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MEADOW -IN GRAND FORM WADE MLEMORES MARE EQUALS JUAREZ RECORD CARRYING HEAVY IMPOST. Runs Mile and a Sixteenth in 1 :45, with 132 Pounds Up Quartermaster Changes Hands After An Impressive Victory Over The Hague. El Pasn, Tex., March 7. One of the best cards of the meeting, the features of which were the Aguas Calicntcs: Handicap at. one and a sixteenth- miles and an allowance race at live-eighths, attracted one of the largest crowds of the Juarez season today. Wade McLemores grand race mare, .Meadow, carried 132 pounds to an easy victory in the stake race, incidentally equaling the track record of 1:45 and therc-!y securely established herself as the queen of the local turf. Had she been fully extended she doubtless would have created a new mark for the distance. It was expected that the third raae, from the finality of the sprinters entered, might produce a new record, track and weather conditions were perfect, but in this the crowd was disappointed, as there seemed to be an unwillingness on the part of the riders to force the iiace necessary to a record-breaking performance. The success of four heavily backed favorites and two second choices gave the ring one of the severest drubbings of the season. After the victory of Quartermaster in the second race, in which he made a show of his held, he was hid up to .000 by AA G. Yanke and became the property of that owner. In retaliation C. E. Patterson, claimed The Hague for 50. The winner is a fine-looking colt and the ease with which he has won his last two starts stamps him as a racer of more than ordinary quality. JoCkey Allen was suspended for ten days for breaking through the barrier in the third race with Hobby Boyer. The victory of Creston, a top-heavy favorite in the - .fif.lhrirfe, upset an attempted, coup with Doc Allen, Which was heavily backed locally as well as elsewhere.,, . . MflCkey. T. Rice carried off the riding honors of the day by piloting three winners. This loy is easily the best rider here at present, being alert at the post, and especially effective in a whipping finish. r. W. ITeflley uncorked a good one in Rompie, winner of the first race, for maiden three-year-olds. Rompie was one of the best good things of the meeting and was the medium of a heavy plunge by the Biitart sot. Col. Matt J. Winn, upon his return from Kentucky, Will relieve Charles F. Price as presiding steward. Judge Price will leave about March 13 for Magnolia Springs. Ala, where he will spend alKJUt five weeks fishing and enjoying a vacation preparatory to the opening of the racing season in Kentucky. Jndge Trice has made a host of friends in El Paso by his quiet and unassuming manners and lias kept the racing at Terrazas Park notably free from scandal. On the day following the close of the Juarez meeting, Sunday. April 2, a special train made up of fifteen carloads of horses, will leave for Churchill Downs. This shipment, will include all the best horses that have been racing at Juarez during the past winter and some from Oakland as well.
