season and resulted in the first dead heat ever run over the Juarez track, Dorante and General Marchmont running as a team the entire distance, and in the last sixteenth of the race, nose and nose in perfect stride together. The success of four favorites caused general rejoicing among the large holiday crowd present. Two additional hooks cut In today, with G. H. Moylett and "Big" Mclnerney as the guiding spirits. The horses Spellbound and Seymour Beutlcr arrived late this afternoon from Oakland. C. A. Canficld, a prominent business man of Los Angeles, arrived today to stay the season. Francisco Portillo, the newly appointed mayor of Juarez, was an interested spectator during the afternoon. At the conclusion of the stake race General Marchmont was bid up ,505 by W. Hurley, trainer for E. R. Bradley, but was retained by his owner. Jack Atkin, In his preliminary work-out for the stake tomorrow, pulled up quite . lame and it Is doubtful if he will be sent to the post for that event. At a sale in the paddock before the races, Sigurd, a promising three-year-old, owned by J. Tholl, and talked of as a likely possibility for the coming Derby, was sold to Powell and Parker for ,400. W. Walker made a bid of ,350, but wonld go no further. Castor, a two-year-old, and Booker T., a three-year-old. were sold to Chief Deigo Duran at a paddock sale for 5 each. While being schooled at the barrier, the three-year-old gray gelding Unconquered burst a blood Vessel in the head and died a few moments later. He was by Sir Hampton La Rcina, and was owned by W. P. and L. E. Fine. He raced only once as a two-year-old and was regarded as promising.
