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GOSSIP FROM THE JUAREC TRACK. Gross Best All-Arcund Jockey at Mexican Course — Interest in Juveniles. Ll Paso, Tex., January II. -The two-yeat oM ts dug i- adding it- -ban- of interest to the sport at .In no/. The racing public like- to see new b i i rac.- and kindergarten performers are populai v li bettors, a- it has become an established fact thai the "baby* racers, as a whole, run tine lo form. li i- a foregone conclusion thai the youngsters !.••• this wilder, as a whole, outshine anv of their iu ever before raced hero. Thai is. they come ncare: to being ihe pies: of the representation ol their age from the breeding establishments of Kentucky, Call ferula, Texas and ether state-, than ever before. Jockey i barlea Gross, who ha- been riding in ex cellent form during the present Juan-/, meeting, was iwttu.N on years old when he rode hi- first wlnnl -race. Gross i- now oearlj twenty nine years ol ag He was belli in Las Vegas. New Mexico, and ne et thought about following riding a- a profession until he wed on a ranch when about twenty years obi. This western jockey had a score of l4o winning mounts in 1912 and wa- beaten lor the leading lion ora in America only by I". Hill and . Turner-Right now he is the most popular rider at Juare* and all his mounts arc heavily backed by the public. t The first winner Gross ever rode wa- Gallivant, in* 1905, ai Denver, Col., he then being employed by Wade W. Fossett. Thuiman «S; Lane were Ins next employers, and while in their employ in 1906 be wi injured while riding and was fotced to remain on a ranch in Nebraska nearlj a year before he finally recovered. He then went to California ami through terming an acquaintance with former jockey Cha Van Dusen. who aided him to sec nre mounts. Hi ---■ iii became a much sought for rider. His tirst wie in California was in a stake race at Los Angeles, in which he roue Supreme Court to victory. Van Dusen i- new dead, bill Hioss give- that rider all the credit for his own successful career as a Jockey, He said recently; "Van Dusen taught me all the little an-iu riding and also -hewed me how to avoid the pi falls that arc open t mar a riders career. Ili-advice was wholesome ami good, as it cam- througl his own experience, and I will never cease lo cherish a love ami reverence for him as long as I live." Gross i- one of the best behaved riders in the profession, lie i- happily married and hoes his home He has no bad habits or associates, and he is r spected alike by horsemen and racing officials, lie is a good post rider, but hi- forte is taking care ol his mounts early in a race and saving them foi the final brush through the stretch. He ha- . . this meeting figured in more powerful finishes than any jockey who bus ridden at Juarez since ;lc season of 1910-11, when T. Rice was the star rider at the Mexican track. As he can still ride as light as |02 pounds. Gross seems likely to ride success fully for years lo come. Being light of bone, he i an keep down to riding weight without taking chances of impairing his health, and it may be thai be will continue to ride until time has turned his hair a- gray a- the locks of William Hayward when that great rider rode Morel In to victory in the Futurity of 1K! 2. dross lias received word tiiat a Mew house he has been building at Oakland. al.. will seen be ready fur occupancy. His mother in law will occupy and care for the property while ihe jockey continues to ride, and when hi- quits the saddle he and his wife will make the place their borne. Groan married an Oakland uiil and for this reason selected that city for his home. Gross is of a saving disposition, and if his present earning capacity continues for a tew years longer he win acquire a competence. Aunt Mamie. I". II. Weir- -mart two-year-old filly which has the distinction of being the first two year-eld winner of tin- racing season of mi:;, wis bred by .1. K. Madden a i Hamburg Place, in Ken tuckv. She is the tirst of the get of 1neie. which as a two-year-old was contemporaneous with Colin, r. lam .1. It. Keenes unbeaten son of Commando. Uncle i- the flrst of the gel of Star Shoot to enter the stud and. Judging by the performance of Aunt Mamie in her race here on January 1. he has made good from the start. Aunt Mamie is in bred lo the famous Magnolia, boih Uncle and her dam-belonging to thai famous tribe. Hazing is a slater to Fayette, winner a- a t wo year-old of the Treniont Stakes and the Double Event, both being by Ogden Saratoga Belle, by Henry