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JUAREZ SPECIAL DEPARTS FROM LATONIA. Plans for Kentucky Shipments to Cuba Aro Changed More Horses from West for Norfolk. Cincinnati, O., November 13. The large number of horses that have been racing at the Latonla track got away today. The Elrod special, bound for Juarez, wns away on schedule time. It consisted of nine cars of horses, two sleepers, one diner, one baggage car and one day coach. Some owners who had been booked to go backed out at the last moment and decided to winter their horses at Churchill Downs or Douglas Park, with the possibility of racing later on at Charleston. Onthe Elrod special W. H. Fizer shipped twlevo horses; William St. Vincent, six; Matt Phillips,! four; C. P. Lamar, three; nenderson and Hogan, twelve; Henry McDaniel, twenty-four; H. H. Selby, seven; Grover Baker, four; J. T. Ireland, ten; George M. Odom, ten; Steve Judge, five; T. II. Henry, three, and J. C. Rous, Jr., three. The special is expected to reach Memphis at eight oclock tomorrow morning. Texarkana at eight oclock in the evening, and El Paso at noon Thursday. The special to bo run to Norfolk to take horses bound for Cuba has been abandoned. Manv of the owners here did not relish the idea of laying Idle at Norfolk until December 28, preferring to spend the leisure time in Kentucky. On December 1 a special will leave here in charge of W. W. Lyles. bound for Isew Orleans, nnd will pick up several cars at Lexington and Louisville. The horses of T. C. McDowell, Wayne Joplin. J. W. May and others will be in this shipment. Word was received from n. 1. Brown this morning that the boats chartered for the Havana trip will leave Norfolk November 2S aud December 1. Four carloads of horses bound for Norfolk will leave Latonla tomorrow morning. George Ham will ship ten, Wayne Lewis 14, and P. J. Miles 14.
