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PLANS FOR WINTER MEETING AT JUAREZ Louisville Ky September 21 Kacing Secretary Edward Jasper of the Jockey Club Juarez has an nounced eight stakes to be run during the coming winter meeting at Juarez Mex which meeting will include one hundred or more days of continuous rac ¬ ing beginning Thanksgiving day Thursday Novem ¬ ber 2S Entries to these events will close on Thurs ¬ day November 7 7The The values of these events show an increase is compared with the Juarez Stakes of last winter and the list in full is as follows followsFor For All Ages AgesJuarez Juarez Handicap value 1500 six furlongs furlongsAno Ano Nuevo Handicap value 1500 one mile and a sixteenth sixteenthNavidad Navidad Handicap value 1200 one mile mileDos Dos Itopublicas Handicap value 1200 seven fur ¬ longs longsEl El Paso Stakes value 1200 olio mile mileUIo UIo Grande Stakes value 1200 six furlongs furlongsFor For Twoyearolds of 1912 1912Chapullepec Chapullepec furlongsChihuahua Handicap value 1200 six furlongs Chihuahua Stakes value 1200 six furlongs furlongsIn In addition to the alxrve list other stakes to Iw run during the meeting will lie opened later on onAll All of these events are fixtures that have boon renewed with the exception of the Juarez Handicap which is a now stake The distance in tho Ano Nuovo Handicap has been decreased from a mile and an eighth to a mile and a sixteenth while the distance of the Dos Kepublicas Handicap lias been increased from six to seven furlongs The Chapu tepee Handicap is to be six furlongs It was run at one mile and an eighth during the last meeting The Chihuahua Stakes is reduced from one mile and an eighth to six furlongs and from a handicap is changed to a soiling stake stakeManager Manager M J Winn also makes the announcement in connection with tho opening of these stakes that the Juarez betting ring the coming winter will bo open to all reputable layers There will be no mori syndicate betting on the Mexico track trackThis This will be the fourth season of winter racing at the Juarez course The meeting there in 10001910 ran for seventyone days That of 10101911 ran 110 days and that of 10111012 102 days So far the track has distributed among horsemen 592580 in stakes and purses pursesTho Tho following are announced as officials for tho coming meeting President John G Follonsbco general manager Matt J Winn stewards Charles F Price W H Fenchler and Matt J Wiiiu itidges William H Shelley II F Breivogle and Ed Jasper starter JasperMany Mars Cassidy racing secretary Ed Jasper Many turfmen of prominence are making their plans to spend the coming winter at Juarez The fact that it is at present tne only certain winter racing ground will draw to it this year many new recruits and practically all the best horse now in training will race there The management of tie Juarez track has gained the confidence of horsemen because it has made good all it ever inomised to do During one season in order to fulfill its promises to turfmen the plant was operated at a heavy financial loss Until last season the Mexican course was operated at a loss and its profits from the 10111012 meeting was by m means great greatThe The coming meeting at the course on tho Rio Grande promises to lio a success in all that the word implies There will bo six or more races every day Sundays included with no purse of less than 300 in moneyJuarez added money Juarez has an ideal winter racing plant The climate in midwinter is like early spring in the north Kains are rare and snow practically un ¬ known The hotel accommodations at El Paso across the border in Texas are now equal to those in any great city A milliondollar hotel has just boon com ¬ pleted and visitors to tho Juarez track this winter may secure as luxurious accommodations as they desire desireThere There is no track in America that is more con ¬ venient to reach than Juarez is from El Paso It requires a car ride from twelve to fifteen minutes and the service is not excelled anywhere iu the country countryLast Last winter Manager Winn planned many improve ¬ ments for the benefit and convenience of the public1 and horsemen Beneath the grandstand which is one of the finest ever built new restaurant quarters have lieen provided and tho old quarters that tho restaurant formerly occupied have lieon fitted up as a reception room for ladies and guests Every little detail has boon looked after this year at tho plant and visitors will Le amazed at tho accommodations afforded by the improvements improvementsIt It certainly looks as if the Juarez track might finally come into its own as tho foremost winter racing point of America during the coming season
