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RACING FOR MEXICO CITY PROMINENT MEXICAN HAS PLAN FOE DIVIDING WINTER DATES WITH JUAREZ. Alexander do La Arena Arrives at Louisville for Conference with Col. Matt J. Winn on Subject-Projectors of Plan Want American Horses. Louisville, Ky., July 19. Alexander de La Arena, one of tlie most prominent racing men in Mexico, nrrived in this city yesterday to hold a conference with Col. Matt J. Winn in regard to winter racing in Mexico during 1911 and 1912. Mr. de La Arena now has control of racing in Mexico City and he is also an owner of stock in the Juarez Jockey Club course. He thinks Mexico City would be a good jdace for a forty days winter meeting in November and December, and he came to Louisville to present such a proposition to Colonel Winn. His idea ts to conduct Mexico City racing in conjunction with Juarez. He believes a forty days meeting in November and December in the Mexican capital would be a paying venture, and that on their way back to the United States the horsemen could stop at Juarez and begin tbe winter meeting there in January and race thirty or sixty days, or perhaps longer. Mr. de La Arena says there are 100 horses in training at Mexico City, and with even as small a number us 200 horses shipped there from tbe United States fairly good cards could be provided for a forty-days meeting. He hardly expects to get Colonel Winns consent immediately to an arrangement for a division of dates the coming winter at Mexico City and Juarez. He is on his way to a visit to Now York City and stopped over here to discuss the situation with the manager of the Jockey Club Juarez plant. Mr. de La Arena intimated that if Mexico City does hold a forty-days meeting in November and December, the Jockey Club would get tbe horses from the United States if they had to guarantee tbe horsemen shipping expenses to the Mexican capital. irom Kentucky it is no further, for instance, to , Iesico City than it is to San Francisco, and the rail-i i road accommodations arc good both for passengers Ps.nd horses. He lias during the last few years been Interested in many horses sent from Kentucky to Mexico City, and has had good luck with all his shipments there. Mr. de La Arena met with fairly good luck with his stable during the summer meeting in Mexico City. Ills three-year-old, San Roman, won two big stakes, one a ,500 event for three-year-old colts bred and foaled in Mexico, and the other a ,000 stake for colts and iillies. San Roman is by Roommate Resume, by Salvator. and his owner expects him to win the rich Mexico Derby next fall. The de La Arena horses are handled by the American trainer, W. Sims. The stable had bad luck with two horses raced at the Mexico City meeting. They were Can-dleberry and Projeetile, both of which Mr. de La J Arena bought from Max Ilirsch last winter. Both were injured in racing and the latter may never race again. She. however, is considered valuable as a i broodmare, being by Meddler, out of the great mare, I Gunfire. The latter is the only mare that ever won the Metropolitan Handicap, and her mile in l:3Si5 j has only once been beaten in the history of that great stake. I Trainer Sims thinks he can bring Candlebcrry around again in time, though one of the horses legs was badly cut up. If he fails to train again his owner will next spring send him to the stud, as he Iiought him with the view of ultimately having him for a sire. He is a beautifully bred horse, being by Hen Brush Candlemas. Candlebcrry was second to Sweep in the Coney Island Futurity of 1909 and second io Radium Star in the Matron Stakes the same seasou. He was also third to Fauntleroy and Kingship in the Champagne Stakes. Mr. de La Arena Is a great lover of thoroughbreds and racing, and now has his Mexico ranch well stocked with fashionably bred broodmares. He says Mexico is enjoying a big boom in horses and that It is now an excellent market for stock of the right sort.
