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FORM IS AWRY AT JUAREZ. Horses at Short Prices Fail to Race Up to Expectations and All Favorites Are Beaten. El Paso. Tex.. March .!. For a card entirely devoid of particular feature and comprised of selling races with fields of the most ordinary .quality, a surprisingly good crowd was in attendance at Terrazas Park today. From the calibre of the contestants it was to be expected that the selecting of winners would be rather a dlflicult matter, and while the results were disappointing to the followers of form, not a single choice being returned winner, no fault could be found with the contention in the different races, three of them resulting In the most exciting of finishes with the winner in doubt until the numbers were displayed. The defeats of Creston. Jest and Kvran gave the backers of short-priced horses a jolt. Each of the trio, was backed with the. utmost confidence. Jockeys T. Smith and Johnson incurred the displeasure of starter Cassidy .and were suspended for live days for disobedience at the barrier in the second race. P. Dunne has sold Salian to M. C. Pritchard. Among recent arrivals from the west are "Canada Jack" Adkins and Dune Campbell, who have been sojourning at Cataliua Islands siuce the dose of racing at Oakland. Jockey Eddie Taplln carried off the riding honors of the afternoon by piloting the winners of the last two races. This good ridei-, whose showing during the past winter at Oakland was not up to the standard, seems to have regained his accustomed skill here and is rapidly acquiring a large following among local race-goers. Jockey T. Rico resumed riding after a lay-off of ten days. This hoy has had a hard time here this season, having been suspended thirty-live days during the meeting. J. W. Fuller, the Texas horseman who owns Injury, Toy l!oy. Nettie Marchmont and other good racers, liad some idea of .shipping to Jacksonville this month and from there faking . his string to Louisville to race on the Kentucky circuit the coming spring and summer. However, the prospects of two good meetings this year at Denver. Colo., has caused him to change his plans, aud he will now keep his string intact at the Jockey Club Juarez track until the present winter meeting ends and then ship to his farm for a rest with the idea of not going east at all this .yeaivijtfe figures that witHIcnver in-J he field there- wi!Me;cuiongltrnfclhg.rforhj1ioitteK dining the warm weather -in "T6xas, "Colorado and Oklahoma, and his string will then be in good condition to winter again at Juarez. Mr. Fuller has great faith in winter racing at Juarez and was It not that such a great plant had entered the raeing Held on the borders of his home state he would have long since greatly curtailed his thoorughbrod breeding operations.
