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1 • : 1 • J • • f I 1 I t ■ 1 f it i- I i f 1 :i i. v [ of ,f s |. ,1 n is s ,j in m ,1 lV SHOWS DAZZLING SPEED IN RACE. Pride of Lismore Runs Away from His Opposition in Handicap at Juarez. El Paso. Tex.. January 22. — A erowd far and away greater than any Sunday gathering ever before seen mi the Juares course witsstaaed some exceedingly spirited racing yesterday. From the first race. which was won by Hawthorn, carrying 127 pounds to his fourth consecutive victory, until the final dash, which went to Henry Walbank. the favorite, the sport was interesting. The handicap at six furlongs resulted in an easy victory for Pride of Lismore. The big sprinter opened n tremendous gap -on his field early and I finished by himself, seven lengths in advance of Injury ami Meadow. At one time during the running he was twenty lengths in front of the nearest horse. Whidden showed some improvement when he fin- bused a fast going third t Virginia Lindsay and Bit of Fortune, and the stewards ordered his entry re- fused, pending further Investigation. Jockey Frascu. who rode him. was also suspended. Rosen, who interfered so badly with Copper town 1 in the lasr race on Saturday, was suspended for fifteen days by the stewards. The horse Copper town was claimed out of the race for 2.j by It. J. Power-. Qawtgt f tlnde ■buigel . the official timer at Juarez, • was called home to Louisville yesterday by the illness of his wife. 11. Houiau will officiate as ; timer durine; his absence, George Odom has relinquished the call he held 1 on jockey .1. Henry and the bof will ride as a 1 free lance in the future. Wolferton reduced the track record for one mile and a quarter to 2: » :~ when he won the fifth race. The former record was 2:07. Charles Clark, son of former Senator William A. Clark, of Montana, will be on hand when the first 1 of the racers he recently shipped here from Califor nia goes to the ]K st. In the Clark stable are the sensational Climy. Venetian and other older horses, besides five promising two-year-olds. Jo* Hsrvaes, who in the "nineties rode Racine. Flirtation. Nomad. Cadmus and other stars of those days for Thomas H. Williams of California, is training the Clark string : ami Judging from their appearance every one of the horses will do for early racing. Cluny looks in the pink of condition and race followers will watch her debut here with great interest, as past performances • stamp her as a Real filly. She is a daughter of J Salvation ami Valenoicntie anil though she ha- not t faced the barrier since a two-year-old. her recent • trials over Mr. Clarks private track at San Mateo. California, were .if such s sensational nature thai she is expected t duplicate her former triumphs in I the "nil roaster" of her wealthy owner. C. H. Chyles Hawthorn, winner of four conseeu-r • tive tWO-year-old races here since January 1. is re-e garded as a hijib class race horse by the horsemen II quartered here. Hawthorn gallops like a champion. • looks like a champion and in breeding has everything I that gees to make up a real race horse. There is some agitation anionj* the horsemen for r the extension of the Juarez mcetiug for two weeks - beyond its original schedule, which called for the closing of the meeting March 22. There is also 0 some talk of a movement for racing every day in n the week for the rest of the meeting, instead of the e mx days schedule now in force. The present meeting at Juarez has brought the " inauguration of a reform in the matter of the pun-n 1- ishment of riders charged with slight infractions of the rules. This reform has to do with the abolish 1 meat of the system of baussshsg fines ou the riders. No saore are the ln.ys assessed heavy fines. Instead, ; whenever punishment is meted out to any offending 8 Jockey, he is suspended for a period measured by I his breach of discipline.
