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i RUNS FAST TIIREE-QrAKTERS CLOSER EQUALS JUAREZ RECORD OF 1:11% IN WINNING HANDICAP. Pride of Lismore, Installed Favorite. After Sebago Is Scratched. Is Unable to Run Away from Fleet Three-year-old from Newman Stable. El Paso. Tex.. February 7. — A good crowd visited the Juarez track today and the betting wns bliss. The three-quarter-mile handicap lost in attraction by the illness of Sebago. the favorite. While in the paddock, his temperature rose to an alarming degree. Owner Brandt reported it to the stewards and be was excused. Prlda of Lismore was then installed us favorite over Closer and Bourbon Beau. They left the barrier on their toes, and Pride of I.ismore shot into the lead, but was unable to open as much of a gap on Closer as he has with other opposition in some of his previous starts. Closer challenged him in the stretch, wore him down and. drawing away from him at the tinish. equaled the track record of 1:11-.. Bourbon Beau found the distance a triaV short and the pace too fast for him. Little P.irdie, from the stable of II. McDaalel, won the two-year old race, in Which lie showed great gameiiess and stood a long stretch drive well. W. II. Kraft, a stockholder in the Juarez track and Auerto Madero. an uncle of President Madem of Mexico, came today from Chihuahua with their families. They had a box party and enjoyed the afternoons sport immensely. Oscar Lamm, a prominent race follower from Denver, is among the late arrivals. Jo-key Barlmgame drew a five-days suspension for rough riding on Serenade in the fifth race. J. W. Fuller, the former owner of Dangerous March, bid him up to Jmki and A. C. MeCafferty, who claimed him recently from Mr. Fuller, let the horse go back to Ids former stable.