of Navarre. Fayette is now a Juarez and pulled up lame in his only start here this season. He is now owned by W. Edgar, an Oklahoma turfman, who bought him more to age as a future stock horse than he did with any hopes of getting much out of him in a racing way. Saratoga Belle is out of the faaaous Sallie McClelland, a star two year eld in her day and tie dam of Audience, a Kentucky Oaks winner. This line has been a remarkable one for great I w o-j ear olds jn the la-t decade. To il belongs such cracks a- Blue Girl, Lady Amelia and Holies. Aunt Mamie is a nicely turned, good looking filly and has ihe appearance if one that will grow belter as ihe season advance Mr. Weir will nominate her for the Debutante ami Cllpsetta Stakes in Kentucky, which events were iron in 1911 by a Juarez development, the Ah Frank filly Calhise. I. Higel owns iiu- first two-year-old thoroughbred ever foaled al Juarez, and will race the youngster here before the winter is over. She is a bay fill.v named Barbaretta and is by Financier, a son , i Box, out of Miss Nugent, by Hamilton II. So promising does Mr. Higel regard this ally that he made application to enter her in the Mexican Derby which is annually run in Mexico City. The entrj was returned to him, a- under the new rules of the Mexican Jockey Clnb she i- nol eligible to the race now. A eh .r BUy must be bred as well i foaled in Mexico to bi entitled to enter and race in that rich event. A season or two ago the lillv would have Ik-, n eligible under the rules then governing ihe great race. When Barbaretta .n in America she will be programmed as Imported, which will appear odd t., turfmen, seeing that both her sire and dam are A nol i, a n -bred. The Illinois turfman Thomas n. Ryan has a prom ising band of maiden racer- at l ho Juarez track and will soon si ml some of t ln-iu to the post. The yon; ,s! in the string are now three years old and MM in his icirii is a live-year-old. They arc: Rockdale, b. h. •". by The Roman Corrine [Inland Ada Doyle, b. 1. 4. by The Roman Chantarella. Silver Win-, b. i. 1. by Borgia— True Wing. Downl.in, 1. b. f. .".. by Downpatrick - Co: rine Unbind Eagle Wing, b. I. .:. by Borghesi— True Wing. Mr. Ryan has trained many famous horses in the days gone by and never raced when he could li. d boast of having a good winner in his barn, henc ■ any stable he ha- in charge attracts attention. Mr. Ryan trained Rival, when that noted mare won at Washin-ton Park. Chicago, at odds of KXi to 1. and The Roman, sire Of two of the horse- now in his string, won the Wheeler Handicap on the saini track iii the Ryan colors. In the old days Mr. Ryan and Pat Dunne were close friend- in racing. He -aid the ol h r day that he missed the track companion-hip of Air. Dunne, but that he was gh»l t" .n,,vv that his oh friend wa- prospering in the contracting and building business in Kansas City. ••He may come hack some daj ■ racing again." -aid Mr. Kyan. as he walked away. "He surely loves a good horse. cant believe he is done with racing for good." Wad,- McLe re has only three yen lings this sea -m. raising rmlj two colts and one Oily that were IoaN ,,f i«n-. one of the colts is a chestnut by I". T- W Is horse Atkins, mil of Chickadee. ],v Iirale of Penzance, while the other is a brother to il"- -real mare Meadow, bj !. ni,l Dolly Hayman, by Crighton. This colt is a bay in eoior and an extra good l,K,kiau youngster, with an abundance ,o sine ami plent] of bone ami suhstanee. The filly is a bay by Leonid Golden Harvest, by Pirate of Pen sauce. Mr. McLcmorc has decided to retire Meadow to Ihe stud a! the i hse of the present Juarez winter meeting. He did want 10 mate hi- noted mare I •■ Rock Sand for the lir-i two seasons off the tor:. but as that Epsom Derby winner has f , France -mh a plan is now impossible. He will -hip !•, r lo Ken tin kv next spring as he intended to. and if possil !■• he will breed he:- p. Voter, the site of Ballot. The Manager. Hilarious. Dolls and oii brilliant stake winner-, during the nexl two years. Lackrose has shown, in hi- recent starts here, a return to in- good racing form, and if all goes well with Ill- gelding thi- season he will no doubt prone ,.f the be-t winners o| the ve::r in the stable of W. E. Applegate. With Gllpy. Snrish am! I" Feel making i good showing, ami with Round th World giving every promise of soon coming back to the trail; in lx best form, and tne t v o- o.i : old in thi- string rated a- of good quality, this [jrm stable will liktiy „■ well up on the winning list her,- tIii — season.
