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i 1 i AMERICAN HORSEMEN ARE IMPRESSED. Racing Men from This Country Enthuse Over Outlook for Sport at Mexico City. Mexico City, Mex., November 0. The horsemen who came here from the United States to participate In the race meeting at Condesa are now enthusiastic in their expressions of opinion as to the future of racing in Mexico City. The rainy season, which was prolonged to an unusual extent this year, is now over and the weather has finally settled, every day being ideal for racing purposes, while the track is becoming faster. According to precedent, this condition of affairs will obtain from now until the early part of May. J. G. Follansbee has been elected president of the Jockey Club Juarez, succeeding Alberto Ter-razas. whose large business interests will require all of his attention in the future and leave him no time to properly attend to his duties as president of the racing association in tho border city. Mr. Follansbees extensive connection with turf affairs eminently qualifies him for the position to which he has been elected. Jockey George Mountain, whose name is familiar to racing men in tho United States and who has ridden the largest number of winning mounts during the meeting in progress here, has announced .his determination of going to Buenos Ayres at the conclusion of tho racing season in Mexico City. Mountain is growing a trifle heavy to make the weights demanded in the United States and it is for this reason that he has decided to go to the capital of the Latin republic In the far south, where the Imposts are heavier and the climate is more favorable for reducing. Mountain will be accompanied by William Sims, familiarly known as "Chappie," who has been training the strings of several Mexican owners of thoroughbreds for a year past. It is Sims intention to establish a public training stable in Buenos Ayres. W. J. Loam, trainer of Shooting Star, winner of the Mexican Derby, which was run on the opening day of the meeting here, is engaged in breaking a band of likely -looking yearlings, some of which will be candidates for the Mexican Derby of 1913. If is his intention to prepare some of them for racing on the tracks of the United States and they will make their premiere in tho republic to the north in their two-year-old form. Mr. Loam has -been training successfully for a number of ownfersr herds - Tecoac, owned by Guilleftno Laflda y Escandon, formerly governor of the federal district under thp Diaz regime, will make his first appearance on the turf this season, next Saturday. Tecoac went to the post last year in the first Mexican Derby ka odds-on favorite, and is still considered by many to be the best race horse of the Mexican-owned contingent. On the occasion of tho first Derby Tecoac ran out In the stretch and finished third. . Auspicious weather and a large attendance marked the sixth day of the meeting at Condesa this afternoon. Members of the Mexican Jockey Club and their families weru out in force, as considerable Interest centered in the fourth race, for Mexican-foaled three-year-olds. The contenders were Governor G. de Landa y Escaudons Alerta and Dos Es-trcllas, L. Zivys fast filly Wiggins and Sen. De la Arenas Marques de San Roman. Unfortunately, San Roman bolted at the start and refused to break, and this untoward circumstance was followed by the erratic actions of Dos Estrellas. which became well nigh unmanageable in the stretch, bumping into his stable mate, Alerta, and seriously interfering with Wiggins. The latter won by a scant margin. The track was much faster today than hitherto and tho first, third and fifth races, all at five and a half furlongs, were run in 1:075, 1:07 and 1:07 J respectively. H. R. Brandts Harrlgan, which had not been running well here, has evidently become acclimated. He won today by a length .from the speedy Oakland, which in turn seenred second money by two and a half lengths from Chapultepec. Harrigans time in this race represented a new track record for five and a half furlongs. Marzo won the second race from W. H. Ford by a .head in a spectacular finish, with Wooltcx, Robert and Traymore strung out many lengths behind. W. G. Yankes Lackrose won by three-quarters of a length from Gore, whicli ran second in the first Mexican Derby, with the rest of the field, John Louis and Brave Withers thirty lengths behind. Among the new arrivals here are J. L. Wilson and J. Campa of Juarez, and George North, who came here direct from Coer.r dAlenc.
