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JUAREZ RACING SUSPENDED HEAVY DOWNPOUR OF RAIN RENDERS MEXICAN COURSE UNSAFE FOR SPORT. Management Decides to Dispense with Programs Prepared for Today and Tomorrow Harrigan Breaks Mile Record, i El Paso. Tex., January 23. A heavy downpour of ruin last night uiul early this morning rendered the .Juarez track exceedingly heavy and. the management deeming it unsafe for the horses to race over, it was decided to suspend racing until Thursday, hy which time it is expected the course will have dried out. This decision met with the approval of the horsemen generally, although they do not relish kecnlv the two days layoff at this season. Threatening weather affected the attendance yes-terdav, but nevertheless a goodly-sized throng was in attendance to witness the running of a brilliant card, the feature of which was the El Paso Handicap at one mile, which had for its principal contestants Harrigan. Injury and Polls. Post time found Polls held highest in. the estimation of the public, with Harrigan next in demaud. Polls, none too well ridden, was not able to overcome the ground lost by being reserved too far out of contention in the early running and just failed to get up. Harrigan. the winner, ran a grand race and succeeded in lowering the track record by one-fifth of a second when he ran the mile in 1:373. The other races were well contested throughout. Not a favorite won. but the winners were all well backed. Thurbet. while running prominently in the fifth race, bled and was pulled up. Enfield, the favorite of the third, was cut off sharply on the backstretch and this cost him the race. At a sale iu the paddock this morning of horses in training, the property of G. W. J. Uisscll, the following prices were realized; Ked Hussar. 00; Allan Potter. Lavono, S0; V. Simins. Scarlet Pimpernel. .2,".: W.- Walker. Southern Light. 00: W. Shunts. Edna Perry, 0; L. Kelley. Blanche Kiug,0: J. Brennan. - Mnxinc Dale, 00: L. Kelley. Count ie Oro. .0; Allan Potter. .Miss Milton. 10: Allan Potter. Lady Dolora. 93; W. Simms. Chestnut tilly, 2. by Maddalo Moua Beresford, 1911.sh0: .T. Brennan. Cotvtto was sold at the same time to Joseph llurttsehcll for 00 and Hekuows toM. Shipley for S3.
