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PLANNING FOMEXT WINTER JUAREZ MEETING WILL OPEN ON THANKSGIVING DAY AS IN PREVIOUS SEASONS. Extensive Improvements to Be Made at Mexican Course During Comirif? Summer — Aftermath of Raccntly Closed Season. 1:1 Da-... T.-.x.. March -"». with the lackey Cluii Juarej mooting of 1912-13 a matter of recent in- tory. attention is already being directed to i he pro-p., i- rot .in equally successful racing sea-en lure in xt winter. Ii is conceded on all sides thai the meeting which came li a close Inn- last Sumhv left little w In- desired in tin- way of i- --iil I -. The racial was Iran and excellently conducted throiigh-uiit ill.- long stretch of 109 days thai the inc. ding nm. I be liii.nii iui results were satisfactory to the management, the money hung ; 1 1 ■ far the borsemcu was ,r. utiiiiiall.v well distributed, the betting ring had a healthy unpeet frvai start to tinish and tbe big -i-iiwd of racing Mthualasts who spent tbe winter here found little to cwmptaia of on am neon . That the Majority of the visitors who enjoyed tie-racing here 1 1 1 i — season will rrtura next fall. l« aether with many other* who have been satisfied by the developments ..i the past seaeoa that Juanv. ai in ; has attained ■ pcrmanrnn of which they formerly were skeptical. It has been aunoiinci -d that the meeting of next winter will ln-in ni Thanksgiving Din. which will fall on Thursday. Novem-her 27, and that il will run for oae hamdred or inov lavs, as usual. During the coming summer ex-teaaive Improvements, designed to enhance tbe com fort of patrons of tin snort, will be undertaken m tune s thai everything will he in tin-too conditio*] for tbe re-opening of the course. The enlargement of i In- betting enclosure, which proved utterly Inadequate to the demands made npoa it by the bacrensjd patronage of 1 1 1 i-, season, is one of the things for which plans bave been made. D also is planned to add lo the stable see illations in such a way thHt stalls will be available for the boosing of l._»M horses. Daring the past M.rnii it was found ne "9 sari to provide for over BOO horses and the management anticipates thai the number that will have »o u cared for next Reason, will be appreciably r greater. . . . I". D. Weir intends to ship hi- hand of winning two rear-olds, a- well as his older horses, to Lexington uimiii the arrival of the stable in Rentacar. Mr. Weir would not have cared if raring at -luai ■ ■■/. bod extended into April, as bis racers are in flrst-riaas shape and he savs |M. would not want to he in Kentucky nay spring for more than two weeks lie fore racing begins there if he could stay on and race oyer a track like Juarez ami under climatic cimi ditluas which have prevailed here during meal of the spring. Mr. Weir, from now on. will be a staunch patron of the Juarez course. Next season he will return lure with a bigger and better string tbuu he raced here this season aud if tie- unbeaten old Rosebud tin ii- out a MM Kentucky Detby probahBlty tlie crack coll will winter here ami do some racing during next seasons meeting ai Juarez. A. B. Bpreckels, of California, has shipped seven of his horses lo Churchill Downs in charge of trainer t . W. Carrol] to race on the Kentucky tracks tlii- soring and summer. They are all two-year-oMs with the exception of tin three-year-old. Amity, a recent winner at Juarez. The Spnokols racers wen- not shipped from James on the Louisville special Tle-v went mi a car with the stable ol Karl 1 .1 ii in 1 1 and T Carrolls Kentucky Derbj candidate. Weyanoke. The Lionel I shipment com piised Vmlr. Osaide. Kitty .. Maddallena and others. The Snreckela trainers thinks well of several of the two-year-olds he is shipping to Kentnck and does not in licve that the have yet shown their heal tone They are all of the type that am a little late in maturing. Prank Keegan, mperintemlettt of the Tuarr ■ and Chlirchill Down- tracks, i ■inaiind leu- for a few lavs alter tin- meeting was over in order to leave tin- bbs planl at .liianz in tbe l» -i |i — i t ] -. ■ eoiidilioli for the MM pcrio.i ..| summer Mleuess. Tbe ImiHrovemetils i ..nteiiiplali d for th.- •■iiclo-ui" ioi the 1013-1914 - • a son will lie undertaken early next fall. Keegan kept tip- .Iuare7. track in excellent condition all season and few horses with anything like sound lee*, bave gone wrong. He will go from here direct to flu- Churchill l»owii- course and at ootce begia Hie work of setting th« big Lnwisvilb* plant in perfect condition for the spring meeting opening on Mhv io. l.ik • everyt»ouj else, be thinks this sea-anas Keniilcl. IstIij will he ll ri-ate- ever inn and he intends t.i have the track in condition i for the making of a nen llerb record. Keegan i is ..i f the hardest ol wiHrfcers and has the repu tntion of cunaj H ting everything he undertakes. Me i- also one of the most impute r of track ofticial-■moog the horsemen. idle Tiile. James Rriaans Kentucky naks candl dale, ha- been deilared ..ill of that event and will not he able lo race again before the coming fall. in the opinion of her trainer. In her la-t race here in tillv wis lumped on and her left ankle was badly Injured It i- a trouble that will not he permanent, but si tlx name time on.- which will 1 tak lime to rei ly. Since the mishap the dangb- tvr of Siiperman has out been out of ibo stable sod aftet examination bv a veternarian it was ile elded to tbroa i,.-r out of training until fall. Idle Tab- won three races here and Mr JnlJiii thought ; xvell of her dak- ehaaecs. Idle Talc i- one of t lie largrsl three-vea! i, his iii training. laarea lorkeys who will ride In Kentucky this ■ stirlng Include . Uross .1 McCahe. p. Hill. . Pea». A Neylon. K. Estep. J. Callaban. I". Teaban. I. I.ofiu-. B. Hteele J. Henry. C. Borel. D. Nho| and j c Burlingame. Several prominent owners has i rteavoreil to secure trainer It. N. Vestals con-en: to . l.t the colored rider. .1. Murphy. :» to Kentucky mid if In- eo i -b;.h-- not to o to Coeor dAlene w Hi the Clark stable next inimth. be maj deckle to k*l | Muipby ride at Louisville ami I.atonia Before bis -ii tension two years az l Murphy rmhi well, and [ recently has shown in race* all his old time skill. If. i- tin* only successful ...loied locker now ridii,.-. C. T. Patterson. wb«i lralu for -F. E. Madden I anxiiiis to secure the net Ices t orkej C. Gross to , ride i ne of the youugsters that will carry the Mad den Colors in the Keutuek.i I : i. - -. |«-; -" Futurity this spiinu. The oftei t.i Cm-- clime uiib the Information that If his riding in Islington waa satisfactory ■ that the master of Hamburg Place would empki.i hu.i , for Ike test ..f tie rear, i;,..-- replied that be would nde f.i Mi. Madden this spring at Lexington, if the Keiituckv ni--i..n grant* him a license. Coldiinii raced here ihi- season at t arently as good I ■a ever si eiiii years obi. The idstei to Labold has I m -ii twentj Ive races during the oast live neneom. _h ntol upon the occasions of bei last mreeaae* it .luaiez she ran -ix fnrlonga in 1 lu,|:. ami 1:12*.. . respectieel] . P. Veoman, who m»w owns Hold tiim. -its tho greatest store bj his old mare. He l|... several time* refused tempting offers for her la i trade for rooager racers, ami recently .-u refused I ■ ea-h offer that was ennsideied almve lier value 1 for racing purposes. Several breeders have i.-t longing eyes on her. The daughter of ioM Heels is of the ideal III" for -tud parposes.
