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M J WINN INTERVIEWFJ IN FJLST Speaks Out for the PariMutuels and Talks of Re ¬ sults Achieved at Juarez Track New York April C Matt J Winn manager of race tracks at Juarez and Louisville is registered at the WaldorfAstoria In an interview Colonel Winn made several interesting statements regarding the turf in this country countryRacing Racing in Kentucky has been saved from utter ruin by the parimutuel system of betting he declared Tho Churchill Downs track at Louis ¬ ville for instance lias enjoyed greater prosperity than in the days when bookmakers held sway Th attendance has increased and as the revenue from the nuituel machines has exceeded the original estimate we have been able to offer more valuable stakes and purses than in former days daysThe The nuituel betting has rid the Kentucky turf of many undesirable hangerson the cheap touts shoestring gamblers and owners who look for favors in the betting ring This form of speculation has I ccn approved by some of our best citizens and I believe if the system could l c adopted in New York state for instance it would be a huge success You cannot make the average person believe that bookmakers do not win all the money It isnt true of course but it is a fact nevertheless that the bookmaker has become unpopular and his pres ¬ ence in the betting ring has injured racing The mutuels on the other hand guarantee honest racing because you cannot back a horse to lose under that thatIn In spite of the rebellion in Mexico the recent Juarez meeting netted a profit of 50000 This was the first money we made since the track was opened three years ago The track cost 500 OO and the first meeting resulted in an even break We made the mistake of hanging up too much money for stakes the following year and finished 0OUO to the bad Last winter though cutting down ex ¬ penses we still distributed 200000 among the successful horse owners Our attendance averaged about 1500 dally at a dollar a head and we derived a daily revenue of 1800 from nine bookmakers Fifteen messengers also paid 20 each day w hilt the catering privileges were worth something too tooThe The trouble with AV G Yanke was due to the fact that he not only owned the strongest stable and was a heavy bettor but lie also bad an interest in three books Judge C F Price J G Follansbeu and myself as stewards did not charge Yanke with dishonorable methods but we did not relish his extensive operations in the poolrooms Ve told him that he must either give up the books or sell his stable and as he refused to do either we asked him to operate elsewhere elsewhereWe We ruled off Jockeys A Walsh and J Howard because we had proof of their connection with a svndicate formed in this city to beat the poolrooms Wo received our information from agents here and it wasnt long before we got the goods on the riders This action served to clean up the sport at Juarez where it must be remembered we had to deal with inexperienced jockeys a poor quality of horses and numerous sharpshooters who at first believed they could do as they pleased pleasedIt It was an odd fact that during all the riot and disorder in Juarez the race track was not molested Tho federals and rebels in turn came out to see the horses run and made their bets like cntlemcn We had more Mexican patrons by the way than in former years There will be a new hotel iu El Paso next winter and we hope eastern racing men will pay us a visit visitMr Mr Winn had a talk with James Butler and Price McKinney yesterday He denied the widely circulated report that there would be an attempt to race at Empire City Yonkers this year He said that the Empire City Racing Association would mako no attempt to test the socalled directors liability law by leasing the track to a new eorpora tion
