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JUAREZ MEETING LIKELY TO BE EXTENDED. Sport Is Prospering at Mexican Course and March 30 Probably Will Be Closing Date. LI la-o. Tex., February 8. Practically all of. the stars assssNi the mni m more horses now quartered at the Juares track will do considerable racing iliis BBOath and next Inline lilt- wind-up 0l the 1912-1913 season. Phe cracks thai have not as yet need will all be started a ti.ne ii two here as a preliminary to spring racing in Kentucky. The season bete, though weD in its second half, i- not yet at us height, and hardly an afternoon passes without a dosen or more new faces of prom linni persons being seen on the gTiraml These recruits are stlj eastern visitors on their way home from California and Mexico City, and after a day ir two sp m here, the] proceed and others take their places. Not a regular of any Importance was drawn away by the opening of the Charleston meeting, not will a stable leare here for ihc South Carolina course this Whiter, in all probability. Though it is too early as y» i for an panels I announcement, it is reported that the present Juarez meeting will not close I his season until Sunday. March 30, which •will make a total f lit! lacing days. The 100 duyj always set for the racing here would bring the present nieeiing to I I lose .n March 14. this early date being due to the fact that racing this winter !:us beiu conducted every day in the week. It is a we!! known fait iliat none of the horsemen wooM care to leave here so early as the middle of March, and as Manager 1 .1. Winn has always advertised 100 or more day s of racing for Ibis meeting and everything is moving along like well oiled machinery, it is regarded as a certainty that the meeting will he at bast extended to the date above noted and perhaps to the Sunday following. April 5. This will give an abundance of time for resting of horses going from lure in Kentucky for the Lexington. Loute-viib- ami l.atonia spring and summer meetings, even if the former track should open earlier than April 28, which is not at all likely. The presenl meeting at Juares has beyond doubt established tbe Mexico course as the leading winter race track of this country foe years to come. From now on. it will continue to grow more and more important as the years advance. J. A. Shannon has purchased Im" a private price from J. A. Secklngtoa the two-year-old liily Lovers lain, by Atkins Princess Tulane, by llis Highness. This lilly has only started one" ben- and then she ran unplaced, but she las shown well in private trials. She is Ihe second foal of her noted dam. L. 1. Doerhoefer, who weal home to Louisville last wee|x. niter spending mole than two BSOUtbs at the Jockey Club Juarez track, will al once take tip and begin galloping Jimniie Gill, Baron le Kalb. Tillies Nightmare, Ursula Thompson and George Karate, all ■■ which have been turned out in Ken tucky since last tall. Shelby West, his racing partner, ami the latters father, 1. at. West, who assisis in training the Doerhoefer and West stable, will remain al Juarez to race out the season with Cold of Ophir. Ursula Kmina. .lack Ellis and Senator James, and then take the string back home to join the other division of the stable at Churchill Downs. Mr. Doerhoefer will make no attempt to give the string in Kentucky am severe training until Mr. West returns to Louisville with the Juarez division. This Louisville stable has enjoyed a prosperous season here and grill be regular patrons of Juarez racing in future. Al Austin has decided to retire his trend race mares Florence A. and Marie Hyde to "tbe stud. A Texas breeder has been endeavoring to secure lie pair, but so far has not met the price Mr. Austin has set mi ihc daughters sf Handcuff and sain. If he does nol succeed ill disposing of ilieni before the present meeting is over, he probably will ship them to California and have them mated with Salva lion, the sire of .Mm Basey and other high class winners. The latter stallion i~ one son of the mighty Salva tor thai has made good in the stud. The speedy tilly. Mrs. Camp, has been tired for knee trouble by Dr. C. Cann. anil her owner. Frank Farrar. has decided to make no alteinpt to race bat until mid-summer.
